The tips of the sea grasses thrust upward, breaking the surface of the water like bristles in a brush. The sun is just stating to claw it’s way towards the horizon as darkness slowly fades. Nothing is stirring, the air so heavy with humidity it begins to shed water in the form of dew on the deck of the skiff.
The last of the rippling wake that marked your arrival has disappeared as you carefully selected the spun deer hair popper from the fly box. A mosquito buzzes in your ear as the loop knot cinches tight and the tag end is trimmed.
You toss the fly into the air from your outstretched palm like you would when ushering a wayward moth out of the house. Quickly, it snaps back out of sight as fly line draws it behind the skiff. A loop sails past your ear, followed by the humming bird sized, carefully crafted and trimmed fly.
The soft landing of the fly barely makes a dimple in the seam of deeper water where the grass is hidden from view.
As you strip line the water surges out of the way, bubbles crash over and trail behind the fly.
Thirty five feet from the bow of the skiff, a mound of water crests behind the slogging fly as a Mosquito Lagoon redfish charges in an effort to make it to breakfast.
As if a grenade had detonated, the water erupts in a torrent of foaming bubbles and mist and the line goes light. You drop the rod tip downward and to the side as your line hand firmly lays down a trio of strip strikes like the pistons in a Chevy small block.
Fly line dances and unfurls from the deck, hissing as it rips through the water and the guides.
Mosquito Lagoon Redfish
Mosquito Lagoon Fly Fishing Guide is happy to report that summer is here, the redfish are happy and the early morning top water bite is on.
Get out there and enjoy a day on the water, practice catch and release and leave Mosquito Lagoon in better shape than you found it.
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