New Smyrna Beach Area - Indian River Lagoon - Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report

June 27, 2026

Summer has arrived…and…Welcome to the summer busy season in Central Florida! I was booked solid for May and June. July has a few days open last half of month. August is filling up as well before summer vacations wrap up. So don’t be waiting till the last minute to schedule a date! 

Everything is an option for us in the Indian River Lagoon and Mosquito Lagoon area as well as the New Smyrna Beach backwaters heading into the summer. We can find redfish, trout, and snook scattered throughout our backwaters and grass flats. Around Ponce Inlet big redfish and big snook are stacking up inside the Inlet and at the bridges at night. Tarpon are up and active in all the deeper channels and creeks around New Smyrna Beach. Gonna be a fantastic summer of catching lots of fish!

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May and June were strong months of catching snook in our backwaters around New Smyrna Beach and down into Mosquito Lagoon. When the shrimp were running, the snook were firing away! We caught snook by the dozens, with several fish over 30 inches the last couple months. They are still eating shrimp, but we are also catching them nearly every day on the flats and backwaters fishing live baitfish. Great to see after a really hard winter here in Central Florida. Big snook approaching 40” are hanging in and around Ponce Inlet now for the next few months for their annual spawn. They can be also found at the docks and bridges fishing through the night.

For the last month fishing has primarily been all about our redfish in and around Mosquito Lagoon. Big bull redfish over 40” have been chewing decent enough to catch a few each day. Had a few recently over 30 pounds, with almost all the others in the 20-27 pound range. Great fights on light tackle! The water levels for the last couple weeks are super low on the flats of the Lagoon and the creeks closer to Inlet. Redfish are schooled up in those areas and we are grinding the bottom off the boat getting to them! As a bonus we usually find some trout and a snook or two mixed into those schools. In some places we can sight cast redfish with flies, lures, or bait crawling down exposed shorelines. One the big grass flats redfish are waking around early morning in the wet grass with some tailing action through the morning. Been a fun month catching a bunch of redfish in a variety of ways and that won’t change till we get into September.

We’ve caught plenty of speckled trout in the Mosquito Lagoon area the last couple months. Lots of nice trout in the 18-26” range fishing live bait. The low water is working to our advantage lately as it’s got the big trout pulled out where it’s easier to catch them and our sizes of fish caught are trending bigger. Catching numbers vary how much time we spend doing it and what else we target for the trip. Could be anywhere from 10-40 trout a day. Got another 6 weeks or so where odds are good to catch a big trout though, then it just seems they get harder to come by..

Come see why this is my favorite time of year! I Don’t have any availability until mid July, but I have some dates the last couple weeks of July and scattered dates throughout August. Don’t wait till last minute, I stay booked up 4-6 weeks out. Text me or call me at 386-212-4931 or even send me an email to secure a date. Read my fishing charter page to view the top reasons why you should book your trip with me today! I look forward to fishing with you soon.