Located 45 minutes south of Cocoa Beach, and 90
minutes south/east of Orlando the Sebastion area
have some spectacular back water fishing. If you
are looking for that grand slam ( redfish, trout,
snook, and tarpon) in the back country, this is
the trip for you. Tarpon in the 10-60 pound range
move into to the back waters starting in April,
and leave as the first cold fronts start to show.
Snook fishing is very productive spring through
fall. The fall and spring mullet runs really get
these fish fired up. It's also a great place to
fish at night around the full moons in the summer
times for big snook.
The
Indian River Lagoon is lots of action and has
many different species ranging in size from 2
to 40 pounds! Back water fishing by nature is
less technical than sight fishing and allows the
angler to fish in the beautiful, calm waters surrounding
the flats and mangrove channels. The key words
here are calm water. This is similar to fishing
on a lake back home with very little chance of
rough water. These trips routinely produce great
fishing.
The Indian River Lagoon is North America’s
most diverse estuary with more than 2,200 different
species of animals and 2,100 species of plants.
The Lagoon varies in width from ½ mile
to 5 miles and averages 3 feet in depth. It serves
as a spawning and nursery ground for many different
species of oceanic and lagoon fish and shellfish.
Indian River, the main body of water, from the
north border between Volusia and Brevard Counties
along the western shore of Merritt Island, southward
to St. Lucie Inlet. Banana River Lagoon, an offshoot
of the Indian River, northward making up the eastern
shore of Merritt Island. The diversity of the
lagoon draws millions of boaters and fishermen
annually, which brings tens of millions of dollars
to Florida. red drum, spotted seatrout, common
snook, and the formidable tarpon are the main
gamefish sought by anglers in the lagoon system.
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