Indian River Lagoon

The Indian River Lagoon is lots of action and has many different species ranging in size from 2 to 40 pounds! This fishing by nature is less technical than flats 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 for snook, redfish, trout, and small tarpon, to name a few.

Just a short drive south of Cocoa Beach, Sebastion, Vero, and Grant area have some spectacular flats fishing. If you are looking for that slam three ( redfish, trout, snook ) on top water, this is the trip for you. Anglers will find fish year round. Tarpon move into to the rivers during the months of summer and 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 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.

The lagoon also has one of the most diverse bird populations anywhere in America. Nearly 1/3 of the nation’s manatee population lives here or migrates through the Lagoon seasonally. In addition, its ocean beaches provide one of the densest sea turtle nesting areas found in the Western Hemisphere.

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.