If you’re a boater whose life has been saved by a life jacket, share your survival story. The winning entry will receive a $1,000 shopping spree at West Marine®!

All eligible entrants will receive a NSBC boating safety item valued at approximately $5.00 and might have his or her entry included in a future edition of the book “Saved By the Jacket” or on a boating safety Web site!

Visit our web site at http://www.safeboatingcampaign.com/09contest.htm for entry details. Remember - you only have u… Continue

On Wednesday the U.S. Coast Guard released the 2008 boating safety statistics, reporting a rise in recreational boating fatalities.

Routine and consistent life jacket wear should be a part of all water activities. You can make a difference by choosing life jacket wear as the ”Number One Safety Measure” in the event of a boating accident. By always choosing to "Wear It!" you can enjoy safer activities on the water throughout the entire year. Please share this message with your family and friends… Continue

Tried some fishing at the beach out by Ormond by the Sea. Sunday morning around 9:00am to 12:00. It was a calm out going tide and blazing hot. We tried fishing in the deep close to shore areas using some peeled shrimp and sand fleas we caught. The fleas did alright at first we caught one whiting then they just stopped. So we decided to wade out to the sand bar about 200 feet off the shore. Tossed my line out got a hit in the first 3 mins. So I make the 200 foot walk back to shore dragging the po… Continue

Living here in Edgewater, FL a stone's throw from the Lagoon, it is easy to think about faraway places. Not Capt. Drew Cavanaugh - a member of Castaway Place. He has a love affair going with Mosquito Lagoon and writes about it often on his own page here on the site.

If you want to learn more about Mosquito Lagoon fishing, go to Capt. Drew's page.

If you want to contribute your own thoughts about Mosquito Lagoon, please do it here in the blog topic.

Capt. Drew Cavanaugh
January 20, 2009
Mosquito Lagoon - Report

With the recent snaps of cold fronts that central Florida has been having the fishing has snapped too. It has snapped into a good thing, winter red fishing on the Mosquito Lagoon is here! By this I mean it is changing and you too should change your tactics. A sunrise start is not always the ticket.

When cold weather moves into the area the fishing on the lagoon tends to change a bit, for the good and even sometimes the GREAT! The f… Continue