Category Archives: Backwater Fishing

Plugging for Specks

Plugging for Specks

Cooling water temperatures and a massive run of mullet has triggered a fantastic sea trout Sea trout weighing to ten-pounds are typically taken during the cooler months of Fall, Winter and Spring. Casting minnow type plugs during the last few hours of the flood tide and the first few hours of the falling tide…

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reds in the grass

reds in the grass

With extremely high tides, good numbers of redfish running from 20-30 inches have been feeding in the spartina grasses on fiddler crabs, shrimp and crustaceans. Casting a god spoon, or led head with a Berkley Gulp plastic shrimp works best. Prepare for an amazing fight while strong swimming redfish bull their way into the flooded…

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Bull Reds Have Arrived

Bull Reds Have Arrived

With the approaching cool water temperatures and massive mullet migration, huge number of red drum are now holding at deep river structures, inlets and close to jetty rocks. Bull reds are hard fighting game fish and can weigh over the fifty pound mark! When a large concentration is located, multiple hook ups can make an…

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"Summer Sharks" By Terry Lacoss Some 45 fishing seasons ago, Jack Burling, daughter, Sue and son, Mike bordered Captain Jimmy Gavin’s 45-foot charter fishing boat, the “Lisa Ann”. The fishing adventure departed from Mayport’s Historic Monty’s Marina for a day of shark fishing. “We specifically targeted sharks and began our day by catching a…

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