How to get children interested in fishing “Cool Weather Sea Trout” By Terry Lacoss Many avid backwater fishermen are simply loving recent near record air temperatures that have plummeted local water temperatures. Certainly cooler water temperatures (72-degrees) signal the beginning of Amelia Island’s fall and winter sea trout season where trout weighing up to…
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Power Pole Down Fishing
“”Power Pole Down Red Fishing” Power Down Fishing By Terry Lacoss Making a long cast up a narrow saltwater feeder creek with the tide rushing in and a steady 20-knot wind on our Triton boat’s transom I felt a solid thud at the end of my rod tip. Immediately I reeled in my slack fishing…
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Creek Fishing
Locating a fishy creek depends on bait fish and structure too “Creek Fishing” By Terry Lacoss If you and your fishing companions are tired of trying to find a spot to fish in the surrounding Amelia Island backwaters, you need to tow your boat west and launch at one of several backwater boat…
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Redfish Bonanza
Large schools of redfish are now active at many of Amelia Island tidal rivers and bays during the last of the falling and the first of the flooding tides. We have had great success both casting "Clouser Minnow" flies and surface plugs, while we always have a livewell full of live shirmp as a…
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