“Hook a Big Trout” By Terry Lacoss Late April and the entire month of May offers some of the best sea trout fishing of the year, especially for sea trout weighing over the five-pound mark. Large sea trout are often referred to as “Gator Trout”. Here large female sea trout will be preparing to spawn…
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Amelia Back Country Boats
NL- 18 Back Country Boating “Amelia Back Country Boating” By Terry Lacoss Without saying if you haven’t ever been grounded on a bar or oyster out cropping, you simply are not going to every enjoy Amelia Island back country fishing to the fullest. With this in mind, there are several types of fishing boats that…
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Big Bite Sheepshead
NL 18 Winter Sheepshead Bite “Winter Sheepshead Bite” The cooler water temperatures of Northeast Florida winter finds excellent eating and fighting sheepshead finds large adult sheepshead bunching up at offshore structures. Particularly where there are plenty of crustaceans growing on wrecks, broken concrete and similar bottom structures. The annual winter spawn is typically triggered by…
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Big Backwater Bite
“Big Backwater Bite” By Terry Lacoss After power poling down with both Power Poles and just within casting distance of a fishy Amelia Island boat dock, Seconds later Glenda Crosby was playing a huge “Gator” trout that literally amazed the nearby dock owner! “That’s the biggest trout I’ve ever seen caught around my dock,” the…
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