"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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Summer Fishing
Kingfish offer excellent family fishing fun! "Amelia Angler" By Terry Lacoss Surf fishing is excellent during the summer and early fall fishing seasons when beach fishermen employ the right baits and fishing gear. Sand fleas are excellent baits for a wide variety of beach species including whiting, sea trout and redfish. Amelia Island beaches…
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Amelia Island Cobia
"Brown Bombers" By Terry Lacoss One of Amelia Island's favorite and best eating saltwater game fish have now arrived in our popular fishing waters. Cobia are not only excellent eating when prepared a variety of ways, but are also extremely colorful game fish when targeted on the fly, with lures and live/dead baits. Local…
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"Seeing Reds" By Terry Lacoss Seeing redfish has been a bit of a challenge recently for long time fishing buddies, Kent Poteat and Russ Heller. Granted fishing goes in cycles where red fishing is excellent for a period of time due to a successful spawn, abundant supply of forage foods, moon phases, water quality…
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