JETTIES:
Well, here is where the action is right now. I'm talking bull redfish, slot-sized redfish, black drum to 17 pounds and loads of sheepshead up to 8 pounds so far. If you want action and lots of it then head to the Mayport Jetties. There is also whiting, nice, legal-sized black sea bass, ring-tail porgies and black margates and guess what, there are a few nice sized croakers around too. Yes, the action picked up at the rocks just like an early Christmas present. So get em while the action is good. Now the sheepshead should be around until around two weeks after Christmas, (unless we have a mild winter) and they'll head offshore then they'll be back the first week of March just like clockwork, every year on time. If we have a mild winter and the water temperatures do not drop under 60 degrees then we can catch them throughout February again. The black drum should stick around until about the first week or so of May but not as thick as they are now. We're catching our limit including the one per person over 24". So far up to 17 pounds each. You just can't beat that. A few flounder are still around but not like a few weeks ago when we were catching 15 to 37 per day averaging 4 to 7 pounds each. This was the best flounder run I've seen in 4 to 5 years. THAT was a blast!
RIVER:
Bull reds, a few slots and a few croakers left and some pretty nice spotted trout are being caught in the rivers around Jacksonville. Nice yellow mouth trout are hitting best on the outgoing tides on cut croaker. I've seen them to 4 pounds so far and for yellow mouths that's nice. Whiting in the sandier areas of the rivers including the St. Johns, Ft. George Inlet and Nassau River. Black drum around the mouth of Trout River, around the Dames Point area, the White Shell area, the docks at Sister's Creek and at the Little Jetties. Sheepshead on the rocks and docks in the rivers and the older the docks the better they are. Flounder here and there but not in abundance.
CREEKS:
Now here is some fun fishing. The reds have been schooled up in tight areas lately and we've been seeing schools of 15 to 30 fish per school. Now you just gotta love this. I even took my friend Larry Finch out to check out the schools and he's fished here for about 30 years now and he even said he's never seen anything like that. Since the wind has calmed down, finally!, we've been seeing more and more reds in the shallows and that's pretty exciting. Spotted trout are getting better and better in the creeks and they're hitting top waters real good now. If you haven't caught these guys on some top waters you just don't know what you're missing. Spotted trout are just built for top water lures. A few flounder are still being caught but in the creeks most of them are pretty small, especially after this year's fall flounder run we went through.
SURF:
My surf fishing buddy tells me there are so many black drum in the surf right now that he can hardly catch any whiting or pompano so he traveled down south of St. Augustine and caught a few pompano and some whiting down that way but then the drum moved in down there also. I hear the Jacksonville Beach Pier anglers are catching loads of whiting and some black drum along with bluefish and a couple of pompano.
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