Cool weather HOT fishing!

This is my favorite time of year to be on the water. The fishing is as good as it gets around the mouth of the St. Johns river.

Over the last several weeks the fishing went from great to almost hard to believe!

Nice fat Seatrout to 5+ lbs., Yellowmouth, Flounder, Black drum and lots of nice Redfish have been on fire.

Also limits of very tasty Sheepshead have been chewin' at the big rocks!

I am running some very good winter rates, so be sure to check my website.

Nows the time! Lets go!

A big fish day!

I had Clayton and Mark aboard today. We were under the threat of rain all morning, but it never happened. Things started fast and slowed down just as fast. As Clayton and Mark picked up a few fish which were all nice, I tried some topwater. I caught 2 nice trout the bigger one about 3 1/2 lbs. Then Clayton ties into a whopper! After several drag smoking runs and a lot of dogging, we put a awesome 7 lb. gator in the net!

I go back to topwater and catch another trout, and like the time before the guys tie into another smoker! After the big runs and plenty drag pulling we put the net under a 6 1/2 lber! What a start!

As per before, I go back to topwater and Wham! A huge boil and fish on just burning the drag! And after a 20 foot run he pops off! I think it was a big red, actually I hope it was a big red, but I suspect it was an absolute monter trout........The only way I can console myself is to keep saying it was a red.

The guys continued to pick up one nice trout after the next. We got down to 1 more fish for the box with shrimp running low and very tiny, and the boys pull out a double to end the day! What a great time we had.

Now is the time to catch the trout of a lifetime!

Our final tally was: 15 keepers from 17"- 27"with only 2 @ 17 the rest were fat 19" fish.

The weather had me working!

I had John And Jenna out for some trout fishing this morning. With the wind howling at 10 knots at daybreak, I had my concerns about putting them on good fish. We took off upriver at 6:30 am, and after a pretty long ride we arrived at spot #1. We anchored up sent out a couple of shrimp and Bang, Bang both floats down and quick! Two nice speckled trout in the box, re-bait, back out and down they go again! A small trout and another beauty!. Then the wind and current got us all twisted around and out of position. I decided to change areas, and we were on the fish once again!

The action stayed great for the next hour, until someone came up on us and drove right over our spot!, almost running over our floats!




I never can understand how people can do that kind of stuff?

Anyway we continued catching nice trout only a little more sporadically.All in all a great day!


Final tally was 15 kept trout from 17" to 19 1/2" with 8 fish being between 19 and 19 1/2"! We released at least that many trout that were keeper sized. And we lost quite a few on the way to the boat. Using light wire circle hooks, you seem to lose some fairly well hooked fish. We also boated assorted Ladyfish and Bluefish. They went home to Atlanta with a big fish fry in mind. 2 overflowing 1 gallon bags of fillets....Now thats gonna be delicious!
This was Johns 40th birthday present from Jenna.







Happy 40th John!

Offshore with the boys....

I took My son and his 3 buddies visiting from college. We started in close as the weather guessers said the wind and seas would pick up. It was a gorgeous morning and the wind settled down to make for a flat sea.
The water was'nt to good looking colorwise and we poked through a few short snapper. We tried 3 spots a little further out, with the same results, more shorts........
We moved out another 5 miles and picked up 4 grouper and several better snapper. By now it was flat and beautiful! The only problem was, we brought absolutely no food (bad idea) So with 4 human eating machines getting very hungry, we bagged it and headed home (Singletons). This wasn't really a very serious trip, more just getting out and poking around.
Next week will be back to intense fish finding and catching!

I still have plenty of openings for the coming weeks, and the fishing will do nothing but get better. Spring is green light GO!

Spring is Springin' !

I fished the jetties yesterday with Dave E and his son Derrick.

We absolutely destroyed the trout!

After 30 or more fish on the float rigs, we switched over to soft plastics to catch even more than on live bait! AND the fish were much bigger!

We had quite a few fish pushing 4 pounds, and even the small ones were nice.

Now is GO TIME for Trout, redfish, drum and sheepshead. The weather seems to be leveling out to normal spring patterns.

I anticipate the fishing to be Red hot for the next month or so inshore. Then the cobia will start showing up! This is my favorite time of year, the only real problem will be "What do we want to catch"? As everything will be going off.

Spanish are starting to trickle in, But the real story is the offshore bottomfishing! This is one of the best spring bottom fishing seasons in a long time. Theres plenty of legal Red snapper to be caught within 15 miles of the beach. Also hit and miss grouper, but the fish caught have been really nice ones. Sea bass, Beeliners and triggerfish are also on the menu.

This is also the time to catch offshore flounder sometimes in big numbers, as the fish stage on the inshore wrecks preparing to move back into the river.

This is definatly the best time of year to be on the water.

Call now to book the best dates.

Also a side note: I will be offering offshore Butterfly jigging charters for experienced anglers. Come check out the new rage on the fishing scene.

Imagine the slammming strike of a toothy gamefish as you jig in 80+ feet of water! All I can say is you have to experience it to believe it! WOW!

Fall is in the air!

Wow! it seems like a major cool down this past week. I guess the upper 80's does seem cool after near 100 degrees for weeks on end.

The Tarpon fishin on the beach has been good this year. Fished jumped and landed on most trips. I've been tareting 30 feet of water off of Ponte Vedra beach using sugar trout for bait with much success with king, Tarpon,Sharks and even a Warsaw Grouper!

The Redfish are starting to move into the river with some stud "bulls"
in the mix. It will continue to get better and better in the coming weeks. Watch for a storm to trigger the mullet and shrimp run, it will be insanity on the water then!.

The trout fishing is picking up daily in the lower stretches of the river, as is the flounder fishing. On A recent trip we had 9 nice trout with the biggest 2 a respectable 21 & 22" .

Now is the time to book the primo fall tides for some great fishing!

Screamin' drags,
Capt. Bryan