Northeast Region

The month of September is the start of everything that is good here in North Florida. The dog days of summer are almost over, a welcome relief from an extremely hot and humid summer we experienced this past season. Anglers on the First Coast will be greeted with somewhat cooler and breezy conditions while on the water. September also marks the beginning of highly anticipated events such as the kick ...full report

Inshore and river fishing has been outstanding the last 2 weeks. Summertime fishing in the backwater creek systems can be challenging this time of year due to massive amounts of Baitfish, crabs and shrimp. Even with the abundance of bait, the Redfish have settled into more of an ambush mode, rather than chasing bait throughout the creeks. This make catching them easier. Cory S and two buddies had 15 ...full report

May has been a great month for Redfish. Despite a week of frustrating southeast winds, my clients had a blast catching upper slot Redfish in the backwaters around Jacksonville and St Augustine. There is a ton of bait in the creeks which have the Redfish stuffing themselves with small shrimp, minnows, crabs and Mullet. I've been keeping it simple with mud minnows on a ¼ oz jig. Cast along the oyster ...full report

Spring has sprung and the fishing is outstanding! Warm, sunny weather has the Redfish and Trout fired up. Lot's of small shrimp, minnows and Mullet have invaded the backwater creek systems here in Northeast Florida. Last week, my good friend Lee Land spent a couple days with me on the water. We found several Redfish aggressively feeding around low tide. Lee sight casted and landed 3 nice fish using ...full report

Large schools of Redfish continue to patrol the backwater creek systems here in Jacksonville. Since the water temperature is cold, the packs of Redfish are usually hunkered down along oyster beds. It can be pretty easy fishing, or I should say "catching" once the schools are located. Last week during the last of the falling and first of the incoming tides I had outstanding trips of over ...full report