We had a beautiful day to kick off the week today - clear skies and only a bit of wind. After picking up Gary Yasuda his son Allen and David Vice out at Oyster Bay we made the run over to the Tyger logs and fished jigs and live shrimp to the bank on a tide that had been coming in for a couple of hours. We didnt' get a whole lot of bites but Gary...

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It looks like I wrapped my week up before our annual Shrimp Fest fishing with Harry Purnell and his fishing partner Terry. We met down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and headed up the intracoastal then up the Middle River and around to Pumpkin Hill to catch the last of an incoming tide. I had high hopes for this spot knowing that some big Trout...

The weather was a but grungier this morning misting when I picked up David Vice and his fishing partner Greg over at Oyster Bay early. We headed back down Lanceford Creek and made our way up Bell and thru Tyger to make our first stop on the outside of Tyger to fish float rigs and live shrimp on the first of an outgoing tide. That first spot didn'...

...but not today! The water temperature is over 70 now in the backwater I'm starting to see bait and bonnetheads and saw our first Roseatte Spoonbills yesterday - the fish bite is surely going to turn on just any day. But today we struggled a bit to even get bites. I had met Josh Jenkins down at Sawpit Creek on a beautiful morning and after runni...

What a great week we are having - the weather is great and the fish catching seems to be picking up. Today I met David Bolton up at his place on Lanceford Creek and along with his grandkids Ruth and Michael we made our way back around the corner to try some jig fishing up under some dock pilings on a tide that was going out and still had an hour...

Luckily we are having some great weather this week. The fish catching is not on fire but I can almost feel it trying to heat up. Today I met Dick Conley and his visiting from Boston son-in-law Hugh and grandsons John and Paddy down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp mid-morning. We made the run up the intracoastal up the Nassau and made our way to ou...

Yesterday we had high winds and dropping temperatures while today we had almost no wind cooler but real sunny- an ideal day. I met Henry Ross and his fishing crew Jon and Jeff up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle ramp. We eased down Eagans Creek and made our way over to the river then  up it to fish some docks on the first of incoming tide. We wer...

It was one of those Chamber of Commerce days with clear skies sunshine and only a slight breezewhen I met Jeff Key and his fiancé Sally down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning. The gnats were bad at the dock but after we made our way up the river we never saw them again. Our first stop was up at Pumpkin Hill where we drifted float r...

Monday Cancelled. Tuesday Cancelled. Wednesday Cancelled. Thursday Cancelled. That was some crazy wind we had all week but today it calmed down to 12mph at launch hour rising to 16mph by the end of the trip. But my guests visiting from (the windy city go figure) Chicago were game to go fishing today and so was I so we met down at Sawpit Creek bo...

The way the bite has been non-existent lately I was even more worried when I stepped out this morning and saw an almost full moon. But I've been thinking that the bite has to turn sooner or later and why not today? When I met Steve Locke and his fishing buddies Jason and Todd out at Goffinsville Park I did give them the sad news of poor fishing l...

I gotta be honest - It's kinda of a tale of two opposites: Absolutely beautiful weather but terrible fish caching in the back waters for the last couple of weeks. And today was no exception - clear skies sunshine very little wind (at first) but the fish have lockjaw. I had met Jimmy Miller and his two sons James and Henry down at the Sawpit Creek...

Those Chamber of Commerce days just keep rolling on..just in time for the Spring Break visitors to enjoy their time here at Amelia Island. We had clear skies mild temperatures and only a slight breeze (yes the gnats were a problem) when I met Allison Olguin her father Larry and her son Anderson up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp. We eas...

Another beautiful day and....slow bite. Sunshine mild temperatures and clear skies greeted John Raker and I when we met out at Goffinsville Park this morning and the sand gnats seemed to like it! But we got underway and we skimmed over water like a glass surface to get to our first stop around at Seymore's Pointe where we went with float rigs an...

We had a beautiful morning today to kick off the week! I met David Vice and Robert Stettner up at Old Town Bait and Tackle on a tide that had just hit high - the sun was up we had clear skies and only a slight breeze to keep the gnats off. After easing out of Eagans we made a run over to the outside of Tyger and fished a marsh line with float rig...

I attended the NSFA social the other night and comparing notes with other anglers the consensus was the catching has been slow lately and today was no exception. Luckily I had some guests with good attitudes and happy to be out on the water here at Amelia Island. I had met brothers Don and John Muzursky down at Sawpit (after a winding drive taki...

We had some serious fog out there this morning! I had met Don Walters and Alex Bournias up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle at sunrise but we had to putter most of the way down the intracoastal to get to our first spot - we could see about 50 yards. But when we got to a likely looking dock on a tide that still had a couple of hours for it to hit...

What a beautiful day!  We waited and went this afternoon - sunny skies and it had warmed to shirtsleeves temperatures and had just enough breeze to keep the gnats off. I met Eric Stevens and his fishing partner Gary out at Goffinsville Park and with a baitwell full of live shrimp we left the dock and headed over to Seymore's Point and set up at a...

Another beautiful morning greeted us down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp when I met the Crane Island Boys -Dick Conley David Gray Henry Ross and his son Stephen. The gnats were swarming us at the ramp but after that initial run they weren't too bad. We eased up to Spanish Drop and worked the exposed shell bank on a tide that still had about an hour to...

Boy what a beautiful day today - it was in he high 60's when I launched at sunup and when it did come up there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Almost zero breeze did bring out the No-Seeums but we had spray for that! I met John Fredericks and his fishing buddy Dan Forsch down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp and we made a quick run up the intracoastal and i...