I fished this morning with the Parks Jeff and Penny meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. We headed up the intercoastal then up the Nassau and around to Back River and set up fishing a stretch of  grass with the oysters just beginning to show on an outgoing tide. We had plenty of mudminnows and a few dozen live shrimp and they bo...

I wrapped my week up fishing with Frank and Joanne Wytiaz meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We had a baitwell full of mud minnows and live shrimp and before we left I threw a cast net for a few dozen nice finger mullet. We then headed up the Nassau River and made our first stop at Spanish Drop and began working the bank. There was...

When I met Jeff Adams his son Beau and father-in-law Charlie up at Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp this morning I mentioned that I had live shrimp and mud minnows for bait and young Beau set me straight - Potayto's-Potahto's - it's all the same! And it pretty much was! We eased out of Eagans Creek and made a run up the river into the Jolley a...

I fished this morning with Mathew Massey and his daughter Sutton meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We made the short run up the intercoastal and into the Nassau before pulling up at a large drainage to toss jigs and mud minnows. First cast produced a pretty good cast and then both angles were catching fish. They landed a couple of...

Dibs and Dabs was what my late mother-in-law called the spread of leftovers she'd put out for dinner. But today I was calling the fish we were catching dibs and dabs - we caught a handful of small but feisty Redfish a Catfish a hard fighting Jack Crevalle a Black puppy and a handful of some rather large (for here) Mangrove Snapper. I fished with...

I fished with the Burke group today Marvin and Nicholas and Mason meeting them out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp on a tide that had been going out for about an hour. We made a quick jump across the river to the corner of Back River and fished float rigs and live shrimp and minnows along a stretch of grass and I thought for sure we'd get a fi...

I fished with the Ankney group today - Blake and Cooper and Keira meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp. We eased out of Eagans Creek and made our way over to the outside of Tyger and worked the bank good with shrimp and jigs. Although we had nibbles here and there we had no takers. We then ran around to the the Jolly and fish...

After a few days off I was back fishing today with Garland Clark and his son Kris meeting them down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning. We made a short run up the Nassau and pulled up at Spanish Drop and began fishing the edge with jigs and minnows and shrimp and finger mullet. Kris kicked it off pretty early when he battled a strong Jac...

I fished today with Tom Keller and his grandsons Tripp and Bryson meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp on a tide that was high and coming in. It was already hot as we eased out of Eagans Creek and made our way over to Bell River to set up along a point with plans to drift float rigs and mud minnows along the grass. Tripp got...

We switched it up today fishing out of Old Town Bait and Tackle ramp- The bite had been fairly slow down south the last couple of days so we decided to fish north. I met Ray Pinkston and his son Jack early and we eased out of Eagans and made our way over to the outside of Tyger where we set up with float rigs and mud minnows drifting on teh first...

I met Len Pelletier his son Scott and grandson Kevin down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning and as we cruised up the intercoastal the water was like glass it was so calm. We made our way up to Pompano Point and unlimbered the float rigs baited with live shrimp and mud minnows that I had caught at the dock. The calm conditions didn'...

There was as slight hiccup in the bait supply the last couple of days and luckily I got a text from AIBT last evening about there being no bait to buy this morning so I made plans to get up a bit earlier than usual loaded my gear and some old frozen shrimp and headed to the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. After launching the boat I set out a minnow trap...

We shook things up today and did something different - after meeting John Raker out at Goffinsville Park we headed east out to Nassau Sound and found some structure to fish with jigs and mud minnows. I think it was John's 3rd cast when he hooked up and battled a keeper sized Black puppy Drum to the net. The tide was still going out and we had goo...

Another beautiful if not hot day of fishing today!  Boy it got hot!  I had met Beau Hopkins and his three kids Blakely Chandler and Brantley early up at Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp and with a live well of mud minnows and the last 2 dozen live shrimp the shop had we eased out of Eagans Creek. Our first stop was over in Lanceford Creek fishi...

We probably had the prettiest day today that we've had in the last two weeks! I had met Bart Mathews down at Sawpit Creek on a tide that was low and just starting in - we had clear skies and just a very little breeze as we headed up the intercoastal. We made our way up to the mouth of Jackstaff and turned into the current and began pitching jigs...

It always makes my heart warm when I see a grandparent taking their grandchildren fishing and today was just such a day. I still have vague memories of fishing in Lake Sante Fe with my Grandfather - we were Crappie fishing on the bottom out deep with minnows. I don't remember if we caught anything but I do remember the trip. I met Len Pelletier a...

We did our third windy day in a row today when I met John Cipriani and his brother David out at Goffinsville Park. The wind stayed in the 15-17mph range - I'm about over it! But the Cipriani brothers were up to the challenge so we first headed over to Pumpkin Hill and fished a stretch of flooding marsh grass on a tide that still another hour or s...

We've got some wind kicking here at Amelia Island! When I spoke to Andew Perrin last evening I warned him that we'd be bucking the wind today if they wanted to give it a try. But he and his son Sam were willing to brave the wind so we met up at Old Town Bait and Tackle and after easing out of Eagans Creek we already had 15mph winds. We made our...

I know it's difficult to tell conditions when were at our homes - we see the flags flapping and the trees swaying and think this is such a nice day   but when you get out on the river with 17-18 mile/hr it can make for some difficult fishing even in the back water. I was hoping we'd have an early window of lower winds this morning when I met Cha...

I was back to work today fishing with Chris Sneed and his buddy Chuck meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early. We eased out of Eagans and then ran up to the outside of Tyger and set up a drainage to pitch jigs and minnows on a tide that had been going out for just and hour. It didn't take long before we got bites then Chr...

I THGUGHT I was launching at Sawpit Creek this morning - when I got down there the tide was up so far - all the way to the bend in the curb- I turned around and headed back north to meet Glenn and Patti Langford up at Old Town Bait and  Tackle. The water was way up in the grass when we made way out of Eagans Creek and over to the outside of Tyge...

Boy what a pretty day we had today - no real wind temperature in the high 60's and partly cloudy skies to greet us when I met Tim Parker and is son Wes out at Goffinsville Park boat ramp early.  And it was just a short run down the river to Broward Island where we set up to fish with jigs and live shrimp on  atide that was low and just coming in...