Sunday, November 29, 2015

11/29 - I be yer Huckleberry!





























1st Jetty Trout of the winter season.....they always make it by Thanksgiving. But sometimes I can't for the seas and customers non-sealegs.




























BEAUTIFUL 3 pounder.....told ya the assault has begun.



























Moved inshore for more sweethearts.



























On a "home-made" Clatterbrat lure.



























Two, liked it. Very much so.



























was seduced on the "BLING" ROD & REEL.



























More the Merrier, I say! (Trout that is)




























I LIVE FOR THIS RIGHT NOW.  I PAY MY DAMN DUES ALL STEAMY SUMMER LONG, WITH THE ABSENCE OF ALL GOOD FILLET'ABLE FISH INSHORE. I SWEAT DOWN TO MY BVD'S, DEAL WITH KID AFTER KID, JULY THERMO-CLINES, RAIN FROM HELL.

SO DON'T EVEN ASK IF SHEEPSHEAD FISH. I TROUT FISH, IF YOU CATCH A SHEEPSHEAD, THAT'S NOTHING BUT BYCATCH ABOARD THE JETTYWOLF!  

11/28 - Time for an all out "Float-rig" assault

Today, was about like yesterday..."lots of small fish" from up river. And Mill Cove about as dead as I have ever seen it so far this fall.

What's to blame?  Probably me for trying it again this morning.  It's amazing how the fish can get so stacked up in there and then a few days later, ZIP!

It seems like yesterday to me that I went in there with Bob & Carol and we cleaned house











Plus Reds, Drum and a bunch more Trout.

IF the weather would ever lay down I'm sure the Trout have arrived at the jetties. It usually takes till the day after Thanksgiving when I find them in the area. But I haven't been out at the inlet in so long because I just wasn't up to fighting the 20-25 knot winds with small craft advisories!

ONLY one guy on Facebook told me he caught his limit of jetty trout, as he went on Thanksgiving day. And he had to of fished way inside the North rocks, and I believe that's what he said.

NOT a single other person has shared a report with me.....But then again, I put all this out there almost every day.  (excluding Traveller Bob of course who fished with me on the 27th, he's finding great Trout. But not at the jetties of course.)

From here on out It's gotta be assault time. But it doesn't feel like it being so damn warm!! 

Heading out again on the 29th and even the 30th. And my 2nd Holiday run is over.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

11/27 - WENT DEAD on us....

Had good ole regular aboard today, "BOB the TRAVELER". Tried the kitchen sink on them, threw the tackle box in the water. Killed 8 dozen live shrimp.....Caught two Trout, one for Bob and one for me that were keepers.



























The full moon or something had the fish completely off the "feed bag" for us. Yeah, we caught loads of small fish, but that was it really.

NOTHING compared tp this past week of pure 100% USDA mayhem, which I was getting used too very easily.

Caught the largest Trout of the day while doing R&D on a home made lure from Skip at www.clatterbrat.com - who sent me some lures to try.
YOUTUBE CHANNEL:  https://www.youtube.com/user/bloodknot101

Got the largest on the Clatterbrat "Jigshad".


















































Let's see........we float-rig fished, we fished shallow using corks and a shrimp, we threw jig-n-shrimp combo meals, I threw plugs, I threw the Jigshad, we both threw Slab spoons, and Nada!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many small Sand Trout and not even enough Specks and just one pup redbass and two small Black Drum, and we gave it hell all day. While in the river as the coast was hit hard with Small Craft Advisories!   Which will continue till Monday.

So yeah, the Jetties are out for me, and I have charters till Monday.
All I can do is keep plugging on and staying with the river fishing, till I can get out to the rocks and give it a try.  Most people can't take the rough water at the Jetties so I don't even try anymore, when it's questionable.

Hope it turns around to pure mayhem again. That was too much fun.

My favorite TV show host sent me his t-shirt (or actually his wife Julie did) He's too busy catching cooler fulls of TROUT in Louisiana


Wednesday, November 25, 2015

11/22 - REDFISH Jacksonville November








GOTTA LOVE IT....yes this way more fun that sitting on the channel edges using all those heavy sinkers and heavy tackle.

C'C'mon and git you some. Plus so much more.

Two persons is the best quality trip you can do.

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Monday, November 23, 2015

11/21 thru 11/23

11/20: the TWO Ken's:

I ditched the bottom tackle and went up river and found perfect water. On the 21st while catching Trout on a rock pile we pulled up a 6 pound FRESHWATER Catfish, a Channel Cat. That right there tells ya, here's yer sign. This water is perfect. Not so damn salty. The fish want this kind of water.

But the highlight was on the 21st, we no sooner got on a spot and were fishing along and catching Yellowmouth Trout about 12-13" when Ken's rod bows over and he looks like he's fighting a pup Redfish. Nope it's a GIANT CROAKER at 17 inches.








































































But the excitment didn't stop there.  On a jig-n-shrimp combo meal (1/4 oz.) in 8-10 feet of water he sets the hook and the drag screams...screams so fast I had to pull the anchor start the motor and chase this fish!  A 29 pound Redfish......on super L.T. (light tackle)

















































Yep, that huge mouth inhaled a little shrimp on a 14 oz. jig head and took off. An amazing catch on the lightest of spinning reels with not that much line on it. 20 braided line, and a 20 mono leader, with a jig with just a small 1.0 hook.

We also caught a few more Croakers, Lots of small Trout a few nice keepers, and of course the big fat Freshwater Catfish.  Ended the day by getting caught in a rain storm from hell. It rained so damn hard and we had no where to go. So we got all wet from our toes to our heads and suffered thru it catching 10 more good sized Yellowmouth trout on Slab spoons and berkey gulp patches.



11/22 -  HOT ROD Eduardo in the group of four

This was supposed to be a 2 person trip, but over night went to 4 persons, so I was a bit taken, because I have been fishing some tight places. Tight rock piles up river, that are full of huge snags and lots of fish if you can get thru them all. So I was apprehensive.

So I went to the same spot that the big Redfish came from yesterday. Four people can cast jigs there with minimal snags and I can stay sane while they catch versus get snagged.

Gave everyone a light spinner rod and reel and a 1/4 ouncce jig head and had a pile of live shrimp in the baitwell and cut them loose to do the catching.

Eduardo was a HOT ROD. And was using the rod and reel that caught the 29 pound Redfish yesterday. Well as he fought a big Red that I again had to let go the anchor and chase, the reel started grinding anbd skipping and was just Blown Out! From the day before's catch.  But he managed to keep the fish on .


























I think it was a 33 incher and about 14 pounds.  And then Eduardo catches a keeper Redfish at 26", while everyone else was catching small Specks and yellowmouth Trout.























THEN.......here comes a giant Croaker again!  Even larger then the one before. A 18 inch Croaker!



























There it is along side a nice 18 inch Trout and my big Fillet knife.























We get a few Sheepshead to include this massive 7 pounder.


























The weather on Sunday was not great. It blew all day long and was quite damp. But the guys boxed several keeper Trout, the Redfish, Sheepshead and a pile of yellowmouth Trout.




11/23 - Another 4 person trip in the BURNING COLD! (1st huge chill of the season)

I twittered this photos of myself while preping to head out for todays charter. YEP, full Gortons fisherman attire, and I still froze to death on the ride to the spot where we started todays trip.  I needed even more clothes, and some gloves would have been nice too.


























The ride up river was down right brutal at 40 mph against the cold air. And once on the spot the wind still blew, making it not that much warmer.  But the guys got into the Yellowmouth Trout fast and even picked up  small specks, when Nestor using a Capt Dave's Approved Slab Spoon set the hook on a fish that AGAIN smoked the drag some thing fierce. Heading straight for a Crab trap float on the surface.  So, I had to pull anchor AGAIN.........and chase the fish.





















Another 29 pounder that drug us out in the middle of the river, around a crab trap float, and fought to the bitter end on extreme light tackle.

While besting the record from last Sunday at a 21 pound Red, with this 29 pound Red being caught on a Capt Dave's Approved Slab Spoon and a piece of Fishbites.






Here's the slpab spoon (5/8ths oz.) used in 8-10 feet of water, with a 1/0 VMC Siwash hook
A NEW RECORD FISH ON A SLAB SPOON!!










































The rest of this freezing cold day consisted of just small Speckled Trout and yellowmouth Trout and not much else. Guess it's because the full moons just a few days away and the cold front may have shut down much of the bite. Not sure what the deal was. I had the guys on slab spoons and jig-n-shrimp combo meals using a 1/4 oz. jigs all day long.


IT WAS A PRODUCTIVE 4 DAYS IN A ROW. iT'S FUNNY HOW EACH DAY FOR TWP DAYS STRAIGHT WE HAD JUMBO CROAKERS, AND JUST ONE OF THEM, EACH DAY. aND EACH DAY ON THE SAME SPOT THERE WAS BIG REDS, SOME GIANTS UP IN 8-10 FEET OF WATER WHO HAD NO PROBLEM EATING A SMALL SHRIMP ON A JIGHEAD.

NEXT UP:
THE 27TH AND 28TH. AND THEN THE 30TH, AFTER TURKEY DAY.

HAVE A GOOD THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE. AND IF YOU READ THESE REPORTS WITH REGULARITY, LET ME KNOW. I'M ALWAYS CURIOUS TO WHO IS STOPPING BY MY DAILY REPORTS BLOG.

Friday, November 20, 2015

11/20 - Hooked Up Highlights: The Hooked Up Network & todays charter


My YOUTUBE Network (the Hooked Up network) Highlights and my customer Bob from Michigan's 21 pound Record Fish on my little Slab spoon jigs was included. Watch it here:











Had ole "grasshoppa" Chris M. aboard today with two buddies. In the river for Chris' first ever Sheepshead, and his first Gator Trout.  (Chris had a boat, chartered me also, plus we plain ole fished together. As I took him under my wing and tried to teach the boy something...Guess it worked, he was the "HOT ROD" today.


























































































































Redfish, Trout, Sheepshead, Black Drum, Flounder, Croakers, Puffers, you name it we probably caught it today!!!




















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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

11/15 - Trout & Redfish - November to Remember!!!!!




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Monday, November 16, 2015

11/16 - 24 hours later....DEAD

Had a father and son aboard today. Just 24 hours later after the way-lay we had yesterday on mega Trout. Went to the same areas, did exactly the same thing and it was DEAD!

Yeah we picked up a few pup reds and some really small trout. But there was a H-U-G-E difference.

WHERE THE HELL IS WINTER??????

It was another "bluebird" day. And we never even saw the EAST 10-15 kt winds till damn near noon. And it never was very cool. Just yet another 80 degree day.

The difference was yesterday was PERFECTION. Overcast, windy, cool, and looked like it might rain all day long.  Yep, it looked and felt like, W-I-N-T-E-R!!!

And I'm sure there was a massive barometer switch too. Which is never a good thing.

So being rigidity flexible I pulled up stakes from where we were and hot a rock pile in the river with the rising tide pushing good and hard.

There was some Trout on this spot, but for some reason not many my guys could catch. But I showed them, because I had damn near 3 in a row!  Finally they each put a Trout in the box, plus we tossed a few shorts back in the water that they caught, and headed back after using 7 DOZEN SHRIMP to catch 5 keeper Trout, about 10 shorts, a Mangrove Snapper, 10 shitfish bait stealers, and two pup reds.

After yesterday, this was a big pill to swallow, and it didn't taste good either.

Moral of this story.  WHERE THE HELL IS WINTER??????

Sunday, November 15, 2015

11/15 - Video to follow this report:

What a day.  These show only half of it.
Bob & Carol from BAD AXE, Michigan





















FIRST 1/2 hour, Specks and nice Yellowmouth Trout on my 5/8ths oz. Slab Spoons























LARGEST FISH ever caught on my 5/8ths oz. Slab Spoons!!!  21 Pound Redbass. Taken patiently by Bob on a light spinning rod and reel (ugly stik, of course)



 

























Carol with a sweetheart 18 incher, live shrimp and cork rig.



























Yours truly with a 24" GATOR!















































Bob with a 4 & 6 pound.......GATORS!
























Carol with her 20 incher...."In da box baby!"






















Yours truly, with a sweet 22 incher!




























Bob, with one of four Black Drum, to sweeten the fish box, even further.

We had plenty of 15 inchers and loads of 14 inchers. We had action from minute one to the last minute and last shrimp used.

Bob set a record on largest fish ever caught on a slab spoon, we had a box of gator Trout, who could ask for anything more?

NOT ME....



-video to follow, when I get time to put it together.

Friday, November 13, 2015

11/13 - Steppin & fetchin'

Had some really nice folks aboard to day from Wyoming.

The jetties were super nice, so we parked it on the south side of the south jetty and I had 9 year old Rachel hooked up on a fast Croaker bite on her first drop.  Such a cutey pie, and she loves fishing.
An absolute joy to have aboard.





















The Croakers were chewin so fast and furious I really only got off this one photo.
Later, we set out some cut baits in hopes of a Big Redbass, but ended up with a Nurse Shark and two stingrays instead, Litl' Rachel and I worked the Nurse shark together and her Dad Roger too the Stingers.  Have not really had much in the way of alien hover craft fish all summer and so far this fall. But today was my day for them, I guess.  Either way, you certainly don't see Nurse Sharks or Stingers in Wyoming!

Next up.....N.E. Winds and East winds coming.
2 persons for all my trips coming up so we're gonna Trout track in the river.

Stay tuned!

Thursday, November 12, 2015

11/12- BUSY FROM HERE ON OUT.



In rough weather having the cabin aft makes for a much more comfortable trip. Once you get the fishing grounds, just move the cabin out of the way...two boats in one!#coastalfishing#biggamehunting #elfincove #salmonfishing #sportfishing #pacificfishing #charterfishing#fishinglodge
Posted by Hard Drive Marine on Sunday, November 8, 2015


WHY I LOVE THE VERSATILITY OF A CUSTOM BUILT ALLOY PLATE BOAT!

BEEN HARD AT WITH MY DAD, DOING SOME SERIOUS RENOVATIONS TO MY HOUSE AS THE WEATHER IS PERFECT FOR IT. BUT IT ALL ENDS TOMMAROW......

BUSY, BUSY, BUSY. ONLY A FEW DATES LEFT FOLKS, IF YA WANT'EM YOU BETTER STEP UP TO THE PLATE.

NOVEMBER SO FAR HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT WARM WEATHER...TOO WARM IN MY BOOK.  AND WHEN IT'S LIKE THIS (CLIMATE CHANGE) I CALL IT THE 2ND SUMMER.  NOVEMBER STARTS SERIOUS TROUT TRACKING TIME.


11/12 - Skip's Saltwater Lures - Tail of 2 Jigshads




-Want to get a hold of him?
Go to: www.clatterbrat.com

And stand-by for fishing footage using the JigShads. Because I love a new video project.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

11/7 - Sometimes it's a "less tears" situation thats needed

I LOVE ME A YOZURI PLUG. TOP OF THE LINE QUALITY ALL THE WAY. BUT THERE IS TIMES WHEN WE DONT NEED ALL THE JAZZ, BECAUSE LOSS IS ENIVITABLE....BLUEFISH, OYSTERBEDS, BOULDERS.....ALL TAKE THEIR TOLL ON A WALLET.
CHARTER CUSTOMERS WHO MAYBE A BIT STILL IN THE ROOKIE STAGE, MAKE OFF CASTS, HANG A PILING, ALL KINDS OF STUFF HAPPENS..SO, HOW DOES A SMART FISHERMAN COMBAT ALL THIS AND NOT "CRYING LIKE A LITTLE GIRL" , WHEN THE LOSS OF A SUPER QUALITY YOZURI PLUGS LIFE IS AT STAKE????

Welcome in the China effect. Buy the same lure effectively, bulk and for the same price get 5 lures for the price of one.
Just proved in my last video that a cheapy Chinese diving plug even while filing with water catches fish over and over again.
Here is a comparison of a Yozuri Sushimi Jerk bait at $12.00 MSRP, and a (5) for $14.00 Ebay Chinese Jerk bait.
Sure there's a difference, sure there's a difference in "tank tested", and not tank tested. Quality control, paint and rattles.
But the fact is the cheap Chinese lure has the exact same demensions and will still catch a Trout, all the same. And if it comes with no rattles, thats a good thing!! Many times rattles aren't good. The fish are actually liking a silent approach much better. "I've had it happen".
Here's each side by side..one is $12 plus, one is $2.50

JERK BAITS:  Same size











$12.00 + MSRP (plus tax)












Not a complete "knock-off" but a very close resemblance, and same lure action overall.
$2.50 Ebay China lure cost. (No tax, free shipping)