Tuesday, December 29, 2015

12/29 - Sheepshead, December's heat, KastKing Braid

12/27 & 28th: UN-seasonably, UN-seasonal...

Speaking personally. Not for a single other soul. This really sux!  I'm sweating at 6am in December while putting the boat in the water because I mistakenly wore a LONG SLEEVED T-SHIRT!


Sunday and Monday:

Sunday had us at the Jetties float-rig fishing and it was rough and my crew could barely stand it. We caught I believe maybe 5 Trout, and it really wasn't worth sitting anchored in it. And I knew Monday's crew certainly wouldn't handle that kinda of slop, so we never even bothered.

So Sunday we ran way up river, after trying numerous other places at the jetties that were dead.
Yep, more Trout but all small ones. But the Jig-N-Shrimp combo meal seemed to be the ticket.
With two kicker fish, a 2 pound and a 8 pound Sheepshead off a underwater rockpile.





















After Sunday, I could tell Monday was doomed......all day we had a super flood tide with a HOT S.E. wind blowing pretty hard. So Monday ended up being a super Flood tide with HOT air blowing even harder from the due south.

Due SOUTH??????

In December we should have NW, N, and NE winds.....cold winds too. Not hot south winds.
Monday turned out to be a complete disaster. Bait stealers is all my 3 person crew could connect with if they could even get a shrimp to stay on the bottom for more than 30 seconds. It was unbelievable!
Jig and shrimp is what we fished from Mayport to Mill Cove to Mayport again.

When it's bad, it was actually more like horrible. The weather reports said winds 8 kts as we sat near the little jetties area and the winds (south) were blowing more like 20 knots plus. Go figure?

Rescheduled Tuesday (today), because I know one of my crew members very well . and there's no way I was risking taking him in this, with this lack of bite. So it turns out as usual, he can't go till the end of January!  Well maybe by then it won't be 85 degrees with a south 20 knot wind!

NEXT UP:
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
The forecast is for a wind shift and temp shift.
And fishing the crowds....AGAIN.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

12/26 - 1/2 way....

IT DOESNT EVEN FEEL LIKE WINTER TO ME AT ALL. AND WE'VE ALREADY REACHED THE 1/2 WAY POINT OF WINTER AKA: COLD WEATHER FISHING SEASON.  THE SEASON I DREAM ABOUT ALL SUMMER LONG, THE SEASON WHERE THE TROUT ARE CHEWIN' SO GOOD I GO BY MYSELF, JUST TO SLAY SOME FATTIES, AND COME HOME WITH ONE TROUT, BECASE THEY ALL WERE WELL OVER 20 INCHES.

MY PREDICTION IS SUMMERS HEAT WILL COME ON US SO FAST, THAT YOU WON'T HAVE TIME TO GET A NEW PAIR OF FLIP-FLOPS!!!

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

12/22 - Can't believe I've never seen him!

Hey Folks. This is "Jetty" the Mayport Deer. The one and only, that is constantly spotted from A1A North, he lives on the base and meanders thru the marsh.















This photo was taken just south of the back gate to the Navy base, where they are FINALLY lengthening the damn turn lane for all the Navy people (I'm being sooooo nice , here) to get in the base and stop clogging the damn road!!!

The Little Jetties Park is just on the other side of the street......the "Redneck Riviera", you know, where people camp in tents with their heads 10 feet off the dang pavement?  Yeah, that side of the street!  

I'm posting this because as much as I go back and forth on that road, I've never seen him. (guess thats because I'm a A rated driver and my entire livelihood is usually in tow, behind my truck)

People are concerned that Jetty is "feeling his Seaoats". And YES, we all need to be aware early in the mornings and late in the night that "he's out there".

Early in the morning "ON WEEKENDS"...because on weekdays the damn Navy traffic is so slow and thick, you won't be going over 2 miles and hour anyhow!!  That gate should be shut down in my opinion to ONLY large truck traffic, but thats me hating everything about the base. So, I'll keep my opinions on my blog to myself.

Long live Jetty, Mayport's only Buck.

Monday, December 21, 2015

12/21 - A Big Easy slice of heaven




Where I'd like to retire too.......hahahahahahahaha
yeah that's a joke. Me and my $59.99 a month social security check.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

12/19 - VIDEO FISHING REPORT (DEC)




























THAT WAS IT FOR THIS WHOLE MONTH, FOLKS!
OCT. - HAD ONE
NOV. HAD ONE 

























COLD IS THE KEY!!!!!!!!!





Thursday, December 17, 2015

This Ole "Jettywolf" House, (project)






THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING WHEN NOT FISHING FOR THE LAST 3 WEEKS. FIXING BOTCHED UP JOBS FROM THE LAST OWNER, AFTER 9 YEARS, IT WAS TIME. WE PLANNED ON DOING ALL THIS IN THE COOL WEATHER, BUT THIS SUMMER IN NOVEMBER & DECEMBER WEATHER HASN'T BEEN AS PLANNED EITHER.

DAD AND I AREN'T EVEN CLOSE TO DONE YET.


12/17 - Shakespeare Ugly Stik LITES, best rod ever.




Yeah, I'm a fan. But these are gone?
(don't worry I have them for my customers..I did that weeks ago(
I got you covered always!


NEXT UP:  SATURDAY 12 /19 with a ole customer from years ago. "He's back in Jax"

Saturday, December 12, 2015

12/12 - where oh where, were you today.....


Where oh where were you today.....Mr. Speckled Trout?

We were run outa the Jetties by all the damned Bluefish eating all our live shrimp (precious commodity)  Then after catching a few small dink trout we ran up river and tried there. Fished a super Trout spot, but they weren't home.

Got rid of the float-rigs and went to the Jig-n-shrimp comer bo meal and caught Trout then, but all were small. Got a 4 pound Sheepshead off the spot and a 15" Flounder.

ALSO, TWO FRESHWATER CHANNEL CATFISH!!!  now that's 4 Channel Cats that my customers have caught in that area since October.  Hmmmmm, kinda weird.

Made a move and switched to my bait saving "slab spoons" with FISHBITES added and caught small yellowmouth Trout.

Ran back to White shell area and had a guy in a old T-Craft center console boat which looked to be in great shape, and when I asked him, "Is that a old T-Craft?"  He replied, "You're within casting distance" (????)  I said back to him "I just came by to ask you about your boat, thats all."   

Damn huffy ass weekenders!!!  Some people need to chill out.  But we laughed and laughed as he thought I was gonna park on top of him.......which I don't do. But plenty of people do it to me, and never say BOO.

And at White shell we busted the larger yellowmouth Trout pretty good, dropping high numbers into the fish box using Slab spoons and our last dozen or so live shrimp on the float-rig. And also had a few Mangrove Snappers too.

So we made a good finish of the day.  Whewwwww.....and it was a strange one at that.




















One of two Freshwater Channel Cats from up river.....


















































































WHO EVER LOST THEIR BOAT........I FOUND IT JAMMED IN THE NORTH JETTY ROCKS.  LOOKS LIKE ITS STILL FLOATING...........MAY NEED A NEW JETTY ANCHOR,

                                                                                                       


Wednesday, December 9, 2015

12/8 - Listen too; WJTTY- "Gator Country"





















5 POUNDER for Mike
































6 pounder next....for John



























In between we had "keepers" and "sweethearts" and a few just shorts.
Lost a Redfish to a broken leader, picked a few small Mangrove Snappers. But never got many Redfish bites, it was 99% all Trout. Which isn't something I'm complaining about.

























































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Monday, December 7, 2015

12/7 - ahuh......we got 'em






































































































































































James and son Tyler had a banner day fishing the river with the ole Float-rigs and live shrimp.
If only the fishing would be like this 12 months a year.

Don't call me in July and want the same as today.

-Speckled Trout to 5 pounds
-Redfish 18" & 22" KEEPERS!!!!
-Big CROAKER
-Filled in some cooler space with decent sized Yellowmouth Trout (weakfish)
-Mangrove Snappers too.

Just a good, fun fishing day in early December.

Friday, December 4, 2015

12/4 - ITS COOL & BLOWIN OUTSIDE




SO NO FISHING TILL MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOR ME.
SO LETS GO WITH THIS......

WANNA KNOW A WHOLE LOT MORE ABOUT "JIGGING"?

THINK MY INSHORE VERTICAL JIGS AND SLAB SPOONS ARE UNORTHODOX?

LEARN MORE WAYS TO UTILIZE YOUR VERTICAL JIGS FROM THIS ARTICLE.

FROM TROLLING THEM TO "DEAD STICKING" THEM. I'M A FIRM BELIEVER, BECAUSE I HAVE ALREADY RIPPED THE SPANISH MACKERAL UP ON THEM TROLLING.
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

12/2 - Best La. Fishing show! "makes me drool"

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Capt Tony Fontenot is as genuine as they come. I know.....I gotz me the T-shirt. ,Castin' Cajun I never miss an episode. Check it out on YOUTUBE, and subscribe. You'll love it and be very jealous like I am, that I'm not a Castin Cajun too.




























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I told Capt Tony, I could learn to be a Castin Cajun in one year or less...... TRY ME!

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

DECEMBER ONE (deserves some off topic fun)

HUGE FAN........FAVORITE MOVIE(s)..........SO WHAT COULD BE COOLER, than this?




Arnold Schwarzenegger pranks fans...This is why i love this guy!!! hahahaha
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