4/25 - Last day of Float-rigging

Had Vic M. aboard the jettywolf today and the forecast was for rain, rain, rain and a south wind.
Well we saw neither.
The winds all morning were what seemed to me as DUE EAST!

Vic called me and said he loves Trout, eating Trout. And wanted to learn more about catching them.
I told him, "I can teach you all about Float-rig fishing, It catches Trout and everything else that eats LIVE Shrimp."

So today we headed out. I wasn't about to go through what I went through at the Jetties yesterday and plus in all reality there's no Trout there anyhow, barely has been this whole year!  So we headed up river and fished every single Trout spot I have in a area that I can just hop from spot to spot.

The wind was blowing straight up the stern of the boat as we laid on anchor, so No this wasn't a south wind at all.

We caught a few Trout here and there and many spots didn't even yield a bite. About 10 Trout, mostly small ones, a Flounder and a pup red, and several good sized Jacks and ladyfish is what the day consisted of. Basically, a average spring "where are the big Trout" day.  I can say that because I remember back when this time of year I'd be catching so many nice Trout in the same area, that it's only now a distant memory.

I always "squeek" Float-rig fishing out for as long as I can. Then comes a day when it's time to pack in the float-rig rods and do something else for the rest of the spring/summer.

Well, I think today was that day. Not that we didn't have fun, but I know Vic expected more. But I couldn't squeeze blood from a turnip, either.

Want great Trout fishing, go in the deep winter months. That's the best we have, or at least when I do my very best.

Now, it'll be "slab spoon jigging" for fun fish. Bottom fishing for any Studs such as over -sized Redbass, Sharks and the like.

Vic never caught a Jack before, and never caught a Ladyfish, either. So he got yanked on pretty good and decided he liked the fight of the smaller Trout better. Vic wasn't a youngster. I could see he liked the kick-back let the float drift kinda fishing. Just wish we had more Trout and bigger.

Next up...... Bottom fishing
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4/24 - What the Moon & Wind can do for you.

No photos, No Video, just the written word for today.

So what can the Moon and the wind do for you??????

Screw you like you haven't been screwed in years, that's what!

Today we had NE winds on top of a tide so weak that there was no "Noticeable"  tide flow for up to 4 hours after the statistical tide change.

The tide has to move, right?  Well I'm sure it was, but hell if you could find a spot at the Mayport Jetties where there was some serious movement, add in the 15+ knot NE winds and that meant for the first 4 hrs of the day with Steve and son Chris, it was like we were being the brunt of a bad joke.

ZIP CODE CHANGE....as bad as I hate to leave my boats name sake and run for miles the other direction I did it, only to go to 2 spots that also had no tide. aka: water movement.

Spot number three, and finally I found water moving from more than just the wind....

I.G. - instantaneous Gratification

First float with live shrimp pitched by me behind the boat, and it went down. SPECKLED TROUT
15". And in the box it went!

For the next 2 hrs Steve and Chris caught a dozen Specks and only one Bluefish. Not monsters, but between the St. Johns River average; 14-16" boxing about 10 of them.

I hesitated to even use the words I.G. because prior to that float going down with a Trout, the whole morning was one 8" Flounder and two 20" Bonnethead Sharks. Over four hours prior.....!

I  can't imagine a place harder to fish in the state of Florida sometimes, than right here in my back yard. If there is one, I'd like to know about it. So I can avoid it like the Plague!

Heading out in the next hour for Saturday's instructional Float-rig fishing charter with Victor, and then Sunday Fun Day with Father and Son.

I'm prepared for.........What the Moon & Wind can do for ME.

4/23 - DAIWA ZILLION; Tricked Out & Phenix Rod

4/19 -SPRING JACKSONVILLE POMPANO FISHING; with Capt Dave

Talk about F-U-N!

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4/18 - Jacksonville Fishing; I call this covering ground

WHERE WERE YOU?
IT WAS A GORGEOUS DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF APRIL AND NO ONE WANTED TO GO?

There's many times people do all they can to make it so difficult for me to even take you.

Let me count the ways.....

They call the morning of. That doesn't work out very often. People call the day before but seem to not want to commit, because I need your commitment "less than 24 hours notice?
1/2 up front deposit, mandatory."

Think I'm a party boat? Yep, no one ever goes to my website any more. They think ya just walk on with 18 people like I'm a bus, back home in Bakersville USA.  SORRY, I do (4) people and thats too many in my book......with ADVANCED DEPOSIT.

Or instead of having a bus load, will call with 5 people. Uneven numbers don't cut it in Life, and are one OVER because I carry a fishing license to cover 4 persons only!

Please folks. Do some investigation, ask a few questions. And reserving is easy in all reality.

Sometimes I feel as if I had a 30 ft. Bass Pro shops party barge, I could do more trips. Load them all up, drop anchor, dead shrimp for everyone...... and call it fishing.

BUT I'M NOT A INSHORE PARTY BOAT. And plan on staying that way.

4/16 - Tricking Out; DAIWA ZILLION part 1

4/15 - 72 quarts of BIG MAYPORT JETTY WHITING!!!

This was back on April 3rd 2013.........AND I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN!

I KEEP TRYING, BUT IT HAS FAILED TO HAPPEN. BUT WHEN IT DOES. I'LL LET YA'LL KNOW.

I WANT 72 QT COOLER FULL OF WHITLINS! (my nic-name for them)

4/13 - ON EBAY

FOUR IDENTICAL

SHIMANO CITICA 200E's ON EBAY, I'M SELLING.

Each on a separate sale: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331528926556?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Super reels, the best Citica Shimano ever made.  Not beat up, in superior condition. Well maintained by "ME". I can break them down to "parade rest" and put them back together again in a heart beat.
I' bought these new. Now, don't use them so they've been just sitting.

GET A BETTER REEL, FOR 1/2 THE PRICE OF A BRAND NEW ONE, WITH A REEL COVER THROWN IN

UPDATE: 4/13 one sold immediately. Only 3 left.






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4/11 - Jacksonville Summer Vacation; Affordable Kids Fishing Trips!

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4/11 - Seeking flexible "anglers"

No party boat mentality. Is not worried about how many pounds of fish you'll take home. Weekday only, preferable M-Thursday. MAX: 1 or 2 persons. No children.

Light Tackle Jigging charter, near shore reefs. Keeper fish a "bonus". Seas must be calm and winds variable. 10 Dozen live shrimp back up bait.

For the rest of April.  $400 up too (2).  As late a notice as 48 hrs. you have to be ready to go at 7am sharp.

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4/7 - "A JETTYWOLF MOMENT"; Jacksonville fishing charters

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4/6 - BAIT REPORT:

4/6/2015 - BAIT R-E-P-O-R-T

ICW south of St. Johns River today. 1st Jack caught and wasn't a 6 incher, but rather a 3 pounder! 

2nd time in a few years we've caught the 1st Jack of the year in the same spot in the ICW.

(note: other years were more like MARCH 6th, rather than APRIL 6th..........LATE???)

Of course the bonnetheads are at the jetties and Nassau Sound, also.

BAIT:  MULLET SCHOOLS all over the banks getting busted by hungry schools of Jacks. I'm talking massive schools. Not seen like this in a long time. Perfect 3 inch Mullet.

BUT never seen them till LOW tide. Also seen schools of bait already in Mill Cove!

Guess the Spanish & Ladies, are next up. Haven't seen the Spanish yet. Last two few days has been heinous EAST winds so I have not been to the jetties.

I suppose the Mullet and Jacks took the "inland route" coming north. Into the ICW, because I never saw a single Mullet at the jetties.

SHARPEN YER' HOOKS FOLKS!

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4/3 - Easter weekend

Let the zoo begin!

Right about now is when all the fair weather boaters and fisherman come out of the drift wood.
Boats I have never ever seen before at the ramp in the morning, ghetto cruisers waking the river banks. Yep. These people are the ones we don't see all winter long.

When I leave the dock on a cold late January morning with two die-hards from Michigan. You won't ever see these people. And the funny thing is, "It's Florida", not Chicago IL. It's never that bad if you know how to dress. The fisherman in Chicago look out at a giant lake full of ice.

But, I'm so glad there's fair weather sissy fisherman. Because I don't want to see them. That's why I call Dec. Jan. Feb. and even parts of March, "Dave's Time".

Well, I'm here to tell ya, Dave's Time is O-V-E-R!

The proof started, T-O-D-A-Y.

3/31 - Capt Dave "Angler & Shoe Model"

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4/2 - DAIWA TATULA - HD200HS, Saltwater Worthy?

Promised a "show & tell" and here it is.

If you are a inshore saltwater baitcasting aficionado. You'll appreciate what I'm talking about in this video.

Jigging, Jig fishing is a huge part of inshore light tackle river & inlet fishing. NOTHING does it better than a rod and reel combo super tuned for where you fish.

3/29 - Jacksonville Fishing; JETTYWOLF MOMENT whats coming up

"JETTYWOLF MOMENT" (usually a short informing video)
-Wow what a weather change
-What's coming up, soon
-1st ever Jetty Sheepshead on a Capt Dave's SLAB sooon, in first 5 minutes on the spot.
 (3-28-2015)


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3/26 - Jacksonville "SPRING" Fishing Charter

Fishing "newbie" Darrel tries his hand at real fishing, Mayport Style vs: Iowa style!
(his thumb was not experienced, and was a problem. NO you can't just stop these fish on Light Tackle!)

But we had a day of it out there as it was on and off rain all day till the end.

C'C'mon and try your hand at REAL light tackle sport fishing for BIG fish. I'm there to help ya. But not catch them for ya.

Spring Break ain't over yet.

www.captdaves.com - all you need to know.

Come git ya' some!

3/27 - Flip-Box by Sport-Brella

"JETTYWOLF LIVE"

REVIEW COMING SOON.  ON BOARD FROZEN BAIT BOX! (summer time sharkin)
fold it up afterwards and stow it away. Just what I have always wanted. Recycled material, I like that. Perfect size.

Stand by..."Cause I'll be working on this for YOU."

3/24 - FOR A KEEPER!

Tough day on finding "keeper fish"......especially any Trout. But we had a lot of fish, just short of the Florida bogus regulations. Float-rig fished everything but the jetties. We tried and it was all wrong.
The current, the wind wasn't doing us any favors.

EITHER are all the damn Bluefish, that have infested my favorite place and boats name sake!

3/22 - Just photos...lots going on with 5 today..

Had the Tony T. clan aboard today. 3 adults and two Jr, anglers. Age range from what I was told, 78 to 6 years old.

The bluefish are the absolute surge of the ocean right now. And getting anything other than them biting off your hooks while float-rig fishing is a complete miracle!

But miracles obviously do happen and we had a decent box of fish...But if the Blues weren't there "OH WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD!!!!"

My crew caught a 5 pound Yellowmouth Trout. Serious monster Yeller! A Speck that was a  19-20 incher, and several other Specks. And the rest of the day we fought the Bluefish. They are like eating machines, and locust all wrapped up in one 6-12" demon.

Right when all is good and we're having a ball catching good trout, here they come. Which forces me to trout fish up in the river and I'd rather NOT do that because I like fishing the Jetties.

We set out a dead man rod with a dead shrimp on it also at one point and had 3 stingrays and a Bonnethead shark. So....the stingrays are back too. Which means, no bother bottom fishing!

3/20 - SPRING JETTY SLAMS

Fishing almost every day.......

I wonder if I could keep count of Bluefish bites versus Good fish bites.

I doubt it.

3/18: from 3/16 at MAYPORT JETTIES aboard the Jettywolf

I said there will be Video.....so there will be Video!

GO CATCH, NOW

3/16 - What a day.....video coming!

10 pound Sheepshead, caught on the float-rig with Live Shrimp. Only person to do that on my boat was me, twice!

Also had a box full of 2 pound Yellowmouth Trout and Speckled Trout.

VIDEO coming soon.