1/11 - BBBBB'Brutal CCCCC' Cold !

Is it that because it's been 80 all "winter", that when it's 40 (?) it seems like a near-death experience?
Not sure if today was even 40 degrees.  Sure felt colder to us.

Had John & Javier from Texas aboard today and yeah, not sure if they were totally prepared either.

"it was a double-hood day, for me all day long!"

And I'll tell ya right now, as soon as I'm done writing this report, I'm heading over to Ebay and ordering me several pairs of the best WATER-PROOF gloves I can get.

That pulling the cold wet anchor line is a killer!  (more about the anchor coming....)

We started out Float-rig fishing and there really wasn't much if anything to it at all. nothing but scourge fish (Blues) eating our baits.

Ended up at the jetties and it was damn nice out there. So we bottom fished.

MY DAIWA SHRAPNEL..."I've never even caught a big fish on it yet!!!"

SELFIES...John, two drum and I,

9 & 12 pounds

CAPTAIN MORGAN, and his Pirate bootie!


I'd just as soon bottom fish the jetties right now versus float-rig fish. I'm getting a bit burnt out on the Trout one day, no Trout another thing. It just may not be a good Trout year. Maybe come March & April?

PROBLEM WITH BOTTOM FISHING THE JETTIES IS THAT THERE ALWAYS THE RISK OF LOOSING AN ANCHOR.

YEP, WENT TO PULL MY $95.00 "REEF & ROCK" ANCHOR AND IT WAS SO JAMMED, THE CHAIN WOULDN'T EVEN BUDGE.

THAT'S THE SECOND ANCHOR IN A FEW MONTHS, LOST TO THE SAME AREA.

I NOW HAVE (5) OVER ALL, IN THE SAME AREA OF THE JETTIES.  OH HOW I WISH I WAS A LOUISIANA FISHERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

1/10 - WEST WIND BLOWIN'......AND COLD

The Waves Win Again!
Don't tempt the waves! #GuyHarveyCredit: Unknown
Posted by Guy Harvey on Sunday, January 10, 2016

naw, nothing like this today....
but it did blow like hell  20 knots, from a very undesirable direction in the river. Had two great guy from WYOMING aboard the Jettywolf.  Caught a few keeper trout, a few throw backs, a few bluefish, a Sheepshead, a Flounder, and one Yellowmouth trout, and that was about it.

BACK AT IT AGAIN
Monday morning, with two more guys from TEXAS.
Supposed 10-15 North winds

1/8 - Speckled trout catching prey at night (underwater footage)

STUDY THY ADVERSARY.......

'WATCH HOW THEY FEED"

1/7 - REVAMPED "SPECIES" SERIES: Striper & Catfish

COMING SOON TO:   CAPT DAVE'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL

More Ugly Talk...

Ugly Stik has re-vamped the Striper & Catfish rod "species" series of rods.

-No, I don't fish for either fish, but these are two rods that I have fished many of the older models of. And let me tell ya', I loved them back then, and now..."It's a whole new ball game."

I'll tell you a few things you didn't know about the worlds most iconic rod brand, the worlds strongest rod, and yeah, the worlds most durable rod!

On CAPT DAVE'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL it's more than just going fishing and catching fish. It's about the sport, lifestyle, and equipment used.

So stay tuned. I've always got something in the works. For my Blog Readers, & YouTube channel subscribers.  (plus I post shit on Twitter and Facebook...no I'm not a huge Facebooker)

1/6: HOW TO CATCH SEA TROUT & MORE

Want to learn "HOW TO FISH" the Float-rig?

CLICK HERE for A-Z how to fish the float-rig

1/5 - HELL YES!!! (read)

Read this article and tell me that this is just plain "common sense".

READ and share this article:

Workman wants FWC to stop hassling boaters     <LINK HERE>


Here's an example, of ME minding my own business, fishing and waited for the perfect time of the morning. Up at 4am, in the water by 5am all for that first light morning bite.

"I see him coming from way far away, naturally he has to come by and want to do a safety inspection at 7am and I literally have to say can't we do this another time? I'm here fishing...."

1/3 - Cold arrived nice and WET like:

Friday.....beautiful morning, the first hour or two.  Then rained all day long on and off. Jetty fished bottom fishing. Almost zero going on. With Boyd and his girl friend Debbie. She was a serious "super trooper". My kinda gal too. Never complained about the weather and just fished hard all day long.

One huge Croaker, a few large Whiting, and a large Pigfish, and a 3 foot nurse shark. That was it. The whole falling tide, and tide change.

Rained on us the whole time.  Up in the river next. Could hardly give a bait away the rest of the day.
By days end it was freezing cold, and really WET.

Saturday,  The boys from Glousta'. No rain. but CCCCCold.  TROUT on one spot, and a ton of bait thieves in the 68-69 degree batch tube warm water , for this time of year.

With on Cold day per month since November, it's not like the water temp is down. The water Temp is HIGH for now about 8 degrees HIGHER than it should be. And thats why the bait stealers are so ravenous.   Can't get to the Trout for all the bait stealers between us and them.

But we had about 5 nice Trout on Saturday:

And every where else we picked and poked around catching a bunch of small ones. It's tough for anything with all this weather swings. Hot, then cold, then cold and rain. Typical late Dec. & early Jan????  NO not really.

Sunday, rain all morning. Cancelled at the boat ramp. Had three guys in from Pa. for the Tax Slayer Bowl game and fishing in the rain was not what they were prepared for. And I'm sure it would have been a tough day to catch anything, any how.

So there ya have it. My New years weekend.








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I float-rig fish this time of year for "ALL SPECIES"...but it targets primarily Trout.

I jig fish with live shrimp. It also catches it all, not a particular species.

I bottom fish the jetties usually with jumbo dead shrimp, and it doesn't target any particular species, it catches it all.

Your day is one out of 365....remember that.  It's just fishing. Not a trip to the fish market or grocery store where we just pick out the species you want.  This is NE Florida, that's how it rolls, this time of year.

Already had a call this week for Yellowfin and Bluefin Tuna fishing....."I said "WHAT KINDA FISHING??"  I thought it was a crank caller.  Someone didn't have a clue of where I'm at or what I do.

Already had a call for going Dolphin fishing "Mahi Mahi"....Another caller who had no clue where he's calling or who he's calling.

Call, after checking these reports, visiting my website, and ask to "Go fishing".  Believe me, I'll do my best to have us catching, INSHORE SALTWATER SPECIES OF FISH, in NE Florida.  Not offshore, not Gulf Stream, not Bluewater Trolling.  Just inshore light tackle fishing, where it's NO LONG BOAT RIDE, which means; "Fish more Ride Less."

1/2 - NEW ROCKS......

" Supposedly".

Starting in January.  The changes to the Little Jetties area.  Eventually 'MORE ROCK"...and new fishing spots??

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.

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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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.

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.

12/19 - VIDEO FISHING REPORT (DEC)

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

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

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"

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,

                                                                                                       

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.

"MAKING THE DONUTS........"

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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.

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.
HERE'S THE ARTICE'S <LINK>

12/3 AIRD - UGLY STIK - SLAB SPOONS

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

BEST YOUTUBE LOUISIANA TV SHOW..

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.

WATCH THE SHOW AND SUBSCRIBE HERE (LINK)

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

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
Posted by Kit Dale on Thursday, August 6, 2015