Atlantic Coast Marine Captains Corner Fishing Report

  Captain Tommy Derringer 9043773734 www.inshoreadventures.net We’ve seen more beautiful weather this past week… And the fishing has been awesome as well! Redfish have been absolutely stacking up in the creek holes from the Vilano  inlet all the way up to Palm Valley. The last of the outgoing tide has been best, but they’ve also been chewing on the first of the incoming. Mudminnows and shrimp have been working well, and if you can’t find live stuff, the Gulp shrimp is working wonders too. Trout bite has been great with top Waters early in the morning and that right before dark. Just look for the concentration of bait and toss your plug around there. I’ve seen a few really big trout around this week as well. A friend in Jacksonville has caught five fish over 25 inches this past weekend. The flounder have started showing up in better numbers as well. Seems like every week there’s more around. There’s even a few tarpon starting to show up along the beaches, at the bridges, and on...

Captain Kirk Waltz 9046261128 www.enterprisefishingcharters.com   Mayport/ Jacksonville The warm weather this week definitely helped with the temperature of the water but, continued cool nights have only allowed it to warm slightly. The huge moon phase we just went through has hampered the bite somewhat. Decent numbers of fish are around but, it’s required work and lots of patience. Fiddlers, shrimp and cut crab have been effective but bite is still slow. Try using float rigs on high water around the rocks for trout, reds, and even some small tarpon with the peanut pogies that are available or a live shrimp. The Spanish have been hit and miss but that should improve. The nearshore offshore bottom bite has been very good for snapper, seabass and bluefish but it’s strictly catch and release. 

 Captain Buzz Brannon www.northeastangling.com 9045707878 Fishing this past week for redfish remains solid. We found redfish still in good numbers in both the intercoastal and small creeks during the dropping and incoming tide. Over sized, under sized and just the perfect size redfish were found all week long. Shrimp on jig head was the ticket.

 Captain Tommy Derringer www.inshoreadventures.net 9043773734 Things are warming back up this week… The wind has switched back around out of the south and we’re getting a taste of the early parts of summer this week. The fishing last week and over the weekend was fantastic for me in the south end of Saint Augustine. We were chasing large schools of redfish up very shallow. I was fishing out of my Maverick skiff and that was a good thing because we got up super skinny to find some big redfish laid up. We were mostly tossing some of the new Gulp products at those skinny water redfish. The new nemesis prawn is an absolute fish slayer. As this week goes on the tide is going to be ideal to get out early and toss a top water plug. My favorites for this time of year are definitely the Berkeley J-Walker 120 and the 100. I prefer the 120 when the tide is up a little higher and if it’s a little shallow I’ll switch to the smaller 100 size. If you can find mudminnows that seems to be the live ...

 Atlantic Coast Marine 9042210793 www.atlanticcoastmarine.com It was a interesting fishing week here in the Jacksonville area. We fished inshore and just off the beach and found some solid fishing. With the fly rod we were able to land a few cobia. The cobia were short but were fun just the same. Brett pulled a nice Cobia in on spin gear but released the fish before we could get a photo. We actually picked up a few flounder with the fly rod as well. Redfish were hungry but at times were a bit fickle. shrimp fly patterns , live shrimp , mud minnows and some soft plastics have been working well for redfish.

 Captain Buzz Brannon 9045707878 www.northeastflorida.com Be it Flies, soft plastics and live shrimp the redfish and trout bite was solid this past week. Finding fish moving into the shallow flats on incoming tide was really productive. Depending on wind and tide water clarity ranged from clear to muddy but the fish are hungry. We found fish everyday we fished all up and down the intercoastal from Beach Blvd North to Sisters creek.