Captain Tommy Derringer 4/1/25 fishing report

Captain Tommy Derringer

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Things are definitely starting to warm up this week… Trout bite has turned on for me over the weekend. We’ve caught quite a few trout (and redfish) on top-waters first thing in the morning. I also had one late afternoon trip where we caught a couple big trout using the Berkeley J-Walker 120. I’ve just been having my clients toss the top-waters around areas that are holding good numbers of mullet. Speaking of mullet there’s a bunch of them around for this time of year. Especially in the south end of St. Augustine. I’ve also had some reports of some bigger slot size snook being caught in Palm Coast area… Both on top-waters and on live bait at night around the bridges and the lights on the docks from Matanzas to just south of Palm Coast. Seems like a big live shrimp, mullet (or pinfish. If you can find them), have been the best bet for those bigger snook. If you’re quiet enough, you can just listen and hear them popping around the edges of those lights. Cobia is on everybody’s mind this week as those water temperatures start to creep up to the magic number of around 68°. I think we might be seeing some rays here real soon. I’ll probably venture out on the beach later this week.

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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.

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Captain Tommy Derringer 4/21/2025 fishing report

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 ...

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