Fishing Reports by Capt. Chad Starling

Jacksonville Bluewater Charter Report - Jan 20th, 2018 - The wind has really been hindering the offshore fishing the past few weeks. We had a small window this past week where we were able to make it offshore. We decided to take advantage of the great weather and stretch out to 60 miles. I noticed the wate more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Jacksonville Offshore Fishing Charter Report - Dec 17th, 2017 - The last few days have been gorgeous offshore. There's a variety of fish to chase this time of year from Cobia, Wahoo, Black Fin Tuna, Black Sea Bass, Vermilion Snapper, Triggerfish, Red Porgy, Red Snapper, and Grouper. Sunday's trip yielded some cob more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Jacksonville Offshore Charter - November 2017 - As the temps begin to cool, so do our water temps. The cooler water temps begins to send the pelagics like kingfish, sharks, amberjack, barracuda, sailfish, etc. further offshore and to the South for warmer waters. As these guys depart our nearshore more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Red Snapper Season 2017 - Jacksonville, FL - 2017 Red Snapper Season Open NOV 3,4,5,10,11,12. In Jacksonville Fl, we have one of the best Red Snapper fisheries in the world, literally. For the past 7 years red snapper has been closed to harvest; during that 7 years, we had what the government c more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Jacksonville Offshore Report - October 11, 2017 - I look forward to fishing offshore in Jacksonville, FL in October. As our temps begin to fall, our water temp follows, which brings in our annual Black Sea Bass fishery. Our temps haven't started to fall yet, so we are still waiting for that. We stil more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Offshore Report 5-13-17 - We braved the weather window this morning and about 1230 mother nature slammed it shut on us. The fishing was good though. The ride back from 18 miles was cold and wet and constant soaking spray. There wasn't a dry place in the boat. The crew from At more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

January 15th, 2017 Roger Raulerson and Crew - Lot of variety today with black sea bass, vermilion snapper, ring tail porgys, sharks, mutton snapper, triggerfish, brown porgys, and tripletail. more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Good Bottom Bite - Snapper and Grouper - Picked up a last minute phone call this morning. The crew was available and so was I so we met at the boat ramp at noon. Made the run 11 miles offshore and returned to the dock at 3p. The bait we used was squid and frozen sardines on a 3-way swivel r more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Jacksonville Fishing Charters - Team Buck Rogers - April 4, 2016 - We had a nasty cold front move through this weekend which caused us to cancel our charters on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Monday the ocean was as nice as you could ask for and i was in desperate need of some salt therapy! We headed offshore look more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville

Hammered Red Snapper and Limit of Black Bass - Another gorgeous day on the Atlantic Ocean. We had a great day Sunday so the plan was to start out where I left off. Sunday I was throwing nice sized black sea bass back because we had our limit; so clearly starting there seemed to be the logical thi more...
Capt. Chad Starling - Jacksonville