Jacksonville September Fishing Report
Capt. Dave Sipler
September 15, 2009
Jacksonville - Saltwater Fishing Report
9/12 - In between the rain
Had Nick W. aboard today. Nick and I haven't fished together in a while. The weather was mighty iffy, but you certainly couldn't tell that from the amount of boats on the river. Yeah, instead of offshore, I guess. Because the east winds blew, and the dark clouds passed over all day long.
But that didn't matter. Nick got to wet a line. And together, we always have fun!
We pretty much were on the Trout search. But that was ending up being kinda slow. I caught a fattie that really was a true pig. As I was taking the hook out of it's mouth I noticed that it had a big fish tail sticking out of it's throat. Was either a large mullet or a yellow
mouth Trout. I had a customer catch a 7.5 pound Trout once that had three 8-1o inch yellow
mouth Trout in it's stomach. So I'm not all that surprised what these dudes can actually eat.
Here's that fat bellied Trout that also ate a 3" live shrimp.
Nick was catching some Mangrove Snappers, and as I fished along with him. I kept the Trout coming. But the bite was quite slow on trout.
Nick hasn't wetted a line since last Christmas.
So he may have been a bit rusty.
The first of the year "river" Grouper was also caught. By this time last year I believe many more were caught while float-rig fishing.
We then moved on and went and threw some jigs and shrimp. Caught 5 Flounder, not very big ones though, but keepers. A small Sheepshead, some Jacks, a few more Trout, but small. And by the time to tide had come up, went towards the ICW, to see if we could get a Redfish up in a very flooded bay. But only caught a small Trout.
Lot's of action. on and off rain. Lot's of boats around. But the east wind really didn't affect us much at all. We hit the dock and I cleaned the fish, long after the weather sent the crowds packin'. The boat ramp when we got back was nearly vacant!
Hmmm, reminiscent of a winter day, during football season? Yes, I think so. I'm really looking forward to when the weather turns a bit cooler. But with the inshore water temps still between 78 and 80 degrees......"that won't be for awhile, yet".
The pile of fish yielded a bag of fillets that weighed over 5 pounds. Which was great, because Nick didn't want it all. So when I got home I had me a nice dinner of fresh fried fish. Then hit the sack.
Solo passengers welcome, call for special rate:
Jacksonville Fishing Forecast:
This weeks tides are gonna be a real bugger.
Today: 9/14 the high tide along with the east wind had the water well into the parking lot at the Mayport Boat ramp at high tide.
PREPARE to have your feet and truck tires WET!
Along with these tides fishing is much tougher.
Target Species:
TROUT, MANGROVES, FLOUNDER....and more
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