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Jacksonville City Limits...Saltwater Style
Capt. Ron Schurr
October 9, 2009
Jacksonville - Saltwater Fishing Report
For the past couple of months I have been splitting my fishing trips from the remote backwater marshes to downtown Jacksonville. My normal trips are in the saltwater marshes and creeks, usually miles from any type of development. Northeast Florida has some of the best backwater fishing in the state. For the uninitiated, backwater fishing, or backcountry fishing, is angling in the extensive network of bays, Spartina islands and tidal creeks that permeate the region. There are thousands of miles of shoreline, countless oyster bars and acres of tidal creeks that attract an abundance of salt water fish.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, Jacksonville also offers some outstanding fishing in a more urban setting. Fishing in the shadows of downtown Jacksonville's high rise buildings, miles of industrial docks and rock walls have been producing outstanding numbers of speckled and yellow mouth trout and redfish along the St Johns River. This style of fishing seems more like freshwater bass fishing, skipping lures under docks, bouncing jigs along underwater rocks and working noisy top water plugs across deep points. I have been fishing the downtown area during the higher stages of the tide and then making a short 15 minute boat ride to the remote backwaters as the tides drops, allowing one to experience two totally unique fishing adventures in the same day.
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