Fishing Reports by Capt. James Howard

After the Storm - Storms, Storms and more Storms! Things are still out of whack in Jacksonville Florida due to Fay last week. The water is very dirty and the tides are way above normal. I did have 2 charters this week that were pretty tuff. We did catch quite a few fi more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Back to Normal!!! - Not any fishing this past week due to Tropical Storm Fay! That was one storm that just wouldn't go away. We got plenty of rain and wind in Jacksonville Florida that's for sure… Things are settled back down now and it looks like a great week ahea more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Feed Before the Front - Mike Schildgen his daughter Noel her friend Shannon and Mike's niece Abbie and myself took off early Tuesday morning August the 12th looking for a good morning of fishing… Well that's exactly what we got! The trip was originally set up for Wednesd more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Non Stop Action! - August the 10th with Greg Archambault and his son Phillip we left the dock just before dawn headed to one of my favorite Trout spot's. Float rigs and live shrimp usually are the ticket. The only thing wrong was that we could not get a shrimp in th more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Sticking the Big Flat One!!! - One of the things about Flounder gigging is you never know when you might roll up on that monster flat fish… There are always plenty of Flounder to choose from but this time of year most of them will be on the smaller size. I try to pick thru them more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

When the Big Dog's Play! - Fishing July 27th in the creeks with Jack Ward and his second cousin Josh it was a work the edges chunk and wind kind of day… After trying some float fishing the first hour and catching only one Trout and about 15 Mangrove Snapper's it was time to more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Bonus Fish!! - Fishing Thursday July 25th with Pete Heist and his son in law Wes Pickens we started off float fishing with live shrimp in 20 foot of water in the river. Well we stayed there for almost 3 solid hours with the corks going down every drift… At first more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Got to Go Gigging!!! - The tide was right and the water was clean for a little 3am to day break gigging trip this past Wednesday morning July the 16th. No charter that morning so I was going Flounder gigging no matter what… I go alone a lot of times even though I pref more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

All About the Kid's - Fishing with Ken Magee and his son Blake yesterday the 16th it was all about just catching some fish mainly for Blake. Ken had told me when he booked the trip that he didn't care what we fished for he just wanted his son to catch a few… After the more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

A Trip to Remember! - You could not ask for anything more on an inshore charter than what I did fishing July 8th With Rob Schroeder and his group… We started off 2 minutes from the dock throwing plastics at a school of 3lb Blue fish. The birds were all over that acti more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville