Looks like the boat will stay on the hill for a few days this week. We have a North Easter beating down on us for the next 4 days with winds from 25 to 40 knots. That's too much wind even for inshore…
The big Reds in the creek are chewing crab baits at the lower end of the tide and there are plenty of nice Trout in the river also. We are catching several Flounder on each trip which means they are in for good.
That leads me to an awesome gigging trip I had last week. It was one of those tides that I love. Start at 3am and gig until day break. I am a firm believer that the longer it's been dark the more comfortable the Flounder get to move up into the shallows.
I have always done better on an early morning tide than an early evening tide. We stuck our limit of Flounder in less than 3 hours and we were able to pick thru them to get the nicer fish. I bet we saw over 50 Flounder that morning.
It was one of those trips that don't come along all the time. Every where I went that night was loaded with Flounder. The conditions were perfect I guess you could say.
Tight lines Capt. James Howard Jacksonville Florida
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