Thanksgiving week was the classic Trout bite. The colder water put them on the move in the ICW and bunched up on the deeper shell drops.
It's some of the easiest fishing I do all year. You don't need to mess with live bait at all. I use a quarter ounce jig head with white and green 4 inch curl tail plastic bait. All you have to do is bounce it off the bottom real slow. Once you get the first few fish and figure out how to work it you will catch a Trout almost every cast.
The key is finding the shell drops from 8 to 15 feet deep. If you don't get a fish after 6 or 8 casts then move to a new area. Like I said once you find them it's on!!!
Fishing last week with David Boyd his brother Robbie and father JD it was bent poles for 4 solid hours.
We worked a 300 yard stretch of bank for the whole trip with nothing but plastics. I don't think we made a drift with out catching at least 8 Trout each time. The size of the Trout ranged from 14 inches to 20 inches so there were enough legal fish if you wanted to eat some fresh Trout.
It was a great morning on the water and the guess was that they caught over 60 Trout between the three of them.
Thanks again for a great time guys
Capt. James Howard Jacksonville Florida
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