Red Hot Fishing along Jacksonville's Riv

I Cherish Father and Son Charters because I have so many Fond Memories fishing with my Dad. I picked up Ron and John at Post Street public dock in Riverside. We had Tarpon rolling around the boat in short order. The fish seemed to be short striking on artificial lures, so we transitioned to live bait. John landed a four footer. We got some spectacular jumps out of this fish. Next stop we fished for snook. Nothing big but we caught a few fish drifting live shrimp beneath our Bomber Paradise Popper popping corks. Snook are a rae catch in Jacksonville. Just landing onevis quite a feat. Next we fished deep water with live bait. John scored a massive bull redfish to finish off our 4 hour blitz. The action continues and should carry on throughout October on the St. Johns River.

I did back2back trips on Friday. Vance Meyer chartered me for a solo short Afternoon Blitz. I picked him up at the YMCA dock Downtown Jacksonville. We cast netted a live well full of shrimp and we started out targeting snook. We only caught 1 little snook so we decided to Swing Big and target Tarpon with Artificial Lures. Vance got a hold of a 100+ lb.Tarpon. He put on quite a show for the crowd along the Jacksonville River Walk as this fish was quite the acrobatic jumper. After catching the fish of a life time we called it a day. Tarpon are the Captain"s Choice target species between now and the end of October.

84 year old Jim McCunes 15 year old Grandson Bond and his best friend William were visiting from Atlanta. We started out targeting juvenile tarpon. It was exciting because the fish were rolling on the surface frequently. We jumped several fish on artificial lures before Bond finally got one boat side. Bond also caught a nice Black Drum on light tackle right in the heart of downtown Jacksonville. We then got on a good bite of small spotted searrout drifting live shrimp beneath Bomber Paradise Popper popping corks. We got a few mangrove snapper as well. This fast Duval County fishing Action will contine thru October on the St. Johns River.