With the cooler weather, the speckled trout bite is turning on with lots of near slot and above slot fish. Float rigs and artificials are producing. Sheepshead continues to improve with larger fish starting to show. Sharks are a problem taking some bigger fish. Bull reds show up at surprising times and places. Flounder will open December 1 and they should be chewing. Let's go fishing!

Beautiful day. Early season sheepies. Better fish starting to show.

Beautiful day. Early season sheepies. Better fish starting to show.

Beautiful day. Early season sheepies. Better fish starting to show.

Capt.Frank Cole here with our Northeast Florida first weekend in February Fishing Report. Weather continues to be a challenge. Cold front after cold front has brought low temperatures and high winds to the area. Wild changes in barometric pressure has affected fishing. Nonetheless, on fishable days, there are fish to be caught. Inshore, the speckled seatrout bite has been pretty consistent with good catches of legal trout and some lower slot redfish. Slow trolling with grubs near the bottom is a good way to locate the schools. Once found, traditional float rigs with live shrimp will produce numbers. Sheepshead fishing has been generally good with some really good days and some slower days. But some quality fish are being caught. When weather permits, the black seabass bite has been consistent - if you can get your baits past the red snapper. Further offshore, trigger fish have been good with some 5 pound plus fish being caught. Wahoo fishing has been tough this winter because of the weather. On the fishable days, boats are often encountering cold dirty water. But, there's lots of bait and some nice wahoo in excess of 100 pounds have been caught. Bottom line is - go when you can go and you may be rewarded. Hopefully, calmer weather is around the corner.

Nice sheepshead bite the last few days. Lots of fish in the 2-3 lb. range with 5-6 pounders showing up. Some fish close to 10 caught. A little early for the big fish but some are showing. January and February are prime months but looking good for December.