Skinny water
July 09, 2025 Jacksonville 1 photo
Spotted Seatrout
Spotted Seatrout

Trip Summary

On todays four hour charter I ran further up river and went to an area that is mostly shallow, less than three feet deep, and littered with oyster bars. We casted out a typical spread of various baits including live shrimp, mud minnows, and finger mullet. We worked our first spot which looked promising but werent able to connect to much with any size. We threw back several short seatrout and redfish. After deciding that the area wasnt the fishiest that day I turned the boat back towards the ramp and decided on fishing a creek system that holds water well on a low tide. We crept our way into the shallows and found much happier redfish and Seatrout feeding in the swift current. Same bait, same rigs but this time we were hooking fish steadily. We caught mostly smaller trout and redfish but brought home one nice trout at 19 1/2 in long along with some whiting that were by catch. Our one bigger red we hooked and fought unfortunately came free from the hook right under the boat. Water temperatures are slowly returning to normal and the fish are getting back into their usual summertime routines.
Jonathan Houston
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Rocketman Charters offers quality guiding from a knowledgeable, experienced, high energy Captain Jon. He works very hard to stay on the bite! If you want to chase Redfish on fly or fill the cooler with flounder Rocketman has you covered. The boat is 19&rs...

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