It's RED HOT in Jacksonville, Fl

Mike Powell is an experienced angler that prefers to target Trophy Fish with Artificial Lures. Mike and I departed St. Johns Marina boat ramp at daylight. There's nothing like the sound of a brand new MERCURY ProXS starting up at sunrise. Within minutes of our first stop you could hear another great sound, Mikes DRAG was SCREAMING We were using 5 inch YUM Sonar Minnows and they were a perfect match for the forage in the river. Mikes 1st two fish were absolute giants. Unfortunately they broke us off, but we ended up going 3 for 5 on bull redfish. All 3 fish were true trophy fish over 40 inches long and all out bites were on artificial lures. Mike caught 2 and insisted that I catch one. Our arms were cramping and we probably could have caught more but we decided to take a boat ride and scout for tarpon knowing our chances were slim this early in the summer. No Tarpon this time but it won't be long.