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Jacksonville Beach - Wes and I got tho the beach about 7:30AM. It was windy (and cold) but there was not much of a current. It was high tide around 8am, so we were fishing in some good deep water. I didn't see any mullet in the surf, but things were pretty churned up. We had steady bites from the bluefish all morning and took home a dozen. We had a blast.
I fished a couple of hours Saturday morning as well. Brought home two bluefish, after a crazy encounter with a seagull.
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Jacksonville Beach - We had some of the neighborhood kids join us, on the beach this AM. We got to the beach around 7:30am. Conditions were similar to the day before, when Wes and I caught over 30 fish. Two of the older boys, around 11yrs old, were big enough to handle the rods themselves, so we got them rigged up and in the water. Within 30 minutes both boys had landed bluefish, both around 18 inches long. The boys were very excited, and went on to catch several more bluefish. I didn't see any mullet in the surf, but I threw the net a few times anyway. I didn't net a single mullet, so we used some of our freezer stock. we used up about 2 quart bags of frozen finger mullet in about 2 hours, and took home 10 fish. The boys had a great time and we got some good pictures of them hauling in some good size blues.
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Jacksonville Beach - Wes and I got to the beach around 7:30am. The tide was coming in with high tide around 9:30. There was a lot of mullet in the surf. In fact, finger mullet were bumping into my feet, in the ankle deep water. We hooked up some finger mullet and tossed them out. The bluefish started bitting right away and we kept hauling them in the rest of the day. There was plenty of bait in the surf, and we netted what we needed. We had blast as usual.
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Jacksonville Beach - I got down to the beach about sunrise, which was about an hour before high tide. I hooked up some finger mullet and started getting hits from bluefish imediatelly. I caught a couple of blues around 18inches in the first hour. I had lots of bites throughout the day, and there was plenty of mullet in the surf. I caught a couple more blues around 11am, then called it a day. The weather was beautiful, and it was awesome day all around.
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Guana River Mid-Beach Access - Since it was about mid-tide at Jacksonville Beach, Wes and I decided to drive down the coast a bit, and try to find some deeper water. We ended up getting on the beach at Guana River State Park, Mid- Beach Access. We were using finger mullet that we froze a couple of weeks ago, for bait. We had a lot of action and ended up with 4 bluefish. Wes also caught a good size shark. We had a blast as usuall.
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Jacksonville Beach - We had some trouble with rough surf and currents that kept washing our lines back in today. We still had plenty of bites, though, which felt like bluefish most of the time. We caught a few bluefish and got lots of reeling practice as our bait was constantantly washed up on the beach to the south of us. We had a blast as usual.
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Wes and I got to the beach at about 6:45, just after sunrise. There were very large schools of mullet running in the surf about 50 yards out. It almost looked like the water was boiling with so many mullet. Huge splashes and swirls in the schools showed that some larger fish were feeding on them. The mullet were a little to far out to reach with the cast nest, so we started off fishing with some from the freezer. I caught a couple of small Atlantic Sharpnose sharks in the first few minutes. It was a little slow for a bit, then Wes hooked a good size Bonnet Head Shark, which gave him a nice fight. It was a full grown adult a bit over 3 ft long. Since we planned to eat the shark. I cut it behind the head and at the tail, to kill it and bleed it. I always bleed them as soon as possible, which helps get rid of some of the amonia smell and taste in the meat. After that we caught eight bluefish. It was a beautiful day and we had a blast. It\'s cooling off a bit now, so it\'s a little more enjoyable even in the middle of the day
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We started a bit later today. Actually I wasn\'t going to fish today, but Wes called and had a friend visiting and they wanted to fish. Since it was already about 10 am on a holiday weekend, I suggested we try a different spot, so we wouldn\'t have to fight the crowds. We drove south a bit to the Middle Beach Access park, just south of Ponte Vedra on A1A. The beach was wide open, just south of the boardwalk, so we set up to fish. I brought along 3 quart bags of frozen finger mullet, just in case we couldn\'t net any. The tide was coming in and I could see some scattered scholls of mullet coming by, but they were too far out to reach with the cast net. We ended up using all the frozen bait. It was a little slow at first, but the blues started biting before long. After about 3.5 hours in the midday sun, we had 10 blues in the cooler, and were out of bait. It was a fun day, I got a little sun burned, but we had a blast.