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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.
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We got on the beach about 7 am this morning and stayed for about 4 hours. There were scattered schools of mullet coming by all day, and a few of the schools were quite large. The numbers of mullet are definitely still increasing. We had constant bites from the small Atlantic sharpnose sharks. We pulled in at lease 16 shark pups, which we released. In the end we brought home 4 bluefish. It was a nice day.
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We had a very exciting morning, but first news first -> <strong> the 2014 Mullet Run has begun!!! </strong>Wes and I hit the beach around 7am. W could see all kinds of action out about 150 yards from the beach. The surf was pretty calm, but we could see fish popping the surface of the water all over the place. FIsh were feeding on schools of finger mullet, but there were none running close enough to shore for us to net, so we started fishing with some pink shrinp flavored FishBites. I caught one whiting, then I noticed some mullet hopping over my fishing line
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Not much action today. I tried frozen finger mullet (cut) and fish bites. I had a few good bites, but I only hooked a couple of Atlantic sharpnose sharks. I caught the first one around 9am and the second around 10:30. Both were caught on finger mullet. They were close in size, around 14 inches long.
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My fishing buddy Wes and I got on the beach a bit late. We sat in the truck for about half an hour, waiting out a thunderstorm. Standing in ankle deep water, holding a 10ft long pole, in a lightning storm is generally considered a bad idea. Anyway, we were using shrimp flavored \'Fish Bites\' artificial bait.
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We saw planty of scattered schools of mullet this morning. Netted some for fresh bait. The bluefish were biting pretty steady all morning and we tossed back a handful of 11 inchers. As you can see in the picture above, I caught a flounder as well! I usually only catch about one or two flounder a year in the surf, but I have heard there are some beach spots where you can catch flounder frequently. We had a blast as usuall.
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It was a pretty slow morning. Hardly any bites for most of the morning. I caught the black drum pictured above about 10:30. It was the only action I had for the morning. We grilled this guy for lunch.
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Plenty of mullet in the surf this AM. The bluefish were tearing up our bait whether it was live finger mullet or cut pieces. It seems we hooked more with the cut pieces. The bluefish pass by so fast, when the grab a large bait like a live finger mullet, it can rip off of the hook. You can end up with a lot of good hard strikes, but not much to show for it, but a bunch of reeling practice. The smaller pieces of mullet (I usually cut finger mullet in half) make it more likely for the fish to contact the hook. Anyway, the blues were going nuts out there today and we had a blast. The smallest bluefish in the picture above is at least 12\" to the fork