This time of year, as winter flirts with us, these brutal cold fronts drop our ocean temps. With the lower water temps, this begins the southerly migration of the Black Sea Bass. They have recently started to arrive to our waters and should improve between now and March when spring will bring the water temps back up, which will push these fish back to the North. They are one of the best eating fish we catch here during any time of the year so they are a great delicacy! Get em while they are...

On Saturday December 12th, 2020 we ran a 12 hour trip out of Jacksonville. We had a total of 56 triggerfish, around a dozen vermilion snapper, a few porgies, 3 mutton snapper, 2 mangrove snapper, a scamp grouper, a kingfish, a jack, and lost several other big fish! Overall it was a great day with plenty of bent rods and a ton of filets!  

Although any trip you choose this time of year can be extremely entertaining, the grocery getter trips are the 10hr and 12hr bottom fishing trips. The longer trips get you between 40-70 miles offshore where you have a much better chance on catching a grouper such as gags, scamps, and red grouper; You also have a good chance of snapper you can keep like mangrove, mutton, yellowtail, among others like silk snapper, etc.. Triggerfish, red porgy, vermilion snapper, amberjack, almaco jacks, are...

As we are changing seasons, even though Northeast Florida really doesn't have true seasons, this time of year is both productive and entertaining, but maybe not on all trips we offer. On the 4hr and 6hr trips, there are plenty of opportunities to catch plenty of fish and have a lot of fun, but it is mainly red snapper which have to be released. There are a few fish to keep like ringtail porgies, a few se bass, beeliners and an occasional triggerfish. Once we get some cooler weather the water...