1/15 - COLD spell over.....Jacksonville Fishing Report

I'm getting tired of reading about the cold weather, dead Snook floating in the ICW, and that the water temp 15 miles offshore is a whopping 50 degrees. So I won't bore you with our weather anomolies. Because today it was warmer......at the house of course. If you were on the water with us it would have been another story. BUT AT LEAST AS IT DID WARM A BIT I WAS BACK IN SHORTS! Yep, by the afternoon it warmed up (1/15). But it wasn't warm enough in the morning yet. I was still in my Grundens wind stopper fleeece pants. Charters from the 8th, 11th, 15th, and 16th we saw a variety of weather conditions. Thats for sure. 43 degree water was the coldest my transducer temp sensor has ever read.....EVER! Highest river water temp was 49.6. You have to fish S-L-0-W. Real slow and feel for the bite. Especially at the Jetties. Fishing Jig-N-Shrimp combo meals, has worked on Black Drum and Reds, but for the begginner. Feeling the bite has been almost undetectable. And it wasn't like we had all that many bites. Although the fish at the inlet are 90% of the time all quality. Having someone from "landlover" Indiana feel that slight hang on the bait, was the tough part. They expect big time saltwater fish to slam dunk them! Whiting, the small brown "boat whiting" have been very consistant down south of the Jax Beach Pier on some hard bottom areas a mile off the beach. If that's your bag. But it isn't mine. Trout. Had two days where we caught some, not plenty. But we caught some. One day it was all 14 inchers except for three, and they didn't even take down the float rig. As of the 15th. Local bait shops had no live shrimp. So for me that meant no Trout fishing. But a dead shrimp still worked on a 3/8ths oz. jig at the jetties. Here's some of our catches from this past week: {%image_id=13638%} {%image_id=13637%} OH IT WAS COLD THIS DAY, BUT THE SMALL TROUT CHEWED. {%image_id=13630%} {%image_id=13631%} {%image_id=13632%} {%image_id=13633%} FISH SLOW....REAL SLOW. AND YA MAY FEEL THE BITE. SUE AND JOE DID. {%image_id=13634%} {%image_id=13635%} {%image_id=13636%} MAKINGS FOR SOME BLACKENED FISH DINNERS AT SINGLETONS SEAFOOD SHACK AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE DOCK, AFTER A DAY AT THE JETTIES...it warmed up too! {%image_id=13627%} {%image_id=13626%} {%image_id=13624%} {%image_id=13625%} {%image_id=13628%} BEAUTIFUL DAY! AND WE FOUND SOME "FATTIES", TOO. ALONG WITH SMALL REDS AND SHEEPSHEAD. Ya' have to take the good with the bad, or it wouldn't be fishing. Even though it's been cold, and windy even. We sure have a good ole time aboard the JETTYWOLF. Lets go chase some Trout before the February 28 day closure. {%image_id=13629%}