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Actually, near Shell Point
Another fishing buddy & I met Apalach, by surprise, and set off to welcome in September. Fishing buddy schooled us for the first couple of hours. Before I ever caught anything he'd caught one each of: Trout, Redfish, Croaker, Ladyfish, Catfish, & Jack Crevalle. I spent a lot of time just believing there were fish around and, of course, remarking how nice a day it was. I finally found the ticket was trying to stay near the little bit of bait that was around. My final tally was ~12 trout, 14-19", lots of nice Ladyfish, a Catfish, and four Jack Crevalle. The Jacks were about 3lbs but fought like 10 pounders. Apalach has a photo of one so perhaps he'll post.
Yahoo...

Watch out for old Apalach, he will stop and study the jellyfish just for fun. I guess he can catch something with a backbone every now and then.


Regards,

EJ

Nice day on the pond...were you spinning or flying...I have been wanting to get into some jacks

Chalk wrote:Nice day on the pond...were you spinning or flying...I have been wanting to get into some jacks

Yeah, we have wondered online here about where the jacks were in recent years. I'd really forgotten how they fight. The last one I caught was about 8 years ago. It went near to 20lbs but I had a cobia rod. The smaller ones are incredible on light tackle. They put redfish to shame.
I never did get the fly rod out yesterday, but I will today!

Nice report

I've been running into a lot of smaller jacks as well, but over hard bottom further out.