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My wife and I fished the St Johns out by Mayport yesterday afternoon, but all we did was soak bait for a couple of hours. Decided to switch it up and headed to Ft. Clinch - tried the river-side of the park for the last hour-and-a-half before they closed at sunset. All I caught was an 8-inch Croaker and a tiny (maybe 6") channel cat. My wife managed to skunk me again this trip, bringing in this beautiful 24" Red! Way to go T!
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Caught on 20lb mono with a prefab double-drop rig using 3/0 circle hooks, baited with Mullet. This fish hit the bait about 35 yards off the shoreline just after the tide turned in, and took off like a shot. Her drag was screaming and I thought she got snagged on the bottom until I realized she wasn't cranking her reel - LOL. T looked like a pro with this one (and said later it felt like she was pulling in a body), let him run like crazy until he wore himself out. Fought for a good 10-15 minutes, but ended up in our cooler when all was said and done.
We're gonna have to get a bigger frying pan - LOL!
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Nice red to your wife
I haven't heard of fort clinch, is it on a1a south?

Thanks Goliath - Ft. Clinch is on the north end of Amelia Island. If you head north from Jax on A1A, you pass the entrance to the park on the right on Atlantic Ave (still A1A). Its a bit of a drive through the park to get to the river or beach, but well worth the drive IMO.

Ok, I haven't been above the mayport area too much. Its either use the ferry or a loooong drive to get around to that area. I guess the ferry seems pretty cheap right now.
Have you tried by the coast guard station or the small jetties on the way to the ferrry.

That's where we were - right next to the coast guard station. Lost 3 rigs in the rocks and caught zip - no nibbles even.
As for the ferry - I find that most of the time, its faster to run west on Atlantic and hook up with 9-A rather than take the ferry (it never seems to be on whichever side we happen to be on at the time - LOL). I like the drive up the coast if we have time, but you can shave about 20 minutes of driving time if you take 9-A to I-95 and hang a right in Yulee - fewer speed traps that way as well

If you go to the photo in flickr, then click share, then click on HTML/BBCode, and copy the BB code and paste it into your post you can embed the photo directly into your topic instead of just linking to the flickr page. FYI Nice fish BTW