Hammer's early fall time adventures

Although I haven't been capable of fishing with JD lately, he has been finding and tracking down the fish where they hide. This post displays a mixture of spots, fish, people, and scenery in the right combination for your viewing pleasure. Spots In the following pictures range from as far south as the keys and as far north as sebastian and numerous places in between.

As many of you already know, the start of fall means increased gusts, rains, and cold fronts. Each year a huge migration of mullet from the North make a long and daring journey through some of the most dangerous parts of the oceans to curve around Florida and complete the race. Not too far behind the mullet are the medium sized predators that tend to prey on them; ranging from snook, tarpon, jack, redfish, ladyfish, bluefish, small sharks, and much more. Behind the medium predators are the large predators that us shark fishermen pursue for long hours of many days, weeks, months, and years in hopes to catch the fish of our dreams.

JD hasn't put a huge effort into fishing for big sharks yet, he has landed some small bulls and a decent sized jewfish but nothign for the record books. He is much more interested in snook and redfish right now

In his search he found suitable conditions to catch fish:

overcast

rain...bows

changes in pressure

waves

murky, stirred-up water

MOST IMPORTANTLY


bait!

Early run

jd fagans keeper

jd has trouble catching keepers

too big

how the hell did he eat a whole live mullet...

No doubt trout of the year!!!

I think it was 30 inches and next to a 16 incher

Sebastian mullet run #2

over slot

nice fish (20-30lbs)

another one

Sebastian's North Jetty at a glance

that was a slob

Now for the keys, If you haven't ran into jd fagan on one of the keys bridges, you've never fished the keys

time to whip out the new set-up partner

diawa saltist on gator blank from perk's rods

biggest starfish you ever seen!

some shark bait for later.

I get a phone call: Mark!... I got burned in the current at long key. Me: what? JD: yea, I got a 3lb yellowjack on the ultralight ME: haha

Emotions range from the brutal and hardness of the bridges

fagan: I walked this tube lure up and down the bridge for hours looking for cudas and all I got was this measly jack

nice jack and on a tubelure

shark bait

so much bait, what do we do now?

is that a parrotfish picking at the pilings?

a tarpon gulping some air?

must be a manatee?

big jewfish... 250lbs