Fishing Log
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| Crafted from junk lying around on the piers, all of these on-the-spot lures caught fish.* |
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| toothy jack crevalle |
*I'm surprised that the big schools of jack crevalle never showed up this year in the same numbers that I saw in the first two weeks of last November. They'd destroy any kind of artificial lures offered to them. I used jig heads fitted with ear plugs, gasket material, rope, rags, electrical tape, wire, etc. and made spoons cut from soft drink cans. All of them caught fish. If one fish spit a plug, another would pick it up immediately. Often it took longer to dislodge a lure from a toothy mouth than the hook-up had taken. During one 45 minute lunch period, I caught enough jacks to later fill a 38 quart cooler with cleaned filets.
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| Smoker full of mullet filets |
Nov. 24, 1997 - Spoke to Wally today, who said that his neighbor Mat Roland, had dropped by while Wally was smoking mullet. Mat reported that an 18 wheeler left from Mayport last week, filled exclusively with mullet roe and headed for New Orleans, the final destination to be Japan. This year's harvest has been remarkable. Some of the locals are going out at night with seine nets to slay even more of them. Rusty said that one guy had made more than $8,000 in one day.
The finger mullet, and with them, the flounder run seems to have ended, but it's hard to get upset with the bonanza of roe mullet that is keeping anyone with a castnet busy. The weather has been windy and brisk.
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