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Welcome!
Amelia Island offers a wide variety of angling opportunities including for large groups, family and for the hard core "Big Game" angler.
Deep sea fishermen will have the opportunity to reel in a wide variety of saltwater species within a short boat ride from the St. Mary's inlet.
However if you enjoy shallow water backcountry fishing, Amelia Island is the spot to test your angling skills! Freshwater bass fishing is excellent in many of Northeast Florida's freshwater rivers and lakes where world record largemouth bass have been recorded.
Amelia Angler Outfitters can schedule fishing and sailing, group charters to Cumberland Island and the "Dungeness" ruins, catered cocktail cruises and family fishing fun.
Daily Fishing Report
May 4, 2012
Photo - cobia are here ! Captain Terry D Lacoss pictured on right guided Fred McKlaip to this huge 63-pound cobia while fishing aboard the Amelia Angler II.
Gag grouper season opened May 1st!
Warming ocean water temperatures are attracting a wide variety of migratory game fish into Amelia Island waters. Include excellent eating and fighting Sanish mackerel weighing to 5- pounds, red drum weighing to 50-pounds, cobia weighing to 70-pounds, a wide variety of pelagic sharks weighing over 200-pounds, barracuda and the fast swimming king mackerel.
"Amelia Angler Oufitters" was recently showcased on the "Florida SPortsman Fishing Show" Sun Sports channel. Go to www.floridasportsman.com then click on TV shows for up coming shows. The TV show is listed #1 under First Coast.
Best bets- Amelia Island sea trout and red fishing just doesn't get any better during the month of February! Fishing parties are hooking up to limit catches of excellent eating and hard fighting redfish and sea trout within eyesight of the Fernandina Harbor Marina. Warming water temperatures along with an abundant supply of bait fish including mullet, shrimp and blue crabs are key. Some of the more productive redfish lures including gold spoons, in-line spinners and fishing with Berkley Gulp shrimp fished dead in the school of reds and retrieved slowly on the bottom is key. Flounder, redfish and sea trout are taking live shrimp drifted under a "Popping Float".
Largemouth bass to 12-pounds are available in local freshwater rivers and lakes. Fishing with live shiners in the deep turns of rivers is key.
Offshore fishing charters are enjoyng excellent drift fishing action in water depths from 60-100 feet of water. Flounder, black sea bass, sheepshead, reef sharks, cobia,trigerfish, amberjack, gag grouper, red snapper, king mackerel, barracuda and the occasional dolphin are running at offshore wrecks, ledges and hard bottoms.
Blue water charter boats have been catching blackfin tuna weighing to 30-pounds at the "Big Ledge", which requires a 12-hour charter. Wahoo weighing to 70-pounds are also running in water depths from 180-1,000 feet of water. Dolphin are now running as well and weighing to 30-pounds.
Surf fishing is producing catches of whiting, blues, puppy drum, redfish and spotted sea trout during the last of the incoming and the first few hours of the falling tides. Fish on the bottom with ultra fresh shrimp. Casting a 1/4 ounce led head jig rigged with a 2-inch molten colored Berkley Gulp shrimp is also working well for a variety of sruf species. The 52-M Mirror Lure is an excellent choice when casting to sea trout and blues that are schooling in the surf.
New Location!
Our new store location is 111 Centre St. Fernandina Beach, Florida. Just a half a block from the marina. We now carry a full line of backwater redfish and sea trout tackle including those hard to find topwater plugs. Also fly fishing gear including Umpqua, Reddington, Sage, Rio and more. A fishing school is also on the calender with classes on backwater spin, fly and casting, techniques, live and dead bait fishing, topwater fishing and how to beat the tides!
For more fishing information, call the Amelia Angler: (904)261-2870. Cell (904) 753-3776
Terry Lacoss/Amelia Angler
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 Captain Terry David Lacoss
Captain Terry Lacoss is one of the most knowledgeable and at the same time nicest fishing experts you�ll ever find. He�s the total fishing man. He runs Amelia Angler Outfitters, and also is an accomplished outdoor writer, having authored the books Sportsman�s Best: Redfish and the Southern Kingfish Association-produced Kingfish book.
Captains Terry & his son Terry David Lacoss are one of the most successful father / son fishing teams in the country, having won national bass, kingfish and redfish events including the ESPN Cocodrie, Redfish Cup, Johns Pass Kingfish and Florida Bass Trails.
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