Conventional wisdom has you stay in the boat while fishing, especially in the soft mud marshes of Northeast Florida ... rushed home to hook my boat on the truck and drove straight to the Mayport ...

Northeast Florida's Matanzas River, which now incorporates a good chunk of the Intracoastal Waterway, is full of baitfish, mostly mud minnows ... think offers the best fishing.

Jacksonville, home of Florida's First Coast ... Jacksonville's marshlands have lots of flooded grass, mud flats, and oyster beds, which are ideal for sight-fishing tailing and backing redfish.