I had a day "off" so I got to go fishing with buddy Charlie Jones in his boat, the Tommyknocker. We had a bucket full of live blue crab and a pound of big fresh shrimp when we left the Holly Point boat ramp heading for the south end of Amelia Island. We ran through the sound, around the south end and up to the American Beach area to make our first drop in about 15' of water in the lake-like ocean. After about 45 minutes, no bites and the tide about to peak, we pulled anchor and ran back into Nassau Sound, up to the Middle Marsh area, again dropping anchor in about 15-20' of water. The tide had just started out and it wasn't long before we hooked up with a hard fighting 30lb Black Drum built with enough bull and stamina to make his Red cousin proud! But we had some serious tackle - a Penn 6500 on a stout rod with 25lb test line and a 40lb fluorocarbon test leader and after about a 10 minute battle, landed the fish and snapped this picture. We headed in with the sun headed down and only a slight breeze to our back, another great day to be out on the water!
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