John Nuckolls and Dick Bloozer were down from Atlanta this weekend to take in the huge Georgia/Florida football game and being avid anglers, they set up an Amelia Island backcoutry fishing trip! We left the south end dock at 7:30am, just before sunrise, and headed up the Nassau River to begin fishing the exposed oyster banks during the last hour of a falling tide. Dick was tossing a jig/Gulp (white shrimp) and John was casting a jig/paddle tail plastic and it wasn't long before both fishermen were hooking up with Seatrout. They stayed pretty busy with the Trout and every now and then hauled in a feisty Redfish or Bluefish and had a couple of "double" hookups. Some of the Trout were keeper-sized but the anglers were more in to the catching, so they released the fish to be caught another day. We fished a couple of oyster outcrops in the Spanish Drop area then headed around to the mouth of Jackstaff and fished the bank as the tide began to creep back in. The guys had a few good bites, but no real fish, so we headed up a small creek and found more Trout ranging from 12" to 18", then John hooked up with something that hunkered down, but he soon fought a nice 18" Flounder to the boat. We moved around to Seymor's Point where Dick caught another fat Redfish on his first cast to the rocks. Although we had a few more nibbles, nothing was biting, so we crossed the river to Bubblegum Reef and anchored between the now covered oyster bed and the wreck. BOOM! Trout on. BOOM! Trout on. BOOM! Trout on! The guys caught one fish after another for a few minutes then continued to pick off Trout in numbers for another 30 minutes. The sun had risen high and our stomachs were grumbling, so we headed in, counting it as another great day to be out on the water!
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