15 years ago I had the pleasure of attending Michael and Abby Stalvey's wedding and today I was honored to be present on their anniversay for an Amelia Island backcountry fishing trip! Mike and Abby couldn't have asked for a more picture-perfect day to celebrate their anniversary - it was cool, but not cold, very sunny and only a slight breeze. We left the Fernandina Beach city marina promptly at 7:30am and headed up to Tiger Island to fish the first of an outgoing tide with live shrimp under Cajun Thunder floats. We had a couple of bites then Mike hooked up with a feisty, hard fighting Redfish. We eased along the shoreline, pitching the float rigs up near the grass and had a few bites, but no real takers. After about 30 minutes we cranked the big engine and ran up to Jolley River, anchoring at a nice runout. Abby's first cast produced a nice Seatrout, which she expertly fought to the boat and waiting net. Then Mike got in on the action, catching Trout and Redfish. Eventually we moved on up the river and found some good Trout action at another nice runout - both anglers were pulling in fish. After a few hours of fishing we made a pit stop at Dee Dee Bartels to stretch our legs, then headed up into Eagans Creek where Abby really turned it on, catching Trout after Trout and putting a couple of nice keepers "in the box". Mike joined in with a keeper Trout, too. We fished the rockpile north of Jefferson Smurfit and the docks in Lanceford Creek and although the fish bite had slowed we all agreed that it was another great day to be out on the water - total fish count -(27) Trout, (5) Redfish, (6) Blue's!
15 years ago I had the pleasure of attending Michael and Abby Stalvey's wedding and today I was honored to be present on their anniversay for an Amelia Island backcountry fishing trip! Mike and Abby couldn't have asked for a more picture-perfect day to celebrate their anniversary - it was cool, but not cold, very sunny and only a slight breeze. We left the Fernandina Beach city marina promptly at 7:30am and headed up to Tiger Island to fish the first of an outgoing tide with live shrimp under Cajun Thunder floats. We had a couple of bites then Mike hooked up with a feisty, hard fighting Redfish. We eased along the shoreline, pitching the float rigs up near the grass and had a few bites, but no real takers. After about 30 minutes we cranked the big engine and ran up to Jolley River, anchoring at a nice runout. Abby's first cast produced a nice Seatrout, which she expertly fought to the boat and waiting net. Then Mike got in on the action, catching Trout and Redfish. Eventually we moved on up the river and found some good Trout action at another nice runout - both anglers were pulling in fish. After a few hours of fishing we made a pit stop at Dee Dee Bartels to stretch our legs, then headed up into Eagans Creek where Abby really turned it on, catching Trout after Trout and putting a couple of nice keepers "in the box". Mike joined in with a keeper Trout, too. We fished the rockpile north of Jefferson Smurfit and the docks in Lanceford Creek and although the fish bite had slowed we all agreed that it was another great day to be out on the water - total fish count -(27) Trout, (5) Redfish, (6) Blue's!
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