Small Trout to Big Redfish

Cy Yelk and his friends Jimmy Johnson and Bob Miller set up a Amelia Island backwater fishing trip on The Anglers Mark yesterday evening so we met up at the Dee Dee Bartels boat ramp at 2pm to fish the first of a falling tide.  We made a run up to Jolley River and positioned the boat at a marsh run out and the anglers began to toss live shrimp under Cajun Thunder float rigs up to the grass line.  It wasn't long before they began to hookup with 14" Seatrout.  We edged along the grass and found one good run out that produced another 6-8 trout, then we moved on to "Snook Creek" and anchored.  We had no real bites there so we made run back to Jolley Bank and fished it's shoreline.  Jimmy had the hot rod here and pulled in two hard fighting, head shaking Trout along with a feisty Redfish, all on the float rigs.  We fished behind Tiger Island and picked up one Trout on a jig/plastic grub then we move on to Lanceford Creek to fish the dock pilings with a jig/shrimp combo.  Our first and second stops produce no real bites and I was beginning to wonder if we'd caught all that we were going to catch for the day.  But the tide was getting right, the sun was going down and, FISH ON!  The anglers began to hookup up with hard fighting Redfish and caught them non-stop for the next hour! The fish ranged from 17" on up into the slot with the two largest being 23" and just shy of the upper limit of 27".  This fish put Cy in the lead for largest Redfish in the 2012 Bragging Rights Tournament.   Twice we had double hook ups with fish being fought on both sides of the boat! We also boated 4-5 more Trout to 19", a couple of puppy Drum and a Sheepshead.  With four Trout and four Reds in the box and the sun going down, we headed in, counting it as another great day of Amelia Island fishing!