Boy what a fishing trip today! I met TJ and Melissa Mahan at the Atlantic Seafood dock in downtown Fernandina Beach at 7am this morning and we headed up towards Tiger Island with a bait well full of mud minnows. The tide was still coming in so I had the anglers toss float rigs to the marsh grass and flooded oysters. First Cast - BAM - Fish On! It was a hungry Seatrout. Both TJ and Melissa continued to catch Seatrout, big Ladyfish, Blues and even a small Black Tip Shark for the next hour and half. Then TJ had a strong bite and good battle with a nice 18" Flounder and Melissa put a keeper sized Trout in the boat. While fishing, we were treated with a sighting of a very large buck deer up on the island. We eventually made a run up to the Jolley River where the anglers again got into some Seatrout and feisty Reds. We saw some Manatee and when they cleared out Melissa had two good hookups with big Reds but these fish had been around for a while. They made a run to the marsh grass and dug there snouts into the oysters, breaking off after an exciting battle. Melissa added one more keeper Flounder to the catch then we headed in, counting it as another great day to be out on Amelia Island waters!
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