Brian Corbett and his family were visiting Amelia Island, Florida for the New Year holiday and so he scheduled a light tackle fishing trip with his two sons Conner and Kiernan and his nephew, Knox. We meet up at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp at Big Talbot Island park yesterday morning and headed up the Nassau River in
The Anglers Mark with the tide having already turned and coming in for about 3 hours. The back country water temperature was 53 degrees when we made our first stop and began to fish live shrimp under floats and live shrimp and mud minnows on 1/4 oz jigs. Almost immediately Kiernan hooked up and had a feisty Redfish on. The other anglers joined in and had hookup after hookup of hungry Redfish and Seatrout. Knox landed a 9-spot Redfish and Brian hooked up with a Sheepshead to round out an Amelia Island back country slam, of sorts. When we made a move to deeper water Conner added a keeper sized Trout to the cooler then he "called his fish", putting on a fat Cocahoe minnow and tossing it deep to the rocky shoreline. BOOM! FISH ON! This Redfish wasn't a rat, for sure! He played the fish perfectly and after a long battler with two or three drag ripping runs, he landed a nice, 28 1/4" oversized Redfish! We snapped some pictures, measured the beast, then sent him on his way to be caught another day! We hit Bugglegum Reef at dead high tide and had very little action then move on around to Jackstaff and up into a shallow creek. The anglers again had some hot action, catching a good handful of Trout then a whole mess of hungry Blues. Moving out into deeper water they got back into the trout and wrapped up the day catching fish down to the very last shrimp! With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
Brian Corbett and his family were visiting Amelia Island, Florida for the New Year holiday and so he scheduled a light tackle fishing trip with his two sons Conner and Kiernan and his nephew, Knox. We meet up at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp at Big Talbot Island park yesterday morning and headed up the Nassau River in The Anglers Mark with the tide having already turned and coming in for about 3 hours. The back country water temperature was 53 degrees when we made our first stop and began to fish live shrimp under floats and live shrimp and mud minnows on 1/4 oz jigs. Almost immediately Kiernan hooked up and had a feisty Redfish on. The other anglers joined in and had hookup after hookup of hungry Redfish and Seatrout. Knox landed a 9-spot Redfish and Brian hooked up with a Sheepshead to round out an Amelia Island back country slam, of sorts. When we made a move to deeper water Conner added a keeper sized Trout to the cooler then he "called his fish", putting on a fat Cocahoe minnow and tossing it deep to the rocky shoreline. BOOM! FISH ON! This Redfish wasn't a rat, for sure! He played the fish perfectly and after a long battler with two or three drag ripping runs, he landed a nice, 28 1/4" oversized Redfish! We snapped some pictures, measured the beast, then sent him on his way to be caught another day! We hit Bugglegum Reef at dead high tide and had very little action then move on around to Jackstaff and up into a shallow creek. The anglers again had some hot action, catching a good handful of Trout then a whole mess of hungry Blues. Moving out into deeper water they got back into the trout and wrapped up the day catching fish down to the very last shrimp! With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
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