What's Different Between Fishing Fresh Water and Salt?

Variety!  9 different species were caught today: Seatrout, Flounder, Perch, Bluefish, Snapper,
Grouper, Black Drum, Weakfish,  and Red Drum.  Joanna Oestmann had ordered a gift certificate back in February as a Valentine's gift for her husband Eric and then they scheduled today to take the fishing trip.  We met out at Goffinsville Park at 7:30am and headed back out Nassau River to fish the last couple of hours of an outgoing tide.  Fishing an outcrop of oysters at Spanish Drop, Eric picked up a couple of hungry Seatrout.  Our 2nd stop produced no

real bites but we were beginning to see bait fish moving.  We made a run to the mouth of Jackstaff and again the anglers caught a couple of Seatrout with one of them hauled in by Joanna being of keeper size.  She also hooked up with a nice Flounder.  As the tide began to turn we headed back around to Bubblegum Reef and here things really heated up.  The anglers picked up a couple of Blue Fish, a Snapper, and a "bait stealing" Perch, then Eric's rod bent over and the drag ripped out, FISH ON!   He played the fish perfectly and after a few strong runs we netted a nice Black Drum!  Eric went back to the hole and again caught another Black Drum.  The bite slowed somewhat then Joanna had a bite and reeled in a Weakfish.  Eric's rod bent over again but this time the big fish ran instead of bulling down deep.  He went from bow to stern and around the engine before subduing a big Redfish that just squeezed in the Slot!  This put him in a tie for 3rd place in The Anglers Mark 2013 Bragging Rights Tournament - Redfish category. (scroll down right side of this report to see standings)  Eric had one more shot at even a bigger fish.  Eric was working the fish perfectly but it was having none of it.  The fish continued to pull line and even when Eric tightened the drag it just kept going!  I saw that the line on the spool was getting low but before I could get the I-Pilot anchor turned off to chasse it down the line was all gone and popped at the spool!  Darn it!  Boy that was a big fish!  Our last stop was at Broward Island and even though the wind had picked up Eric was able to catch one more Trout. With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!