Back Country Grand Slam

Denny Coderre fished with me this morning on The Anglers Mark.  We met down at the Big Talbot Island
State Park - Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning with clear skies and very little wind.  After running up the intercoastal waterway for about 10 minutes we pulled into Jackstaff and began to fish the oyster lined banks on a very, very low tide.  Denny was making excellent casts to the bank with his light tackle combo and although he had a number of nibbles there were no good bites.  We moved around to Bubblegum

Reef and things began to heat up.  We landed a few hungry Seatrout, a feisty Redfish and a handful of Jack Crevalle.  Our next stop was at Broward Island and although there wasn't a whole lot of fish bites we did pickup a nice keeper sized Sheepshead then Denny had a really strong bite that took his jig deep.  He played the big fish perfectly and we soon netted a nice 19" Seatrout!  Later we picked up another keeper sized Seatrout.  We made one final stop at Spanish Drop and here we landed  a nice 17" Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Grand Slam of Redfish, Seatrout, Sheepshead, and Flounder.  We also had another strong hookup with a big Slot Redfish that Denny played patiently as the big fish made a number of runs.  The big Red was flopping at the boat and I was within seconds of netting when it made a final run and through the jig, OUCH!   Many times there is a "big one that got away"!  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!