Jack Viertel has been visiting Amelia Island as a "working vacation" and took in an Amelia Island back country fishing trip on
The Anglers Mark. He has been staying at the historic and beautiful
Fairbanks House which is located just blocks from the
Atlantic Seafood boat ramp. We made our way out of the marina at 7am and headed up to fish outside of Tiger Island with the tide high and coming in. Our first stop was at "Manatee Creek" where I dropped the trolling motor and Jack began to toss a topwater lure to the marsh grass edge. There was absolutely no movement of bait fish or feeding fish so after working a bank we moved on around to fish the Tiger logs. The tide was really up by now but we had a few spots where we could toss a jig and mud minnow and after a brief time we had a hookup and, FISH ON! Jack played the fish patiently as it made strong runs from bow to stern then dove deep under the boat. But Jack kept the pressure on and eventually we were able to land a nice 21" Slot Redfish! We continued to work the bank and although we had a number of bites we had no takers. Our next stop was up to Jolley River and here we had a good flurry of bites and caught a handful of hungry Seatrout on float rigs. Further up into the river we picked up another Trout and a couple of nice Snapper. Our last stop was some docks in Bell River where we picked up one more Trout to round out another great day of fishing at Amelia Island.
Jack Viertel has been visiting Amelia Island as a "working vacation" and took in an Amelia Island back country fishing trip on The Anglers Mark. He has been staying at the historic and beautiful Fairbanks House which is located just blocks from the Atlantic Seafood boat ramp. We made our way out of the marina at 7am and headed up to fish outside of Tiger Island with the tide high and coming in. Our first stop was at "Manatee Creek" where I dropped the trolling motor and Jack began to toss a topwater lure to the marsh grass edge. There was absolutely no movement of bait fish or feeding fish so after working a bank we moved on around to fish the Tiger logs. The tide was really up by now but we had a few spots where we could toss a jig and mud minnow and after a brief time we had a hookup and, FISH ON! Jack played the fish patiently as it made strong runs from bow to stern then dove deep under the boat. But Jack kept the pressure on and eventually we were able to land a nice 21" Slot Redfish! We continued to work the bank and although we had a number of bites we had no takers. Our next stop was up to Jolley River and here we had a good flurry of bites and caught a handful of hungry Seatrout on float rigs. Further up into the river we picked up another Trout and a couple of nice Snapper. Our last stop was some docks in Bell River where we picked up one more Trout to round out another great day of fishing at Amelia Island.
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