19 Fish

That's the number that young angler Alexis totaled for her personal catch count when the fishing was done today.  I had met her and her Grandad - Bob Miller, his wife Kathy, and their son Chris at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp this morning at 7am and we had run up the Nassau River to fish.  Our first stop was at a large marsh runout or "dump" as one of my buddy's call it.  We were fishing with fresh dead shrimp as there was no live bait to be had at the bait shop.  But the fish didn't care and the anglers began to catch fish right off.  Alexis had the hot rod early and landed a feisty Black "puppy" Drum then a number of Snapper, Croaker and feisty Redfish.  Both Bob and Chris picked up fish, fishing on the bottom with a 1/4oz jig.  Kathy finally got on the board with a nice Croaker.  We moved on up the river with the tide still going out and again caught plenty of Croaker, a few Snapper, added a Seatrout or two, and a couple of Jack Crevalle. Alexis had a Ladyfish to the boat and continued to add to her total fish catch count with a nice hard fighting Catfish.  As the bite slowed I got out on an old oyster bank to cast for finger mullet and 10 year old Alexis followed me to act as my "spotter"!  We ended up with just over a dozen nice bait fish then headed over to Broward Island to fish the very last of the outgoing tide.  The finger mullet did the trick because Alexis soon had a hookup and a battle on her hands!  She worked the big fish in patiently and we soon netted a nice Slot 20" Redfish!  The anglers picked up a couple of more Snapper, Croaker and Chris landed the biggest Jack Crevalle of the day.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!