BIG Grand Slam

I had the pleasure of fishing again with Shawn Boggs and his son Jackson this morning.  The river was like glass as we left the Sawpit Creek boat ramp on a high and outgoing tide.  We headed up the Nassau River and made our first stop at a nice marsh run out.  Fairly early Shawn had a good battle with a hard fighting Jack Crevalle, but after that we didn't get much on the float rigs.  But the minute we switched to jigs on the bottom we began to get bites.  Jackson caught a Jack too, then hauled in a hungry Snapper.  Then he had strong bite and his rod bent and his drag ripped, FISH ON!  He played the fish bite pickup.  The anglers caught fish after fish.  All told they probably had 8-10 Croaker, 5-6 Puppy Drum with one keeper sized, and 5-6 Redfish with one just under 18".  We had a big bite and boy was it BIG!  Jackson worked this fish and the fish worked him back!  The fight went from bow to stern and down deep to the bottom and back up again.  But Jackson won the battle and landed a BIG 23" Sheepshead - probably the biggest Sheepshead ever landed on The Anglers Mark!  Shortly after Shawn hooked up and his fish fought and shook.  He kept

the pressure on and landed a big 21" Seatrout!  And to wrap things up he had another hookup, a big battle - from bow to stern and back again a couple of times - and landed an oversized 29" BIG Redfish!  Boy what a day!  Counting the keeper sized Black Drum, the 23" Sheepshead, the 21" Seatrout and the 29" Redfish I'd call that a BIG Amelia Island Back Country Grand Slam!
perfectly and after an extended battle we landed a nice 24" Bonnethead Shark!   We made a run around to the mouth of Jackstaff, picked up a couple of feisty Redfish, a Croaker or Two and then Jackson again had a big hookup.  This fish fought hard and deep and made big runs but Jackson kept the pressure on and after an even longer battle, landed a big 36" Shark!  We ran back to Nassau River as the tide dropped and the oysters began to show and boy did the