Big Shark and Big Trout

Mike Maron was visiting Amelia Island again this year with his family and set up an Amelia Island back country light tackle fishing trip.  This year there were so many family members that wanted to go fishing he set up a 3/4 day and split the trip between to groups, 3 hours each.  I met Mike and the younger group - his daughter Libby and son Troy at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp at 7am and we headed up fish the Horsehead area as the tide was coming in.  We had live shrimp and dead shrimp as bait, tossing jigs to the grass line.  The anglers worked through a bunch

of Croaker, small but feisty Redfish and Mike had a big battle with a 3'+ Bonnethead Shark.  We made our way around to the Nassau River and caught a few keeper sized Snapper.  Troy landed what I think was the biggest Croaker I've ever had on the Anglers Mark and Libby caught a very nice 18" Seatrout.  We dropped  Libby and Troy off back at the dock and picked up the second crew midway through the trip.  Mike's oldest daughter Haylia and her friend Amelia and then made a run up to Broward Island.  Even though we had to brave some stinging rain along

the way it helped cool us off to get the fishing going!  Here, Haylia added a very nice 20" Seatrout to the box and Amelia hooked up with a keeper sized Flounder.  The anglers also added a couple of more Snapper to the catch and a feisty Redfish.  We made a stop at the "twins" on Nassau River and had a good flurry of bites, catching more Snapper, a small Black Tip Shark, a couple of hungry Seatrout and Mike hooked up and played and even bigger Bonnethead to the boat.  Our last stop was back at Jackstaff where we picked up another nice Croaker and some Jack Crevalle's.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!