We had postponed our fishing trip from Monday until this morning to avoid the higher winds earlier in the week and boy was it a pretty day! I met Barbara and Lou Montresor and their son Kevin down at the Big Talbot Island Park this morning at 7am under clear skies and with just a slight breeze. We headed up the Amelia River to the Horsehead area and began our fishing at the mouth of Jackstaff. The anglers were tossing live shrimp on a jig and almost immediately began to get bites. As I suspected, most of the fish were the summertime, ever present "baitstealers" but they presented a good challenge early. All three anglers knocked the rust off of their casting and got the hang of bumping the bottom. Lou had the hot rod early and caught a couple of hard fighting Jack Crevalle's and a hungry Seatrout. Both Kevin and I had short hookups with a cruising Bonnethead Shark but they were having nothing to do with coming to the boat and broke off. We made a run around to the Nassau River and things heated up. Kevin got hot and landed a "Puffer Fish", then a couple of keeper sized Snapper. Then he had a good hookup and after a nice battle, landed a keeper sized Seatrout. The anglers added Pinfish, Perch and then Kevin landed a hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum. He also picked up a neat Stingray. We made a late run to Broward Island and the fish were really biting here. The anglers caught a number of Snapper, but Barbara landed a feisty Red Drum and then Kevin landed a Flounder to round out an Amelia Island back country Grand Slam of Seatrout, Redfish, Flounder and Black Drum! We were having a hard time keeping track of the variety of fish which garnered a comment from Lou that it was "almost like a science class" catching the number and variety of fish that they did. With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
We had postponed our fishing trip from Monday until this morning to avoid the higher winds earlier in the week and boy was it a pretty day! I met Barbara and Lou Montresor and their son Kevin down at the Big Talbot Island Park this morning at 7am under clear skies and with just a slight breeze. We headed up the Amelia River to the Horsehead area and began our fishing at the mouth of Jackstaff. The anglers were tossing live shrimp on a jig and almost immediately began to get bites. As I suspected, most of the fish were the summertime, ever present "baitstealers" but they presented a good challenge early. All three anglers knocked the rust off of their casting and got the hang of bumping the bottom. Lou had the hot rod early and caught a couple of hard fighting Jack Crevalle's and a hungry Seatrout. Both Kevin and I had short hookups with a cruising Bonnethead Shark but they were having nothing to do with coming to the boat and broke off. We made a run around to the Nassau River and things heated up. Kevin got hot and landed a "Puffer Fish", then a couple of keeper sized Snapper. Then he had a good hookup and after a nice battle, landed a keeper sized Seatrout. The anglers added Pinfish, Perch and then Kevin landed a hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum. He also picked up a neat Stingray. We made a late run to Broward Island and the fish were really biting here. The anglers caught a number of Snapper, but Barbara landed a feisty Red Drum and then Kevin landed a Flounder to round out an Amelia Island back country Grand Slam of Seatrout, Redfish, Flounder and Black Drum! We were having a hard time keeping track of the variety of fish which garnered a comment from Lou that it was "almost like a science class" catching the number and variety of fish that they did. With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
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