Seatrout Come On Strong

The last few days of rain and wind gave way to a beautiful day today.  I met Paul and Aimee Kirday, their daughter Abbie and her friend Brooke down at Atlantic Seafood early this morning and we headed north to fish flooded oysters outside of Tiger Island.  The anglers had a few good bites early and Brooke landed a hard fighting Jack Crevalle.  Paul later caught a couple of hungry Seatrout.  We checked out some spartina grass for tailing Reds, saw none, then fished the covered logs behind Tiger but had no real bites.  Our next stop was the Jolley River, fishing the flooded banks, but again had no real bites.  We eased up into the

marsh in a small creek and saw a big 'ole Redfish tailing way out in the middle of a flooded flat!  Unfortunately the flat was surrounded by thick marsh grass and I couldn't find an entry to get the bow into a wade-able area.  We did circle the flat and had some distant shots at the fish (and soon saw that there were more than one fish) but we just couldn't get close enough.  Our next stop was "Snook Creek" and here things began to pick up.  Paul started it off by catching a keeper sized Seatrout then all of the anglers got in on the action.  They caught a good handful of smaller Trout and gradually added keeper sized Trout to the cooler.  Both Aimee and Brooke had keepers and then Abbie caught the only Flounder of the day.   Aimee had a strong hookup with a big fish that took her from bow to stern but this fish just kept going with no intentions of being caught,  After another couple of keeper Trout catches, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!