Hooray! Today was the first day in over a week that we didn't have double digit winds! I had met the Wasserman family - Michael and Ali along with their two kids Annie and Corie, down at the City marina for an early morning Amelia Island back country fishing trip. We headed north with only a slight breeze, but overcast skies and made our first stop outside Tiger Island at "Manatee Creek" to fish with live shrimp under floats. We had no bites there and across the creek so we moved on up into the creek as the high tide finally started to come out of the marsh grass. After not getting any real bites we moved back around to the front side of Tiger and even though we only had one "bait stealer", I could see that some fish were beginning to get active. We made our last stop as the tide began to really move out and the fishing heated up! Young Annie hooked up and boated a feisty Redfish, then landed another shortly after. Corey had a hookup and the two young anglers began to "double team" the fish with one holding the rod and the other reeling! They worked out a great system and landed fish after fish from their secret spot. Then dad Michael got in on the action and picked up a few hungry Seatrout then began to pickup Redfish, too. Ali was snapping pictures of the fishing team as the action continued. Corey reeled in a nice Flounder to round out the family's Amelia Island Back Country Slam and they all stayed busy fishing up until the last minute. I had told the kids that they should always tell the truth but it was sometimes OK to fudge the truth in fishing so when Corey announced that they had caught 1000 fish we all had a good laugh! With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
Hooray! Today was the first day in over a week that we didn't have double digit winds! I had met the Wasserman family - Michael and Ali along with their two kids Annie and Corie, down at the City marina for an early morning Amelia Island back country fishing trip. We headed north with only a slight breeze, but overcast skies and made our first stop outside Tiger Island at "Manatee Creek" to fish with live shrimp under floats. We had no bites there and across the creek so we moved on up into the creek as the high tide finally started to come out of the marsh grass. After not getting any real bites we moved back around to the front side of Tiger and even though we only had one "bait stealer", I could see that some fish were beginning to get active. We made our last stop as the tide began to really move out and the fishing heated up! Young Annie hooked up and boated a feisty Redfish, then landed another shortly after. Corey had a hookup and the two young anglers began to "double team" the fish with one holding the rod and the other reeling! They worked out a great system and landed fish after fish from their secret spot. Then dad Michael got in on the action and picked up a few hungry Seatrout then began to pickup Redfish, too. Ali was snapping pictures of the fishing team as the action continued. Corey reeled in a nice Flounder to round out the family's Amelia Island Back Country Slam and they all stayed busy fishing up until the last minute. I had told the kids that they should always tell the truth but it was sometimes OK to fudge the truth in fishing so when Corey announced that they had caught 1000 fish we all had a good laugh! With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
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