I had the opportunity to fish this afternoon too, and met Jerry Itzkoff and his friend Steve at the City marina at noon to fish the first of an outgoing tide. We went slightly up Bell River and fished some flooded oysters with float rigs and live shrimp, but had no real bites. Our next stop was outside of Tiger Island, again fishing float rigs, and again no bites! We move on to deeper water and switched to jigs and this did the trick as Jerry picked up a nice fat keeper sized Seatrout. We continued to fish the structure and had a few bites but then Jerry hooked up with a BIG fish, FISH ON! He said it was just a subtle nibble but this fish was putting up a fight. Jerry played the fish patiently and after an extended battle we netted a "Tournament Red", measuring in at 26.25"! Boy what a fish! This fish put Jerry into 2nd place in the Anglers Mark 2014 Bragging Rights Tournament(scroll down right side of this report for standings). After fishing the area a little longer we made a run to fish Jolley Bank but had no real bites. Our last stop was at some docks in Bell River and after getting one bite, Jerry hooked up and put in the boat a feisty Sheepshead to round out his personal Amelia Island back Country Slam. With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!
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