Discovering a New World

Boy what a gorgeous day out on the water!  The Deltuva family, Tony and Lynn and Andrew were in town for few days and took in an Amelia Island back country fishing trip on The Anglers Mark.  We met at the City marina and headed up river to fish the middle of an incoming tide.  The structure was still showing so we baited up some jigs with live shrimp and fished the bottom slow.  Lynn was the first to hookup and she had a good battle on her hands.  But she played the fish patiently and we soon netted a nice keeper sized Black "Puppy" Drum.  Andrew followed that up with a feisty Redfish then Tony rounded out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam by catching the sneaky, keeper sized Sheepshead !  We fished some flooded oyster beds and Lynn stepped the catch up to a "Grand Slam", landing a hungry Seatrout!  Moving to another flooded oyster, the anglers caught a couple of  snapping Bluefish before we headed over to Cumberland Island to view some wild horses.  We cruised Ft. Clinch and Old Town Fernandina as we were running to our last spot and as we rounded the river bend, there was  Columbus coming to discover America!  The replica ships were coming up the river to dock at Fernandina for a few day stay!  That was a great way to wrap up a day on Amelia Island waters!