Boy what a beautiful day we had today! Mark DePrimo and I fished early, leaving the dock at 7:30am and heading up to fish the outside of Tiger Island. Mark was tossing a popping bug with an 8w fly rod and making good casts up to the marsh grass over flooded oysters. But we had no takers so we moved around, tried it again, and still had no takers. We made a stop behing Tiger Island, switched to shrimp on a jig, and soon Mark was hauling in a nice keeper sized Sheepshead- his first- and after pictures we released him. Shortly after, Mark hooked up deep and landed a neat Weakfish! But the fish weren't biting as much as weeks past so we made a run to the Jolley River to fish the oyster bars and here things heated it up. Mark was now tossing a float rig with live shrimp and had a good battle with an 18" Slot Redfish. He then caught a Seatrout to round out his Amelia Island Back Country "Grand" Slam of Sheepshead, Weakfish, Redfish and Seatrout! We worked the bank and Mark landed a few more Redfish and a few more Seatrout. We couldn't have ordered up a better day - another great one fishing Amelia Island waters!
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