Celebrity Fishing

We couldn't have asked for a better day for fishing this morning:  just a touch of breeze and some scattered clouds that kept thing real nice out in the back water.  I was at the Atlantic Seafood dock early to meet Roland Langley who was visiting town to participate in the Amelia Island Great Southern Tailgate Cook Off as a Celebrity Judge in the events. Roland had along with him his two adult sons Aaron and Russell and after loading up, we headed out and north to fish the Jolley River during the first hour of an outgoing tide.  I had
the anglers tossing live mud minnows under float rigs up near the grass and it wasn't long before they began to get hookup.  Roland had the hot hand early and landed a few high flying Ladyfish, a couple of Jacks, and a Bluefish.  But the two younger anglers were not to be out done.  Aaron picked up a Jack while Russell landed a Blue and then a hard charging  Bonnethead Shark.  We continued to fish the area and although the trio were getting a few bites but no real takers until Russell's float disappeared and, FISH ON!  We knew right off it was a big fish the way his drag was ripping and
when it stayed up near the shore I felt pretty sure it was a big Redfish.  Russell played the fish patiently and worked it out deep where it bulled down then out, but Russell kept the pressure on and we eventually landed a nice 22" Slot Redfish!  We fished the mouth of Jolley and picked up a keeper sized Seatrout then Russell landed a small Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam of Redfish, Seatrout and Flounder.  He also had another Flounder to the boat but it flipped off at the last second.  Roland hooked up and landed a feisty Redfish along the same stretch.  We made our last stop at Tiger Island and here Aaron had had the hot rod.  Fishing near some logs he hooked up with a nice Redfish then later landed a keeper sized Flounder.  After Roland landed another Redfish we called it a day, another great one to be fishing Amelia Island waters!