Beautiful Day for Fishing

Today's weather was almost perfect!  It stayed sunny all morning,  we had very little breeze, and it didn't get too hot.  I had met Allen Richardson and his son Mark and son in law Jason down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp at 7am and we headed north up the Amelia River to fish Jackstaff on an outgoing tide.  I had mud minnows and live shrimp in the well and we used both under float rigs.  We had trolled the bank for about 25 yards, tossing to the marsh grass, when Jason had a hookup and the first fish of the day, a nice, feisty Redfish! Both he and Allen had found a spot and they

had a good flurry of catching these Redfish and then they added a Trout and a couple of Ladyfish to the catch.  Mark got in on the action and he too landed a couple of the Redfish. Before we left the area the anglers switched to jigs and Mark put a Seatrout in the boat.  We made a run around to the Nassau River and fished "Twin Creeks", with two of the anglers tossing jigs and Jason fishing a float rig along the marsh grass.  I think it was Mark's first cast and he hooked up with Redfish.  He went back to the spot, put another couple of Reds in the boat, then had a weird bite, but FISH ON!  He

worked the fish in patiently and put the first keeper fish in the boat, a nice Flounder.  This rounded out Mark's personal Amelia Island Back Country Slam of Redfish, Seatrout, and Flounder.  We then made a run to Broward Island and even though it seemed conditions were just right, the fish weren't co-operating.  But Allen was able to manage a Seatrout then later Jason had a good hookup and put an nice keeper sized Seatrout in the boat.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing Amelia Island waters!