BooKoodles

I met the Owensby's, Tom and Kevin, down at the south end early this morning - their first time fishing "south" from the many times that they have fished here at Amelia Island. It was a beautiful morning as we ran up the Nassau River with a couple of hours of the tide still going out. We stopped at a large marsh drainage and both anglers began to pitch jigs and live shrimp to the bank. It took a while but when the "bite" began" they were catching bookoodles of fish. Many of the fish were juvenile Redfish but every once in a while they would get one that had some size. Then they'd tie into a hard fighting Jack Crevalle and have fun fighting that battle. A couple of Ladyfish were landed in the mix.

We moved on up to some docks at Seymore's Pointe and again, we had some good action. The duo landed a good handful of small but feisty Black "puppy" Drum, a couple of Croker and, a Catfish. We hit Bubblegum Reef briefly, picked another Catfish or two, another Croaker, and a golden colored Seatrout,  then bounced over to the rocks at Seymore's to try our luck with float rig. The tide was still going out and although these anglers were making excellent casts, we had no luck.

Our final stop was down at Broward Island and boy was the tide down....and STILL going out!  The water was a clear Coca-Cola color and almost all of the stobs were exposed. We worked almost the entire island, bait was everywhere, but we didn't have much luck. Although the bite slowed as the day warmed, we had some really good action early so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.