Stormed Out

I fished again with Daniel and Paul Tillotson this morning, this time meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We had a tremendous storm cell that passed over NE Florida last night and it dropped a ton of rain and left cloudy skies today. We ran up the Nassau River and stopped at some docks at Seymore's to fish the pilings on a tide that was still going out. The two anglers were tossing jigs and live shrimp and making excellent casts, but all we got was nibbles.

We moved around to another dock, fished the bank with float rigs, had some bites, then Daniel hooked up and, Fish on! He played it patiently to the net and landed a nice Slot sized Redfish. After fishing for a while and only getting nibbles, we made the run down to Broward Island. With a 9mph West wind blowing it seemed to be keeping the tide from coming back in. We had switched back to jigs, fished them deep and slow, but again, just nibbles. After fishing Pumpkin Hill briefly with floats, we ran back to Seymore's Pointe and picked up a hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum. One more stop over in Jackstaff produced nothing but.. nibbles...so we called it a day, rather slow, but still, a great day to be out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.