Flurry At The End

I fished with the Thorton boys this morning...Rob and his sons Ford and Whit, meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We ran up thru Middle River and around to Pumpkin Hill to fish the first of an incoming tide and I thought for sure we'd get some nice Seatrout like we did yesterday, but they were having none of our mud minnows. We did get some bites, however and Rob "knocked the skunk off" when he landed a feisty Redfish.

We ran back to Seymore's Pointe, fished some rocks with the float rigs and had zero bites.  Our next stop was back at Christopher Creek, now 
working the jigs and we may have had a bump or two, but no takers. Back towards Seymore's and around thru Horsehead to the mouth of Jackstaff, then up into a creek, and tossing float rigs again on the first of an outgoing tide, and again, no takers. Ouch!

We crossed over and worked an oyster lined bank. We'd been fishing mud minnows all morning long but I had some left over "newly dead" shrimp so the boys began to fish them on jigs while their dad stayed with the minnow on a jigs.  It didn't take long for Ford to hookup and he expertly reeled in a nice Croaker. Then he followed that up with a feisty Catfish. Whit jumped in on the action and he too had a bite, a hookup, and a fish fight on his hands. He played the fish perfectly and soon landed a feisty Black "puppy" Drum. He then "called his shot", went to the mouth of a large marsh run-out and BOOM! Fish on. Whit worked the fish to the boat and put a keeper sized Flounder in the net.

Although things were a tad bit slow, these anglers stayed with it and were able to catch a few fish at the end of the  trip, making for another great day out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.