Hot Spots Early

I had the pleasure of fishing with Joe Gasper, Adam Blanning and his girls Eliza and Meagan, again this year. It's really neat to see the kids grow up into young adults, and to continue to want to get out on the water and fish!  We met down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and headed up the Nassau River with a tide that still had a couple of hours to go out. We set up along an exposed oyster bed and began to toss jigs and dead shrimp and minnows (no live shrimp today!) and it didn't take long before these anglers were putting fish in the boat. Eliza started it off with a nice Seatrout, Adam followed it up with a feisty Redfish and Meagan added a Red, too. They ended up catching a nice handful of the Redfish and a couple of Trout.

We continued on up the river and found some dock pilings, really exposed, and began pitching to them. Everyone caught fish! Joe started it off with a nice Black "puppy" Drum catch then Eliza had a strong hookup and, Fish On! She played it patiently and even though it made some strong runs to the pilings, she kept the pressure on and landed a nice Slot sized Redfish! Adam didn't have access to the pilings so he was casting deep and picked up a Trout then both Meagan and Eliza caught the Puppy Drum. Joe finished things up when he landed the biggest Trout of the day.

We later fished Broward Island on the first of an incoming tide but the wind had picked up and it made it difficult to fish. After making one more stop back at Twin Creeks and feeding some crabs, we called it  day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.