Back In Action

I had scheduled my boat to be in the shop for a week to get it's 100 hour service and to get the tilt and trip motor fixed but I was back at it today, fishing with long time friends Alex and Laura Winter, their daughter Kelly and her boyfriend Keenan.  We met down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and headed up the intercoastal and began fishing the mouth of Jackstaff with float rigs and live shrimp on the last of an incoming tide.  It didn't take long before all four anglers were making excellent casts and getting good drifts along the marsh line. They had a few nibbles here and there and finally it was Keenan
who "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a hungry Seatrout. But it didn't get much attention because Kelly had a strong bite and she was battling a Shark at the stern. But it made a quick rush and snapped the leader. We fished that bank fully and had a couple of Trout, another Shark bite and we picked  up one two small but feisty Reds.

We ran thru Horsehead and down to Pumkin Hill, still fishing an incoming tide and here Laura was the one with the big bite! Fish On!  The big fish took here bait and headed deep but Laura was up to the task and kept the pressure on, battling the fish around the stern of the boat and working it up to th surface for the catch, some quick pictures, and release. An epic battle!

Both Alex and Laura landed another couple of Reds then we headed over to Christopher Creek to catch that high tide and we switched to jig rigs, with shrimp on the bottom. Kelly put a huge Blue Crab in the boat as we worked along some docks but when we got over to small lagoon things really heated up. Kelly had a strange bite and after she gave it a second or two, she set the hook expertly and had a hookup. She worked to the boat patiently and soon landed a nice 18" keeper sized Flounder. Only a minute later, Alex had the same bite and he too put a 17" keeper flounder in the boat. Alex worked the area thoroughly and landed a hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum and another Redfish or two.

We made another couple of stops but the sun was up and it was getting rather warm, so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.