Biggest Fish Ever

It's great to do a "father/daughter" fishing trip and today I had Gary Krantz and his daughter Madison meet me down at the south end ramp, early.  After tossing the cast net for finger mullet, we made the run up the intercoastal and then into Jackstaff, turned into the incoming tide, and began to fish the bank with jigs and dead shrimp.  It only took Madison a few minutes and she was then making excellent casts. I saw that she had made one about 5 feet from the shore and it seemed like it had just hit the water when she had a big fish on!  She fought it to the boat an landed a big 18" Seatrout - the biggest fish
she'd ever caught!

We fished down the bank and both anglers landed a couple of feisty Redfish then Madison reeled in a small Flounder to claim and "Amelia Island Back Country Slam" of Seatrout, Redfish, and Flounder. She also netted some of her dad's catches.

Our next stop was down at Broward Island to fish the first of the incoming tide there. We didn't get a whole lot of bites until Gary had made a pinpoint cast to the bank, let it sank, then slowly worked it back and, BOOM! Big fish on!  He played it perfectly and soon landed a big 20" Seatrout. (All fish caught today were released).  We moved down the island, fished some logs and caught a couple of more Redfish. The sun was up, the island was blocking the breeze and with some nice catches under our belt, we called it day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.