Blowing Thru The Bait

The last couple of days of fishing we have blown thru dozens of mud minnows - and that's a good thing! Yesterday (Saturday) morning I had met the Jones family, Kim, Terry and Luke up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park and we headed north west, over towards Tiger.  We were running parallel with Capt. Brian Soucy, he on the inside, and sure enough, he pulled in to where my first stop was going to be!  Hah!  But it all worked out...we kept going and eased in to the Jolley River, dropped the trolling motor, and began to work the "bank".  It paid off.

In no time flat both Terry and Kim began to hookup with small but feisty Redfish, one after another. Luke was on the bow and was making excellent casts but was having no takers until, BOOM! Bigger fish on. Luke fought it from the bow to the stern, wore it out, and landed a nice 21" Slot Redfish. We continued to work that bank and caught umpteen fish - Redfish, Seatrout, Ladyfish,  and a lone Mangrove Snapper.  A bit down the way Luke had another big bite, and Fish On!  He worked it patiently to the boat and put another 23" Slot Red in the boat.

We fished Snook Creek and caught a few more Reds, saw Dolphin busting fishing, then worked around to the MOA where Terry tangled with a big Catfish.  Kim created some excitement when she hooked up and fought to the surface a nice Jack Crevalle.   We made one more stop at Tiger Island but the sun was up, it was getting hot, so we called it day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.