October Grande Slam at Amelia Island

 As we worked thru today we began to tally up a good mess of fish! I had met Jack Dickens and his fishing buddy Wally down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and as the sun came up we made the run up thru Middle River and around to Pumpkin Hill. I was expecting the tide to be a bit higher even though it was going out and we may have "bumped bottom" as we left the Middle River and entered the Nassau! But we made it around to Pumpkin and began tossing float rigs and live shrimp to the shore line. The current really wasn't running much but it was fairly quick when Jack "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a nice feisty Redfish. We moved around and into Pumpkin and again, Jack had the hookup up near shore and brought another Red to the boat, this one with 8 spots. 

Our next stop was down the Nassau at Spanish Drop. Wally got in on the action and boated a couple of feisty Reds and a small Trout or two. We moved up to Twin Creeks, had not a bite, then moved on up to Athens Drop where we again picked up a Red or two. 

We made the run back to Seymore's Pointe and set up current from some docks and here the action heated up. Wally put three keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum  in the boat, all caught on shrimp and jigs while Jack landed a keeper sized Weakfish. We played cat and mouse with the Mangrove Snapper then we had a strong hookup and, Fish On! Wally was on the rod and he patiently worked to the net a nice Slot sized Redfish. 

The tide had reached  bottom so we went back to Athens Drop and the move paid off. BOOM! Fish on - this time Jack was on the rod and he played it perfectly, landing another Slot sized Redfish. We picked up a keeper Trout out deep to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Grande Slam of Redfish, Weakfish, Black Drum, and Seatrout.....In the Box!

After fishing Spanish Drop for just a bit, we headed in and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.