Just Enough To Make it A Day

 I fished the last two days with Georgia fans, down for the big game, and boy did we have to work for the fish! Both days dawned with cloudy skies and a breeze that was forecasted to increase to a blow. Sure enough, the forecast was right!  Wednesday I fished with William Blalock and we launched out of Goffinsville Park. We made our first run over to the Spanish Drop area and began pitching jigs and minnows to the bank. We picked up a couple of Trout doing that and that's how the morning went - a Trout here and there with none over 14 1/2".

Yesterday I fished with Brian Roach, William, and their buddy Mark, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels park boat ramp. We ran over to behind Tiger thinking we'd be out of the breeze and it was slightly blocked. Brain knocked the skunk off with a small Seatrout catch, then William picked up a small Flounder. So the work began!

We made a long run around to Lanceford Creek and fished a dock or two with the jigs and live Shrimp. The shrimp were

getting nibbles, but no takers, until Brian hooked up with something big. He worked to ti the boat and landed a nice 20" Black "puppy" Drum. All keeper sized fish caught today were released.

After moving down the creek and fishing a small grassy patch and a bulkhead with float rigs, to no avail, we moved on. Our next stop was up Soap Creek and boy the wind and current was really kicking. Even with that, these anglers had some good drifts, right thru the "honey hole", but no takers.

As we were passing by Rayonier's retention pond I noticed that the wind was blocked a bit so we stopped and fished and this turned out to be the hottest spot of the day! All three anglers caught those 14" Seatrout then Brian hooked up and landed a nice 17" Flounder, again, photographed and released. 

Our next and final stop was around at Piney Island, anchored out of the wind and fishing between two docks. Brian and William were on the bow fishing jigs to the pilings while Mark and I were fishing the grass edge with float rigs. We were getting pretty good drifts and after a slight "jiggle" of the float something big took the minnow and, BOOM, Fish On!  Mark was on the rod and played it patiently to the net - a big 18 1/2" Seatrout - the best Trout we've had in weeks. Mark went back to the grass and had another quick hookup. This Trout turned out to be another of keeper size which made for a great way to wrap up a Georgia/Florida fishing trip here at Amelia Island, Florida.