Let the Sun Shine!

 Finally! What a beautiful day! I had met Hank and Pam Holbrook up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early this morning and before long the sun was shining which made for an outstanding day to be out on the water. We skipped across to the outside of Tiger and fished the very last of a (very) high incoming tide with float rigs and live shrimp. We had no bites there so we ran thru Tiger, made a pit stop to see if we could see any "tails" then continued on in to Bell River where we set up near a large flooded oyster flat and this did the trick. 

Pam did us the favor and "knocked the skunk off" when she hooked up and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout (all fish caught today were released) then we had some good action, catching Trout on the float rigs. Hank joined in and landed a good handful himself.

We ran down the Bell and up the Lanceford to fish "Millie's" Spot and this paid off, too. Pam caught a Trout and Hank tangled with the biggest fish of the day...this one was pulling some drag, but it
was not to be...it thru the hook to be caught another day.

After bouncing back to Soap Creek we set up at a large marsh run out and this had some action, too. The duo caught a handful of Seatrout to keep things going. After working the bank a bit we came back out and fished BM's Spot but had no luck. I thought that was a bit unusual because we usually pick up a fish there most visits. After fishing some oysters along the Bell with jigs and shrimp and minnows, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.