Saturday, March 13, 2021

Uptick In The Fish Bite

 

Another beautiful day with warmer temperatures, both air and water, seem to have helped with the fish bite. 

This morning I fished with Mark Richardson and his son Braden, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp. We fished Bell River, Soap Creek and Lanceford Creek with float rigs and live shrimp and picked up a Seatrout at each spot on high and rising tide. 

Just as the tide started out we had made the run up to Bell River docks and switched to jigs and shrimp and we had a "break out" catch. The father/son duo caught a good handful of Seatrout on the bottom, picked up a handful of small but feisty Sheepshead. They also added a feisty Redfish to the catch. We fished a couple of those docks and picked up more Trout.




This afternoon I fished with Tod Schroeder, his dad Dennis, and his daughter Alana, again meeting them at the Dee Dee Bartels Park. We quickly made the long run up the Bell and it paid off with some nice Seatrout catches on the bottom  on jigs and live shrimp. Alana topped the catch with the biggest Seatrout catch of the day - a 16"er.  We also had some small but feisty Sheepshead and a feisty Redfish.

We fished a bit in the Jolley River until the tide started back in then ran around and eased in to behind Tiger. Here the trio caught a few more Redfish, two of keeper size and again, Alana pulled out the biggest Redfish. 

Both trips caught fish and had some good action which made for another great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida. 

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