Slayed The Trout

 I wrapped my week up fishing with Todd Johnson and his friend Todd "Raleigh" when I met them up at
the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early. We made a run up the river towards the bridge and dipped into a creek to begin fishing with jigs and live shrimp under some dock pilings This paid off for Raleigh - he pulled a few feisty Redfish out from under that dock. But even better, Todd found a cut to pitch to and it paid off with a couple of big Seatrout catches - they measured right up to 19". Raleigh followed suite and he too picked up a Trout or two.

We came out of that creek and worked further up the intracoastal to fish some structure and again, we found Trout. Both Raleigh and Todd were pitching to a edge of current and letting their jig fall deep with the current and BAM! Trout on. They landed a few there, a couple which were of keeper size, then we move up and Raleigh put another in the boat just shy of 19".

After running all the way back past Fernandina we made our way around to fish the logs of Tyger. We didn't have much action at all until BAM! Big Fish On!  Raleigh was on the rod and played it perfectly - he worked it up from the bottom, let it run, worked it up, let it run and soon tired it out and brought to the net a nice 25" Slot Redfish. Raleigh added a couple of small Flounder catches to his tally.

Another faily long run took us up the Bell where we fished some docks. More Trout and lots of them. And the biggest of the day, just over 19". In addition to many smalls that we tossed back this angling duo rounded out their limit of 5 keeper Trout apiece. We had caught a bunch of fish and had enough for them to feed their families so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fising here at Amelia Island, Florida.