Under the Eagles Eye

I gotta be honest - It's kinda of a tale of two opposites: Absolutely beautiful weather, but terrible fish "caching" in the back waters, for the last couple of weeks. And today was no exception - clear skies, sunshine, very little wind (at first), but the fish have lockjaw. I had met Jimmy Miller and his two sons James and Henry down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and we ran up the intracoastal, and up the Nassau to make our first stop at Spanish Drop where we went with float rigs and live shrimp. All three anglers were getting good casts and good drifts but we had no takers. We backed down the bank with the incoming tide and eventually switched to jigs and this did the trick when Jimmy hooked up and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout - skunk off the boat!

We moved down to Twin Creeks and fished it with the float and jigs, then ran down to Pumpkin Hill
and fished it with the floats. At every stop we'd get what we thought were some good bites - the float would disappear but they must have not been big enough to hook. We ran down to Broward Island and fished the north end on that high and incoming tide, something I don't normally do, but I was trying to mix it up. When we pulled up we were treated to a pair of Bald Eagles watching over the fishing effort. Unfortunately they were left disappointed - we had no luck. 

We came back to Nassauville and fished between a couple of docks, then made our way around to Seymore's Pointe on the first of an outgoing tide. Fishing the floats - I think it was Henry's first cast and BAM! Big Fish On! I was thinking it was going to be a small Redfish - it ripped the drag a couple of times - Henry worked it and kept the pressure on as it dug deep under the boat - he worked it up and landed a nice 18.75" Seatrout - almost too big with the new regulations! Boy what a fish! We fished that area for a bit, then ran thru Horsehead and fished a drainage with the floats, then headed back to the ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.