Thursday, June 12, 2025
Big Trout and Tourney Red
The Red Hook Gaurantee
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The Limit and One Oversized
We stayed there and picked up two more Slot Redfish (to get their limit) and a handful of smaller ones. We then moved back over to Jackstaff and worked one area where the trio added one more Redfish to their catch. We fished Jackstaff "bank" but after a Catfish or two we called it a day and as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
We Made The Top 50!
Friday, June 6, 2025
Old Dog Teaching Tricks
James. We met early down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp and then made a long run up the intracoastal, all the way up to Poteat Point where we set up to fish float rigs on a tide that had only been going out for about an hour. Using live shrimp as bait, the anglers drifted the marsh grass with the current and right off, the younger Patrick had a hook up off the stern - he played it perfectly and soon landed a nice hungry Seatrout. Bryan was on the bow and found a hard fighting Jack Crevalle that he worked to the boat, then he battled an even bigger one - we thought it might be a Redfish, but boy what a fight! Patrick SR fought a high flying Ladyfish to the boat then they teamed up to land a couple of Bluefish. Young James was "coaching them up" up well thought out suggestions.
After fishing across the river for a bit, to no avail, we ran thru Horsehead and then up the Nassau River to a point at Back River and sticking with the floats, we had good drifts, but no takers. Back down the river we came to Twin Creeks and they all switched to jigs. We fished that drainage then eased down to another drainage and here Patrick SR hooked up and landed a keeper sized Flounder. He put another Flounder in the boat, then a Jack Crevalle. After fishing Spanish Drop for a bit, we made the run up to Seymore's Pointe and fished some dock pilings with the jigs. Again, it was Patrick Sr, teaching lessons, who hooked up and landed a nice 17" keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum. We fished along those docks and added a Pinfish, a Croaker and a Toad fish to the catch variety. James helped his dad work a couple of those fish in. Our final stop was around at Nassauville fishing some rocks - we fished floats and jigs, had plenty of bites but no takers, then we headed back to the ramp, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Had To Work For 'Em Today
After running further up the Jolley. we fished another large drainage. Joey couldn't have had a better drift on his first cast, letting his line out and letting it drift closely down the shoreline. Casey and Brett followed him and all had good drifts, but no real bites. We moved up to Snook Creek, worked it with floats for a bit, then switched back to jigs and worked along the now exposed oysters. Casey picked up another nice Bluefish then Joey, fishing deep off the stern had a strong "thump" and after setting the hook, he patiently brough to the net a big 18"+ Seatrout. Finally! A nice fish!
Further up the Jolley we fished a bend in the river and worked along some exposed shell. Again, Pinfish, and Croaker and even a small Sea Bass, then Brett, after tossing to a cut in the oysters had a strong bite and a hookup. He fought it expertly to the boat, let it run, worked it in, and landed a nice 21" 7-spot Redfish. After fishing the MOA for a while, we ran around to Bell River and fished some docks for a bit, then ran back, all the way around to the Tyger logs and worked them. Joey was making that stern work, he hauled in a Flounder, then Casey followed that up with another Flounder. I think that was the last fish of the day. These anglers had to work for the fish they caught today, but we had a few in the box, so as we headed back to the ramp, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Big Redfish In The Rain
rained when John Foreman, his son Chase and grandson Nate and I ran up the intracoastal to make our first stop at Poteat Point. It rained for about two hours into the trip, but the fish were biting! I think John's first or second cast produced a nice 17" keeper sized Seatrout (the only one caught today), then Chase had a strong hookup on his float rig with live shrimp, and the battle was on! And Chase was up to the battle - he played it perfectly, let it run ripping drag, worked it in, let it run and after a good fight landed an Oversized 28" Redfish, boy what a fish. We worked that bank good - John hooked up and expertly landed a Slot sized Redfish and the trio caught a handful of smaller Reds. Then Chase was again in for the big battle, and this fish was a BIG! Chase fought it from one side of the boat to the other as it dug deep and headed down river but he turned, it worked it in, and wore it out and eventually landed an even bigger Oversized Redfish, this one measuring 29.25". We crossed the creek and fished that for a bit, then made our way around to Jackstaff "bank" and worked it with jigs and live shrimp. We may have picked up a Catfish or two.
there and a few other drainages. Chase picked up another Slot Redfish, Nate landed a feisty Sheepshead, then he and John tag teamed a big 4' Bonnethead Shark. John had a strange "thump", hooked it up and brought to the net a keeper sized Flounder, then further down the river it was Nate's turn to battle a big Slot Red. He played it perfectly, stuck with it, fought it in, and landed the biggest Slot Redfish of the day. We finished up fishing over at some docks where they caught a couple of Catfish before Chase hauled in the last keeper fish, a nice Flounder.
We had gotten wet, but caught big fish, and had a good mess in the box so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Flounder Bragging
We puttered a short distance away to the MOA and began pitching the jigs. In just a short few minutes Clint was hooked up. This fish was ripping some drag and took Clint from the bow, back to the stern, around from starboard to port, then back up to the bow. He played it expertly and after a good battle landed a nice 19" Slot Redfish. There was plenty of bait movement and a bunch of feeding fish but that was all we caught there. We fished back at Tyger logs, worked it good, then made a long run around to Lanceford Creek.
BM1 produced no fish - the wind and current was not working in our favor. We moved further up thecreek, with minutes to go in the trip and Brian, fishing long with a float had decided to reel in and BAM! Big Fish On! Brian worked it in slowly, eased it up off the bottom and glided it into the net - a nice 19" Flounder, big enough to move in to first place in the Anglers Mark 2025 Bragging Rights Tournament - Flounder category (scroll down the right side of this report for standings). We had a few fish in the box, had had some decent action throughout the day, so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Seatrout Symposium Scheduled
Fishing The NSFA Tournament with High School Buddies
we fished the NSFA Rodeo Tournament. Tony French played linebacker our Senior year, Daniel "bubba" Rhodes anchored one side of the line at offensive tackle while I anchored the other side at tackle. A few years ago we lost teammate Raymond Keen who had fished with a couple of those years prior and we always miss him.
We launched early out at Goffinsville Park and made a quick run over to Spanish Drop on the Nassau River and began pitching jigs and live shrimp and mud minnows. We hit a bunch of spots that day - we fished from 6:30am to about 4pm and at least two of us were complaining about sore knees and ankles as the day wore on. Tony "knocked the skunk off" when he caught a keeper sized Flounder, and I followed that up later with another keeper Flounder. Neither were big enough to warrant running them to check in, but they did go in the box!
We fished a few spots up and down Nassau River and picked up a good amount of small Redfish and a couple of Slot sized Reds. One of those that Dan caught was of legal size and had 4 Spots, again, probably not enough to run to check in. We ran thru Horsehead and fished Jackstaff "bank" and caught another handful of Reds, and Jacks. Throughout the day we battled a couple of Sharks to the boat and released. Fishing back in the Nassau we landed more Redfish on float rigs now, over the oyster beds. We ended up catching 4 Slot Reds for the day - Dan had the biggest at 25". We had to release two due to bag limits.