It was sort of a weird "fish catching day" today when I fished with Garland Clark and his son Kris. We had met down at the decrepit Sawpit Creek boat ramp early to beat the heat, then ran up the intracoastal to dip into Jackstaff and make our first stop at a new "cut" in the bank - it used to be lind with grass but it's washed thru. We could see the Flounder divots up on the exposed mud flat and we could see bait getting smashed along the edge, and as we fished we all three saw a nice Flounder coming flying out of the water chasing bait, but could we get them to take one of our offerings? Nope. But we did get a bite or two and had one close to the boat before we moved on.
Our next few stops were over in the Nassau River fishing drainages. Garland knocked the skunk off when he hooked and expertly played to the net a nice keeper sized Flounder. Kris was fishing off the stern and tangled with a big high flying, hard fighting Ladyfish. He had a nice hookup with a big Flounder that was almost to the boat before it thru the hook. We fished Seymore's for Mangrove Snapper, with no luck, then we fished Littlefield with jigs and this paid off for Kris when he hooked and landed a nice keeper sized Flounder.
We fished Pumpkin Hill on an extremely low tide and boy was it shallow! But Kris went out deep with a jigs and picked up a couple of hungry Seatrout. Garland had a drag ripping bite that took him long - he worked it in slowly and soon boated a nice Black Tip Shark. Then we finished the day down at Broward Island where we picked up one more Trout then Garland put a 14 Spot juvenile Red in the boat.
