Mom Puts Fish In The Boat

Scott O'melia and his son Palmer fished with me again this morning on The Anglers Mark and this time they brought Scott's wife and Palmer's mother, Jacquelyn.  Palmer was an old pro with the boat and new where all the hatches, life vests, and bait wells were and was eager to point them out to his mom.  The tide had been coming in for about an hour as we left the Atlantic Seafood dock and headed up to the Jolley River. We anchored at a small runout and tossed shrimp on jigs to the still exposed oysters.  The anglers warmed up by catching a couple of hungry Croaker.  We moved on up into Jolley and I was able to cast net a few dozen perfectly sized finger mullet.  This did the trick and soon everyone was getting bites.  Scott and Palmer caught Blues and Croaker while Jacquelyn had some good hookups and fought to the net a couple of nice Seatrout.  Once, her line tightened and the drag began to rip out, FISH ON!  She fought the fish for a while but it must have gotten across an oyster bed because it broke off after a few minute battle, OUCH!  We eventually moved down to Tiger Island, saw a few Sea Turtles surfacing and caught a few more Croaker, Blues and Trout.  We moved to the front of Tiger and Jacquelyn again had a brief battle with an unwilling large fish, again getting broke off.  But she persevered and as we trolled the beach where hundreds of mullet were milling, Jacquelyn had another good bite and she cranked in a nice 17" Redfish.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be on the water!