Three for Three

Jacksonville Florida residents Mark and Nilda Laurint, along with their son Brent, made the trip over to Amelia Island for an afternoon of backcountry fishing on The Anglers Mark.  Brent has one more week before returning to college and this was a great way for the family to spend some quality time.  We left the Atlantic Seafood boat ramp at 3pm and headed up to the outside of Tiger Island, fishing a flooded oyster bar on an outgoing tide with live shrimp under floats.  The anglers had numerous bites from the summertime's everpresent "baitstealers", so we moved on to the docks of Lanceford Creek.  The tide still wasn't down enough, and even though Mark had a nice Trout that I thought would get things rolling, no more quality bites were had.  We made good run around to Jolley River and up to Snook Creek, anchoring and  fishing jig and shrimp combos.  The family had a few good bites, with Nilda catching a couple of Trout and Mark catching a large Bull Whiting and all the anglers hooked up with Croaker.  The sun was inching down, the tide was really out by now, so we made one final stop at "Jolley Bank".  Both Mark and Brent had their first casts in the water when Mark's rod bent, drag ripped, and FISH ON!  Brent yelled, "FISH ON", too, and we had a double!  Brent's was in first, a Croaker, but Mark's was putting up a fight and he was all around the stern and with pro-angler technique, Mark boated a slot sized Redfish!  We got the boat lined up again and this time Nilda's rod bent and she had a battle on her hands!  Despite un-needed coaching she was receiving, she did a great job of fighting the fish and brought to net an even larger, slot sized Red!  Again, we lined the boat up and began our troll and then Brent has a hookup!  This time his line rips out and we can tell that this fish is bigger.  He played the fish perfectly and after a good battle, boated a nice 25" Slot Redfish! Wow, what a way to wrap up a fishing trip - three slot Reds in thirty minutes - and a great way to end the day out on the water!