The Nassau Sports Fishing Association held their annual Backwater Tournament Saturday and I fished it with friends Tim Parker and Brian Nicely. Tim and I met Friday morning early to get out on the water and see if we could find some fish, and we did! Our first stop was at the Rayonier warehouses and we tried some jigs deep along with a live shrimp floated deep, but had no bites. We moved to a different spot and were really exposed to a 15-20mph wind, but this was where the fish were! We caught a number of Trout in the keeper sized range and had large Slot Redfish taking our shrimp under a float. We also had a 14" Flounder, so if the Tournament was on Friday, we'd have done good! Another spot produced fish, too, with Tim pulling in a nice 25" Slot Redfish, and we both added Seatrout. Saturday morning, day of the actual Tournament found us, along with Brian, launching at 5:30am, with very little wind. After checking in we made a bee-line to the spot where we had caught fish, and sure enough, BAM! Fish on! We caught Seatrout in the legal range until we didn't want any more and added Redfish up to 26 1/2" with all anglers pitching in. Brian was using Tim's Temptation Bait and was keeping up with the live bait catches. Tim picked up a Flounder but it was just undersized. "No Problem", we thought. It wasn't even 9:30am and we had a large Redfish, some decent Trout and we just needed a Flounder to enter the Slam category of the Tournament. It was not to be! We fished Tiger Island, Jolley River, Jefferson Smurfit, and Old Towne and could not find a Flounder. Ouch! But we all agreed that it was probably the best two days of fishing we had ever had and we went home satisfied that we had given it our all and had some great stories to tell, fishing with friends and catching fish!
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