Thursday, December 29, 2011

Amelia Island Christmas Fishing

My daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter were in town for Christmas so the day after Nathan and I found a little time to get out on Amelia Island waters and do some fishing.  We also had their dog, Brindle with us.  We waited until later in the day, launching around 11am at Atlantic Seafood on a high and falling tide and headed up to Eagans Creek to get shelter from a 10-15mph wind.  We fished one new spot and had no bites so we headed over to Lanceford to fish the still flooded oyster beds.  We weren't there long before we had a good hookup with a Redfish but after a brief battle it broke off on the oysters, OUCH!  We did pick up a couple of small Trout.  We found some docks to fish on the last of an outgoing tide and this was the ticket.  Nathan hooked up with a feisty Redfish then I caught one, too.  We ended up catching 5-6 Reds and Nathan had one in the Slot and he also picked up a hard fighting Puppy Drum.  We ended the day at the Rayonier warehouse and caught some keeper sized Trout, then headed in, counting at as another great day to be on the water!

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