Late Evening Fish'n

Afternoon fishing trips on The Anglers Mark are a great way to spend time in the backwaters of Amelia Island.  That's IF the afternoon storms will hold off and let you get some fishing in!  Yesterday's trip with Barry and Cindy Shelor who were visiting Amelia Island from Virginia, turned out to get nicer and nicer as the day went on.  The temperatures tend to cool off, and the fishing tends to heat up.  We left the Atlantic Seafood dock at 3pm and headed over to Tiger Island to fish the downed logs.  Cindy had a good hookup and long battle with a fish but just as she was about to get it to the surface, it threw the hook, OUCH!  Barry hooked up and played a nice Puppy Drum a little later.  We moved on to the Jolley River to fish the flooding oyster banks and the anglers had nibblers right off the bat, with both Barry and Cindy honing their hookup skills on small Croaker.  When Cindy switched to a float rig she picked up a couple of  Trout, with one of them over the size limit.  We fished outside of Tiger island, then moved on to the south of Rayonier where the bite seemed to improve with the falling sun.  With Cindy offering sage advice,  Barry was able to find larger, hard fighting Puppy Drum and I joined in with a couple of fat Seatrout.  Barry then had some very strong hookups, both cutting themselves off on the oysters, then, on the third hookup, he battled in a nice Bonnethead Shark.  With the sun heading towards the horizon, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!