Trout and More Trout

Although the wind was kicking just a little bit yesterday, we had a great time fishing the back country waters of Amelia Island on The Anglers Mark.  I had met Brian Brannum, his girlfriend Chelsea, and Brian's brother Brad, at the Atlantic Seafood dock in downtown Fernandina Beach yesterday afternoon at 3pm.  We had a livewell full of live shrimp when we headed out.  I made a couple of stops to see if we could find any Redfish tailing on the last of an incoming tide, but there were none to be found.  We came out from behind Tiger Island and pulled up at a point of grass.  I was showing Chelsea how to jiggle the float rig on our first cast when, FISH ON!  She worked in a nice Seatrout!  The anglers got their float rigs out and continued to catch Trout after Trout - all of them just undersized, but we could have probably sat right there and caught as many as we wanted for the rest of the afternoon.  However, we decided to move and hit one more oyster flooded area before heading up to Jolley River to fish the flooded bank.  Again, the anglers found Seatrout.  These were just a little bit bigger and Chelsea landed a fat keeper sized one.  Both Brian and Brad hooked up with some larger, hard fighting Blues and Brad landed a big Ladyfish which I brought home for future bait.  Brian had switched to a Tempation Bait white fluke on a red-headed jig and was staying busy working the jig from the bank back to the boat and even commented that he was catching Trout that had bypassed the live shrimp the others were offering!  We fished a couple of more areas, then headed in, counting it as another great day to be out on Amelia Island waters!