Redfish Catchin

Boy what a beautiful day it was today!  I met Mark and Heather Adams at the Atlantic Seafood dock lat this morning, timed to fish the first of an outgoing tide.  We headed north and made our first stop outside of Tiger Island and tossed out some live shrimp under floats.  We picked up a couple of baitstealers and a couple of hungry Seatrout.  We then made a run up to the Jolley River to a large creek and fished as the tide swept out.  We only had a couple of mini bites but both Mark and Heather had spotted some tailing fish on the other side of large oyster bar.  We re-positioned ourselves and this turned out to to be the trick!  Mark had a strong hookup and after patiently working the fish, landed a nice Redfish!  I picked up a Seatrout then it was pure catching for a good while.  We landed a number of feisty Redfish and Mark caught a keeper sized Black "Puppy" Drum and also landed a Sandtrout which gave him an Amelia Island "Grande Slam", of sorts - Redfish, Seatrout, Black Drum, and Sandtrout.  We also caught a keeper sized Croaker and Whiting to go along with a few Pinfish and Perch - the ever present baitstealers.   We made a last stop behind Tiger and picked up a couple of more Reds as the tide eased to a halt, then headed in, counting it as another great day to be out on Amelia Island waters!