Big Jack

I kicked the week off fishing with Tate Taylor and his three sons Julian, Bennett, and Trey.  We met at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp and headed up the Amelia River and into the Horsehead to fish a tide that was coming in and already covering the oysters.  I had two of the anglers forward tossing jigs and two on the back tossing float rigs, both with mud minnows as bait.  It took a while but every once in a while one of the quartet would remark that they had a bite, then it finally happened, FISH ON!  Julian had hooked
up with something big!  It ran kinda like a shark but it didn't.  It fought kinda like a big Redfish, but it didn't.  The big fish took Julian from stern, up the port side, around the bow, back to the stern and back to the bow.  But Julian kept the pressure on and fought the fish to the surface when we saw and netted a big Jack Crevalle - the biggest of the year on The Anglers Mark!   Now that's the way to "knock the skunk" off a boat!  We continued to fish and both Tate and Bennettelanded couple of feisty Redfish.  Trey tanlged with a high flying Ladyfish, then we moved around to Seymore's Pointe
and had a good time trying to outsmart some Mangrove Snapper.  All of the anglers had put fish in the boat except Trey but he kept on trying and his perseverance paid off!  He got the hang of it and put a couple of the fish in the boat.  The wind was playing havoc with my boatmanship so we made a run to Christopher Creek to fish the last of the incoming tide.  As we trolled the creek bank we were treated to a big Manatee coming up behind the boat and checking us out!  It took a few minutes but the anglers began to get bites and caught a few more Snapper on the float rigs but Julian had stuck with the jig and picked up three hungry Flounder, two which were of keeper size.   We fished all our bait so with that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing Amelia Island waters!