Sunday, July 6, 2014

The Redfish Kept Getting Bigger

I fished this morning with Lisa Alexander, her son Danny and their friend Oleg.  I believe Oleg has traveled the furthest to fish with me, visiting Florida from Russia!  We met at the Atlantic Seafood dock early and headed up to the Jolley River to fish a large creek mouth with a few hours left in an outgoing tide.  The anglers were getting nibbles and Danny put the first fish in the boat, a small, but feisty Redfish.  We moved back to the mouth of Jolley and fished a long oyster bank.  Lisa landed another small Redfish, Oleg caught a hard fighting Jack Crevalle, and then Lisa had a good battle with a
huge Seatrout that proved wily enough to avoid getting netted!  We also had a keeper sized Flounder to the boat and it too figured out to throw the hook!  Our next stop was at Tiger Island and after a slow start, the bite picked up to provide some really good action.  Danny put a good Redfish in the boat then he had another one on when Oleg's rod bent over and we had a double!  Both young anglers did great - we first netted Oleg's keeper sized Sheepshead then we landed Danny's slot sized Red.  We continued to fish the deep water, had another Flounder to the boat, caught a couple of small
Reds, then Oleg landed another slot Redfish.  Lisa wrapped it up with the biggest Sheepshead of the day.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be out on Amelia Island waters!

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