After yesterday's nasty weather we were able to fish today and get in a trip for the visiting Lee family Mau-En and Linda and their two sons Jeremiah and Jodiah. The winds were very conducive to fishing with just a slight breeze when we launched at the north end boat ramp so we cruised on over to the outside of Tiger Island to fish a large creek outpour on the first of an outgoing tide. All four anglers were tossing float rigs with live shrimp to the flooded marsh grass but we had no takers. (We actually had zero fish caught today on a float rig).
We ran over to Soap Creek, fished some more float rigs, then stopped by a couple of docks on Lanceford and switched to jigs. At least we had a few "bumps" from the bait stealers. We then made the long run around to Bell River, fished some more docks, and finally, Mau-En had a hookup which he expertly landed - a nice keeper sized Seatrout. But from then on we only had nibblers so we kept on going, around to the Jolley River, switched back to floats with no luck, then we made our final stop back at Tiger.
It was young Jodiah who got hot when had a good bite, set the hook, and reeled in his very first fish, ever, a nice feisty Redfish! He added another Redfish, the a Black "puppy" Drum then it was Linda's turn to catch her first fish, another nice Redfish. Jeremiah was making excellent casts on his own but the fish thought it'd be best to get hooked by some first timers today! Jodiah put one more Black Drum in the boat, then Mau-En wrapped things up with a 5-spot Redfish catch. It turned out to be a beautiful day and another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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