Fish'n With The Birds

Today was a 10 as far as the weather went, clear skies, a slight breeze, cool but warming, and the tide was right when I met Hugh Haston down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We ran up the Nassau and elected to fish some docks on the last couple of hours of an outgoing tide. Although we didn't find any Redfish, Hugh did pick up a couple of Seatrout.

We buzzed down to Broward Island where a couple of Bald Eagles were hanging out and a Crane was stalking bait fish. Unfortunately the current was still ripping but we worked the shore anyway tossing live shrimp or mud minnows up to the bank and letting it bounce back naturally.  We didn't get any bites until the second pass when the current had slowed to a trickle and then we caught a handful of Red Drum with one of them being right at keeper size (we actually put him in the box as a "keeper" then later, after our enthusiasm had died down, re-measured and determine it was just a tad bit short).  Hugh really go the hang of hooking up those Trout and landed another good handful of them with  most being fat and right at 14 1/2".   He also caught a nice sized Whiting that hit a mud minnow!

When things slowed we ran back to Seymore's Pointe, fished some rocks, then wrapped up the day working an exposed shell bank. It was an outstandingly beautiful day an another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.