Warming Trend Brings a Better Bite

It's been slowly warming this week and the water temperatures are following - the first of the week we  had 57 degree back water temps and today it was up to 64. I had met Marchelle Duncan down at the Sawpit Creek ramp early this morning and we headed up the Nassau all the way to Christopher Creek with plans to fish some dock pilings on the last of an incoming tide. Marchelle was tossing a jig and live shrimp and making excellent casts as we worked around a deep bend but it took fishing some marsh grass in some
shallow water to get a bite, but a good one it was. Marchelle  hooked it up and landed a nice feisty  Redfish. We made one more pass and picked up another Red before heading out.

Our next stop was around at Seymore's Pointe and here things heated up, fishing flooded oysters on the first of the outgoing tide with float rigs and live shrimp. I think the first cast produced a Seatrout and from then one we almost expected a bite on each drift. Right when I thought the bite was done the float would disappear
and Marchelle would be reeling in another. A few of these Trout were fat and keeper sized, but all fish caught today were released.

When things finally slowed we fished some more docks with floats, then more docks with jigs, and we did pick up another Red and a keeper sized Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam. We could see some rain clouds building and it was time to go so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida