Double Jack Finale

Thankfully the wind had died this week and with sunny skies we're having some outstanding Amelia Island fishing weather. Today I met brothers Mike and Tim Dillon down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and we headed up the Nassau River and over to Pumpkin Hill Creek to set up outside some flooding marsh grass with plans to toss float rigs and live shrimp. I think it was the first cast when Tim hooked up, landed a hard fighting Bluefish and "knocked the skunk off" real quick!

But although these anglers were making excellent casts and getting good drifts, we had no more bites there, and around the corner. So we picked  up and ran over to Christopher Creek and fished some jigs on the bottom, between dock pilings. Although not much was happening there, we did have one good bite and a hookup. Mike worked it patiently to the boat and landed a nice Slot sized Redfish.

Our next stop was around at some docks at Seymore's Pointe, back to float rigs drifting live shrimp over some oysters on the first of an outgoing tide, to no avail.

We then ran east in the Nassau and began to fish some marsh runouts and this did the trick. Mike felt a good bump, set the hook and caught another Slot Redfish then Tim felt the subtle bump-bump and  picked up a keeper sized Seatrout.  We had another strong bite and Tim reeled in a keeper Black "puppy" Drum (which was released) then as we were about to wrap up, BOOM! BOOM! We had a double hookup, and they were some hard fighting fish. Tim was battling his on the bow while Mike was battling his at the stern. Both fish were digging deep but these two anglers kept the pressure on, stayed patient and in the end won out, landing two almost identical Jack Crevalle. Now that's the way to wrap up a great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida!