No April Fools Here!

We were out again today on Easter Sunday with calm water, hardly a breeze, but overcast skies. I had met Marchelle Duncan and his friends Graham and Larry down at the south end boat ramp and we buzzed up the Nassau River making the long run to Broward Island to take advantage of an incoming tide that was about half way up the bank. No live shrimp today! But we had a baitwell full of Mud Minnows and they did the trick!  It may have been first cast when we had a hookup and a nice Seatrout brought to the boat.  Both Marchelle and Graham had some good catches of Trout then they
both landed a couple of Redfish, one of which was in the Slot (all fish caught today were released). Larry followed that up with a Trout catch of his own.

We bounce up and down, caught a fish here and there, then moved to the north end. Marchelle and Graham were pitching forward and landed Redfish then Larry had a strong hookup -his drag began to rip and, BIG FISH ON! This was a big fish! It dug deep and headed for the submerged logs but Larry applied the pressure away from
the bank and pulled it out to deeper water. From then on it was all over but the netting! Larry worked it patiently, and deep run after deep run, worked the big fish to the boat when Graham netted it and brought it in - a big, Oversized 28.25" Redfish. Now that's a nice fish!

We later fished some flooded oysters in Pumpkin Hill with float rigs, working the bank slowly, then cruised over to Christopher Creek and went back to jigs. Again, they produced! The three anglers put a handful of Redfish in the boat with one or two of them being in the Slot.

Our last stop, after a run thru Horsehead, and a couple of brief pauses to check out some flooded marsh, was over at the mouth of Jackstaff where we again tried float rigs, to no avail. But we had caught some nice fish today so we counted it as  another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.