Oh what a beautiful morning...we had today! Sunshine, just a slight breeze, and comfortable temperatures greeted me and my guests David Roberts and his son Robert when I met them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. The tide had started in about an hour earlier so we made straight for Broward Island to take advantage of that "first of the incoming", and it paid off a tad.
Both anglers were tossing jigs and live shrimp to the bank, bouncing it back slowly and it was Robert who "knocked the skunk off" early with a hookup. He played the fish patiently and soon landed a big 19.5" Seatrout - we'll take it! We
worked down the bank and got into a "hot spot" -David had a strong bite, set the hook, and his line took off like a rocket! But David kept the pressure on and brought to the boat a nice feisty Redfish. Then both he and Robert added another couple or three Redfish to the catch.
When things slowed we ran back to Seymore's Pointe, fished some rocks with float rigs and live shrimp, then bounced around to fish some docks and flooded oysters - no bites.
Our final stop was back at Christopher Creek. David was in the bow, I was in the middle and was tossing a jig, and Robert was at the stern. David and I both worked a good pocket over but I guess the fish liked Robert's presentation better because he had a good bite after he'd made a perfect cast to the pocked and, Fish On! We could tell it was just a bit bigger than the earlier fish caught and sure enough it turned out to be in the Slot! David tossed the fly rod for a few minutes as we wrapped up the day, and with a few fish in the boat, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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