Spot Jumping

We've got some nice weather now! Shorts day! I met David Gaines and his brother Jimmy along with David's grandson Braham up at the north end ramp early and we cruised around to Tiger to fish that first of an incoming tide. We had absolutely perfect conditions and all three anglers were making excellent casts.  Jimmy knocked the skunk off with a Black "puppy" Drum catch on a jig and shrimp then David added a Flounder that was of keeper size (all fish caught today were released). Although we were getting nibbles here and there we had no more takers so we picked up and ran.

Our next stop was up the Jolley, fishing some flooding oyster beds with float rigs and here we had a good hookup and Braham landed feisty Redfish. Jimmy added a Seatrout as we worked the oysters, then we dipped in to a large creek, went back to jigs, then made a run back to the mouth of the Jolley. After working that bank we cruised back to the outside of Jolley... and hit a small jackpot. After not getting any bites for about a dozen casts the Reds started to bite. At one time we had a "double" with Jimmy reeling one in at the stern while Braham expertly played the biggest fish of the day, an nice 21" Slot Redfish. We caught good handful before we left. 

We fished some flooded oysters at Bell River, ran to Temptation Cover to no avail, then ran over to Lanceford and fished some marsh (got a few Trout here), then fished some docks (got a few Trout here) then wrapped up fishing Soap Creek. All in all we had a good mess of fish caught so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida