Tough Fishing Continues

I know I'm not the only one to say that we've had some tough fish catching lately. Yesterday I fished with experienced angler Bob Blalock and we struggled to find a fish. He did land seatrout under a float rig caught on live shrimp as the tide hit high then we picked up a couple of Black Drum fishing the DnW but that was about it for a half day of fishing...ouch!

Today I fished with John Faison, his son Will, his brother in law Tom, and friend Carl, meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We made the run up to and into Christopher Creek and fished some structure thoroughly and although we had a few good bites, we had no takers.

We bounced out and fished some docks at Seymore's Point to no avail, then ran down to fish Broward Island. Here, Tom was able to connect with a feisty Redfish  which he landed handily. Then he had another strong hookup and it was a big fish, ripping drag as it got out deeper. But alas, it found a log and broke itself off - the fluorocarbon leader was roughed up severely. We "milked" that island to stay out of the ever increasing wind but eventually we had to leave.

Our next stop, after we ran thru Horsehead, was around at the mouth of Jackstaff. We fished an entire oyster lined bank with no real bites - but John did tangle with a Catfish - and then ended up fishing the pointe of a sandbar where Carl put the last fish in the boat - a hungry Seatrout.

As Will said, "it was a beautiful day", and he was right! Although the fish haven't been cooperating, we still counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.