I fished again with
Kevin Pride and his friends Mike and Ryan, but this time we met up at the north
end. We made our first stop over on the outside of Tiger with plans to toss
float rigs and live shrimp over flooded oyster beds. The anglers were tossing up
current up near some grass and it was only a few minutes when Kevin had a
strong bite. When it boiled up we knew it was a Redfish. Kevin worked it
patiently in and soon landed a nice 8 spot Redfish. Shortly after that Mike too
had a hookup. He played the fish perfectly and landed another Redfish, this one
Slot siazed. We may have picked up one more Red before we crossed over the
river, fished a marsh line, and Kevin
put another Redfish in the boat.
After that, It was slim pick’ns! We fished a run out further
up Tiger with jigs, went back to floats along Jolly Bank, fished the mouth of
Snook Creek, bounced around to the MOA (Mother of All) but had no real bites
for a good timespan. OUCH! But these guys were game and their perseverance paid
off!
After coming back to Tiger we fished deep with jigs. Ryan’s
rod had been quite all day but he warmed up quickly. He caught a nice Red, then
a keeper sized Flounder. Then all three anglers got hot, landing a couple of
more keeper Flounder, another Red, a keeper sized Seatrout, then Ryan hooked
and battled a big 24” Black “puppy” Drum. This was a big fish on light tackle
but Ryan was up to the task and soon put ‘em in the boat. It was a great way to
wrap up another fine day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Floeida.
No comments:
Post a Comment