We Went South

After yesterday's boat convention up north I was lucky to have Jeff Lavoie and his girlfriend Shannon meet me down south for some back water fishing pretty much all to our selves. We met at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and made a 15 minute run up the Nassau, dipping in a small creek with plans to fish some  jigs and live shrimp on the first of an outgoing tide. Both Jeff and Shannon were making excellent casts and it was Shannon who "knocked the skunk off" when she hooked and landed a nice feisty Redfish.  Jeff had an even bigger one on but it almost immediately found it's way around a dock piling and only a brief second after the line went taught, BAP! Fish off! That's why those big ones have gotten big!

We worked the area pretty good and both Shannon and Jeff added another Redfish then we came out and around to Seymore's Pointe. The tide was perfect - no going out- to be tossing float rigs with shrimp up over some oysters, but we had no takers. We drifted our baits along some rocks and again, no takers. We buzzed down to Broward Island and found a couple of more Reds, but the tide was ripping out which made for some difficult fishing.

Our final stop was back towards the ramp, fishing a nice outflow and Boom, Boom, Boom - the duo put a handful of hungry Seatrout in the boat. It was an  outstandingly beautiful day, we caught some fish, and we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.