Big Trout Starts The Day

It was a Chamber of Commerce type of morning today -slightly cool, clear and just a tad bit of breeze. I had met Keith Guernsey down at the south end ramp and we made the run up the Amelia River and then dipped in to Jackstaff to make our first stop. The tide had been going out a few hours and some shell was showing but we started off with float rigs and live shrimp. We were seeing much more bait moving around and the area looked great - we did have a few bites and one Flounder to the boat - but none landed.

We bounced across the creek, fished a point of
grass, and after Keith made an excellent cast to some "worried water", BOOM!  He had a hookup. We could tell this fish was big by the way it was ripping drag and I thought for sure it was going to be a Redfish. But no, after Keith patiently worked it to the net, we saw that it was a big 20" Seatrout! Now that's the way to knock the skunk off!

We ran thru Horsehead and around to the Nassau River and fished some now exposed oysters and marsh run-outs and here Keith battled a big Jack Crevalle - man they fight fun!

Our next stop was down at Broward Island on the last of an outgoing tide and even though the conditions looked perfect, we had no takers.  We made one final stop back at some docks at Seymore's Pointe and finished up with a keeper sized 17" Black "puppy" Drum. The fish we caught were nice sizes so we adapted the "quality over quantity" attitude and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida