One of Each

We survived Shrimp Festival and was back at it today, fishing an afternoon trip with Josh Denham and his friend David. I met them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and we made the short run up the Intercoastal to dip into Jackstaff with plans to fish float rigs and live shrimp up to the flooding grass on a still-incoming tide.  We had a couple of bites but no takers but then Josh's float disappeared with a vengeance and, Fish on! He worked it patiently to the boat and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout. Shortly after that he had a furious bite and this was a big fish! It ripped the drag as it raced around the boat,
taking Josh from bow to stern and around the engine. But it was no match for Josh and after a good battle he landed a hard fighting Jack Crevalle.

Our next stop was over at Christopher Creek, now fishing with jigs and shrimp on the last of that incoming tide, and we did pick up one feisty Redfish. We came out of there and back to Seymore's Pointe and David got on the board with a nice Black "puppy" Drum catch.

Our next stop was down along the Nassau, pitching jigs on an outgoing tide now. I think David had been holding back because his rod got hot - he hooked up and landed a high flying Ladyfish, then fought a big Catfish to the net. It seemed like we were getting "one of each" species!  But then Josh finished it off with another big Ladyfish catch. It was a beautiful day to be out on the water and another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.