Although last evenings forecast called for 50% chance of rain this morning, Clint and Jean Davis and I decided to chance it and fish anyway. We met up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp and headed south and around to the Bell River to fish some flooding oysters with float rigs and live shrimp. It didn't take long. Clint hooked up and landed a hungry Seatrout right off the bat. The two anglers continued to drift floats along the marsh grass and caught a good handful of the small but -fun-to-catch Trout. We ran thru Tiger and around to the outside and fished the very last of the incoming tide and had
numerous nibbles but no takers. Back thru Tiger we went and around to Lanceford Creek and here we had some good catches. Both Jean and Clint caught Trout then Jean landed a couple of feisty Redfish. Clint had a big one on - it was ripping drag- but it got up in the weeds and broke itself off. Ouch. We fished some dock pilings in Lanceford for a bit but the tide was still high and we had no takers.
Our next stop was in Soap Creek and now the tide was going out. Clint was making excellent casts to a marsh runout and found a few Trout to add to the catch. Our final stop was back at Tiger, fishing the logs and here Jean put a keeper sized Flounder in the boat which was photographed and released, then Clint had a hookup and a pretty good fight, only to reel in a small Grouper! It's not the first time we've had a Grouper catch, but it's always neat to see. And with that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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