I Don't See My Float

For someone who had trouble keeping up with where their float was, Sue Welch carried the day by ctching most of the big fish!  I had met her and her husband Lewis and their friend Jan down at the  Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning and after the quick run up the intercoastal we eased into Jackstaff and began fishing back thru the current on the last of an incoming tide.  All three anglers were tossing floats and live shrimp to the flooded grass and we had good action for most of the stretch. They landed small but fun-to-catch Seatrout, a feisty Redfish or two, a small Black Tip
shark, and they tangled with a couple of bigger Shark that snapped the leader. Jan had a brief encounter with a big Redfish up in some sparse grass then Sue hooked up and landed a nice Slot 21" Redfish.

We ran thru Horsehead and around to Seymore's Pointe and fished the rocks with the float rigs and the only fish caught was a hard fighting Jack Crevalle, which Sue landed handily. NO Mangrove Snapper all year! Crazy. I don't think the water temperature got hot

enough for them to show up in the back water.

Our next stop was down at Pumpkin Hill and although both Lou and Jan had a couple of strong hookups, both broke off. Later, as we eased along an adjacent bank, Lou had had a good bite, lost his shrimp and Sue followed in with her cast. Boom! Fish on - a nice keeper sized Seatrout.

We made one more stop back in the Nassau River and here Jan's rod heated up. She was fishing a jig on the bottom and caught a couple of Stingray then  had a similar bite, reeled it in and landed a Flounder that was right at keeper size, but we released it. There was some real commotion up ahead and both Lou and Sue had switched back to float rigs and had good drifts going on when Sue realized that her float had disappeared. When she finally caught up to it her rod bent and her drag began to rip and, Big Fish On!  She fought it valiantly from bow to stern and after some good runs, landed a good Slot 24" Redfish! Now that's the way to wrap up a great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida