MIxed Bag

I fished with a fun group from Sports Clips today, meeting them at the marina early and after the safety orientation, headed north and west and around to the Jolley River with plans to fish float rigs and live shrimp on the last of an incoming tide. All four anglers - Cindy and Chris, Becky and Connor - were making excellent casts to the marsh grass and getting good drifts, and getting nibbles here and there and here and there, but we had no real takers. Finally, Chris hooked up, knocked the "skunk off" and landed a couple of small
but hungry Seatrout.  After also fishing the "bank", we headed back east and around to the Bell River.

Here we had a little better action. Chris put a keeper sized Seatrout in the boat (donated to my Veteran neighbor) and then Cindy landed a couple of Trout, too.  We buzzed back thru Tiger and fished the outside. Again we had a numerous bites - picked up a couple of Ladyfish, a couple of Pinfish, and a couple of Snapper. After we moved across the way we had our best action. Cindy
landed two hard fighting feisty Redfish and Connor boated a good handful of the Seatrout.

There wasn't much breeze and the sun was overhead, so we called it a day, but not after taking a short tour of the south end of Cumberland Island, Fort Clinch, and old town Fernandina. It was another great day to be on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.