Mixing Work With Play

We had a Snack Food convention in town and a few of us in the Amelia Island Guides Association got to take some of them out fishing on the back waters of Amelia Island yesterday afternoon. I had Mark and Tonya on my boat and we had a great time!  Our first stop was up the Lanceford Creek, fishing "Millies Spot" and again, just like this morning, first cast produced a fish. Tonya was on the rod and she worked it in expertly and landed her first Redfish. Now that's the way to start a fishing trip!  From then on for about an hour we were catching fish. Mark put a couple of keeper sized Seatrout in the boat then
he had a strange bite, set the hook and brought to the net a keeper sized Sheepshead! (all fish caught today were released).  Tonya and Mark were neck and neck in the fish catch count.

Our next stop was on the outside of Tiger, fishing an outgoing tide with float rigs and here the duo picked up a couple of Seatrout before the tide got too low to fish it.

We then made the long run back thru Tiger and around to the Jolley, stopped to fish the "bank" and after trolling for just a bit Mark had a strong hookup!  You could tell Mark had caught fish before because he played this big fish perfectly and soon landed a nice Slot sized Redfish.  We fished further up the Jolley, picked up another Redfish or two, then called it day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.