We Found a Couple of Strays

There wasn't a lick of breeze when I launched out at Broward Island this morning. I had met Bob Blalock and we had plans to fish the first of the incoming tide so we motored down to Broward Island and set up to toss jigs and live shrimp. Bob's second cast produced a feisty Redfish and from then on he was catching fish, and I joined in, too!  We both caught two handfuls of the small but fun-to-catch Reds, and we added a couple of Trout and Sheepshead to the mix, too.

We decided to break one of the rules of fishing - leave fish to find fish- but we moved on down the way, and again, we were catching. More Reds, a few Trout, and a couple of Sheepshead. Finally, after Bob had made a pinpoint cast to a niche, BOOM! Bigger fish on. As you can see in the below video, Bob played him perfectly, took him around the engine, and soon landed a nice Slot Redfish.

Our next stop was back towards the ramp where we switched to float rigs, but we had no real bites. We moved further down the
river and as we were free lining the float back in the current we had good bite, and Big Fish On!  Bob kept the pressure on, fought it to the boat, and landed another Slot Redfish. I think that was the only fish we caught in that spot!

Our last area to fish was even further down the Nassau, near Spanish Drop, and we did have one good hookup on the now high tide (and flooding) but it threw the hook. After tangling with some large Ladyfish, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.