Trout Flurry Early

We had a beautiful morning today when I met Pete Nolan and his friends Victor and Sherif down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We made the short run up the intercoastal to dip into Jackstaff Creek and then went a tad bit further up into the marsh. The three anglers were tossing float rigs and live shrimp under floats to the marsh grass on a high and outgoing tide and it didn't take long for them to begin to get hookups. Pete started it off with a Trout catch then all three anglers were getting fish. Most of the fish were Seatrout, but Sherif put a couple of hard fighting Bluefish in the boat.

When things slowed down we dropped back to the mouth of Jackstaff and fished that shell bank and again, we got plenty of smaller but hungry Seatrout.  We also had a couple of feisty Redfish caught then Sherif hooked up with something and big and the battle was on. By the way it ran deep, and like a freight train, I guessed that it was a shark, and after a tremendous battle, I was proved correct. Sherif worked it to the boat a patiently and soon landed a nice 4' Shark.

We fished some docks at Seymore's Pointe to no avail, then ran down to Spanish Drop and even though we hand some slow action, Victor managed to find us a nice Redfish. We finished up fishing at Broward Island tossing jigs and shrimp and finger mullet then we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.