Outstanding Day of Fishing at Amelia Island

Even though we had some windy conditions, that couldn't stop these three anglers from getting together for a fun fishing trip. I had met John Collins and his long time friends Jim and Lenny up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp for a late morning trip to take advantage of the first of an outgoing tide.  We made a run up Lanceford Creek and into Soap and began tossing float rigs with live shrimp.  I wouldn't say the fishing was "hot" but we did "knock the skunk off" with a nice Seatrout Catch.

After fishing a spot further up Lanceford, we made the run south to a side creek and fished some dock pilings and this did the trick. All three anglers began catching fish. Lenny was on the bow sticking with the float rig and he caught an landed a keeper sized Seatrout. John and Jim were at the stern pitching to the pilings with jigs and shrimp and they were catching feisty Redfish, then a handful of Black "puppy" Drum. John had a strong hookup, one that was ripping drag, but the big fish was back in the pilings and wrapped
one and BAP! Fish Off! But John kept going back to the same spot and found another couple of bigger fish and worked those out for photograph and release (all fish caught today were released).

We made one final run back to Tiger Island and fished the logs and caught another handful of feisty Reds, and added one more Black Drum which was of keeper size. As we ran back to the dock, into the wind, we counted it as another outstanding day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.