Silver Flake Grub with Chartreuse Tail

I fished the first of this week with Minnesota visitors Frank Boehm and his buddies Jack and Randy, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp. We had a good low and incoming tide so we made the short run over to Tiger Island and set up fishing the exposed logs with jigs and live shrimp. It was an ideal tide, the weather was perfect and these anglers were making excellent casts...but we had no real bites - other than the baitstealers!

After buzzing down to Lanceford Creek we fished some dock pilings and again, not much happening. But our next stop up Soap Creek did the trick. Frank and Randy were tossing float rigs now and soon began to hookup on hungry Seatrout. Jack fished a jig and shrimp and caught fish but then he switched to an artificial paddle tail in silver flake color with a chartreuse tail. His first cast had a Trout nail it and then he continued to catch fish.  Both Frank and Randy were getting fish but when we ran low on shrimp we put one of the silver flake grubs on Frank's circle hook and BOOM! He caught fish on that too!  Although the day started slow we ended it with a good flurry of Trout action so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.