Taking Care of Business

It seems February has been hit or miss with the weather here at Amelia Island, and it appears to be having some affect on the fishing, too. However, yesterday was forecasted to have only slight breezes with springtime temperatures. I met Julie Rossetto down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and we headed north and west, running thru Middle Marsh and around to Pumpkin Hill to take advantage of the very last of an incoming tide. Julie was tossing float rigs with alive shrimp to some flooded marsh grass.  She worked the whole area thoroughly and did pick up one hungry Seatrout to "knock the skunk
off".

Julie was in the area on business and took the time to squeeze in her first Florida fishing trip and luckily we were blessed with some good weather - it got almost hot!  Our next stop was around at Seymore's Pointe and this did the trick. I think our first cast to some flooded oysters produced a bite -a Trout- and from then on we could cast and expect a bite.  Although most of the fish were just a tad bit undersized, Julie was able to get a couple that were well over the limit which made for some fun fishing.

We ended the trip fishing the mouth of Jackstaff but by then the sun was up and the bite was off. But for an early springtime trip, we counted it as a great day to be out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.