I was heading to the boat ramp this morning when a black cat ran across the road in front of me and made me think..........nope, I thought, surely we're going to catch some fish - it was such a pretty day! I met Bruce Byrd, his son James and grandson James Jr. (JJ) up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp, made short run, and fished the outside of Tiger Island with float rigs and live shrimp on an incoming tide. I don't think we had decent bite there but after running thru Tiger basin and setting up along some flooded marsh grass, James "knocked the skunk off" 
JJ soon found that he was skilled at netting fish and took over those duties for the rest of the day! We had another trout or two then Bruce hooked up and expertly landed a fat keeper sized fish. We then ran over to Lanceford Creek and fished some flooded oyster between two docks - had no bites - so continued on around to a lone grass patch and this did the trick. Both Bruce and James began to catch Trout and had a double hookup once which kept JJ busy with
the netting. We moved on up the creek a bit and James was able to get his bait out first and BOOM! Fish ON! James worked it to the boat patiently and landed another keeper sized Trout.
We fished Soap Creek and landed a Trout or two, buzzed over to Temptation Cover and fished it a bit, then wrapped up the day back on the outside of Tiger. The bite had slowed but it was an absolutely beautiful day to be out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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