Flounder Uptick

I've been telling folks we've been getting about one Flounder a week lately, but today, we had two! Hah!  I had met Paul Landahl, his daughter Beth and her partner Heather up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early this morning. The sun was coming up in the east and the "almost full" moon was going down in the west! We made the short run over to Tiger Island and fished the logs and had...not a single real bite. Ouch.

After running thru Tiger and around to Bell River we set up near some flooding oysters and began to pick up some Seatrout. Heather "knocked the skunk" off with the first catch then both she and Beth landed a few more. Paul had decided to enjoy the beautiful day out on the water.

We then ran around to Lanceford Creek, fished between some docks and here Beth  caught a keeper sized Flounder (all fish caught today were released). We fished further down Lanceford and Beth put a nice 18"+ Seatrout in the boat.

Our final stop was down at Piney Island and when Heather had a good hookup that battled to the bottom I though sure she had a feisty Redfish but when it came to the net it was another, even bigger, Flounder. We wrapped things up after that and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.