Must Be Spring, Trout Getting Bigger

Cool and Sunny greeted Eric Slavens and I when we met up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp this morning. And what a beautiful day it was!  We made quick run over to Eagans Creek and set up on the downside of a dock to pitch jigs and live shrimp, but I think the tide was already too high because we had no real bites. We moved on down a ways and began tossing float rigs and this worked - Eric caught a few good Seatrout, with one or two being of keeper size (all fish caught today were released).

We then moved down the creek and fished an exposed grass patch where I tend to get fish but no luck was had. Moving on to the west side of a dock, Eric fished a seawall and grass line and boy did we catch some fish! And they seemed to
get bigger and bigger! Every time I said, "that's the biggest fish you've caught today", he'd catch another one that was even bigger! They seemed to be fat with roe with the biggest one being just under 20".  Eric also landed an 8-spot Redfish. We fished that area for a good hour and when the bite slowed we made a run to Soap Creek...but the tide was up, the water was muddy, and there were no fish to be had.

But we'd had a great early morning fishing so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.