And Then There Was a Big Fish

I fished south today, meeting the Smith family - Mark and Angie and sons Winston and Zach down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning. We ran up the intercoastal and then in to Jackstaff, turned, and fished the incoming tide with float rigs and live shrimp. We were getting bites here and there and finally Angie "knocked the skunk off" with a feisty Jack Crevalle catch. We had a couple of good "takes' along that bank but they broke our 15# leaders.

After buzzing thru Horsehead we fished some docks with jigs and shrimp at Seymores  but had no bites then we eased down the Nassau to Spanish drop and began working a flooded shell bank. Mark picked up another hard fighting Jack Crevalle then after Zach had made an excellent cast to the grass line, BOOM! Big Fish on!  Zach played it perfectly and after a good battle landed a nice 24.5" Slot Redfish!  We continued to work that bank and BOOM!  Winston had been fishing jig up near a point of grass and I thought for sure he had a big Flounder on. The fish went deep and stayed deep, then took Winston around the engine, but he kept the pressure on and soon landed a 19.5" Seatrout.

We headed down to Pumkin Hill and fished a couple of spots. Just as we were about to leave Mark hooked up and landed another keeper sized Seatrout to wrap up another great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.