Feisty Fish

Boy was it a hot one again today! We're needing to schedule our trips early morning and try and beat the heat. Today I met the Davis family again - Carl and Sherrie and their daughter Hannah - this time meeting up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park. We made the run up to Jolley River and fished the "bank" with mud minnows under floats on a  high and incoming tide.  Although we had few nibbles we had no takers. After moving up the river a bit to the "Stick" Sherrie had a huge bite - one that ripped drag and went deep - but thru the hook! Ouch. Carl later "knocked the skunk off" with a nice Seatrout catch.

We came back and fished the outside of Tiger and this did the trick for some action. All three anglers hooked up and landed some hard fighting Bluefish. We moved around to Bell River and picked up a couple of more Trout before ending up over in Lanceford Creek. Sherrie fought a high flying Ladyfish to the boat then had a Redfish roll on her bait, come back and take it. Sherrie worked fought it for a second or two but this one thru the hook too!  Not 10 yards from that spot Carl hooked up and landed the final fish of the day, a nice feisty Redfish which wrapped up another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.