I'm back! After a down week of engine troubles (again), I was back fishing today, meeting the Bernot group - Chris and Marianna, and Mike and Katie. We launched early at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp and made a quick trip over to Tiger Island to fish the very first of an incoming tide. I had both live shrimp and mud minnows to put on 1/8 oz jigs to be tossed up near the downed logs. We had fairly good action early catching small but feisty Redfish and a couple of hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum. After working the island we came back out and ran up to the Jolley River and fished the "bank"
and again, found some nice feisty Redfish. Mike landed a keeper sized Flounder then Marianna hooked up, close to the bank and when her drag ripped, I knew she had a nice fish. It flopped out of the water a time or two but she kept the pressure on and worked it patiently to the boat, landing a nice 20"+ Seatrout. We worked down the bank, catching feisty Reds, Ladyfish, Mangrove Snapper, Grunts, Croaker, and Stringray...then it was Katie's turn to tangle with a big fish. She had just made an excellent cast to the edge of some oysters when BOOM! Big fish on! Katie let the fish rip the drag, worked it to the boat, and landed a nice 22" Slot Redfish. Chris finished that spot by landing a keeper sized Seatrout which we released to be caught another day.
The only downside to getting so many bites and fish was that we blew thru the bait! We came back to Eagans Creek to stock back up but it was closed, so we cast net for a few finger mullet then headed out again. Our first stop was up Bells River at a flooding marsh line and all four anglers tangled with high flying Ladyfish. After a brief stop up Lanceford Creek, we headed in, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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