gambled that we could find some bait on the water rather than waiting on the bait shop to open so I met Bob and William Blalock out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp earlier than usual. As Bob and William were walking up I was able to get a dozen or so nice finger mullet in my cast net so we made a short run down the Nassau River and used a couple of cut up mullet in a minnow trap that we set out - then we went fishing!
The tide was still going out for another two hours but the oysters were well exposed and both anglers were making excellent casts to the bank ( as usual). Bob "knocked the skunk off" with a feisty Redfish catch, then added another, then added a nice Flounder. We worked a couple of banks and the duo caught one nice Slot Redfish and some small Seatrout.
We checked our minnow trap and had a couple of dozen mud minnows and also netted some more mullet so we had a stocked live well that would get us thru the day. We fished a small grassy island than ran parallel to the bank and I thought for sure we might get a Flounder on the shallow side and William proved that true when he caught a small one. But the bigger fish were on the deeper side and when Bob had a strong hookup we were speculating what it was. Before it came to the surface Bob proclaimed it was a Trout and sure enough - he landed a nice 19" Seatrout.
We fished Broward Island and added one more keeper sized Flounder (all fish caught today were released) and one more Slot sized Redfish. Starting early was a treat and helped beat the heat for a great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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