Back Fishing. It was Hot.

After being "down" with Hurricane Dorian passing thru, I was back at it today, meeting Kenny Welch and his adult sons Walker and Paul, down at the south end boat ramp. There was a high tide that had just started out and after a 10 minute run up to Pumpkin Hill, the anglers began tossing float rigs with live shrimp. One thing that hasn't changed for two weeks was that the "baitstealers" were out in full force! If you can get  mud minnows, fish with them!  We had umpteen bites but brought back only empty hooks.

On the way to our next stop I put out a minnow
trap then headed down to Spanish Drop and only minutes Walker put a nice keeper sized Flounder in the boat.  Then all three anglers, now pitching jigs and shrimp, began to catch small but feisty Redfish.  Paul added another keeper sized Flounder.

We checked the trap, got some small mud minnows, then thru the cast net for some finger mullet them eased back down to Spanish Drop where Paul hooked up and landed a big Flounder. Later, Walker put another big Flounder in the boat.  But boy was it getting hot!

We decided to make one more stop, this one up at Seymore's Pointe at some docks and here the anglers wrapped things up with a Redfish catch and a couple of hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum.  And with that, we called it a day, another great one for fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.