As tropical storm Humberto headed our way, we had just enough time to get in a morning fishing trip yesterday before the winds really started blowing. I had met Nate and Tara and their friend Kevin up at the Eagans Creek boat ramp with a bait well full of live shrimp and we headed out, making our first run up to the Jolley River to fish the "bank" with float rigs on a high and still incoming tide. Tara "knocked the skunk off" when she landed a hard fighting Bluefish. Nothing much else was happening so we moved down the way, and here Kevin caught a nice Seatrout and a Ladyfish, the "poor man's Tarpon".
We made a short stop at Tiger Island and fished the flooded logs with jigs but all we had were "baitstealing" nibbles. We continued on around and up into Lanceford Creek to fish a small grass patch and here things picked up just a tad. Nate got on the board with a couple of Seatrout catches then, after casting and letting his float drift by the grass, his float slowly went under and he hooked up. Nate patiently worked it to the boat and landed a nice 17" keeper
We made another brief stop at some docks along Lanceford and Nate stayed on a roll, hooking up with another couple of Trout on the jig, while Tara added to the catch with a Trout of here own, fishing a float up near the grass.
Our final stop was around at Oyster Bay. Tara had made an excellent cast, allowing her float to drift along a grass island and, BOOM! Fish On! She worked it to the boat and landed a feisty Redfish to round out the group's Amelia Island Back Country Slam of Seatrout, Flounder, and Redfish. And with that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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