Quantity and Variety at Amelia Island

We had a beautiful morning today when met Dan Barry and his fishing buddy Mark down at the south end boat ramp. We made the run up thru Middle River and around to Pumpkin Hill and set up outside a grassy island, tossing live shrimp under floats on the last of an incoming tide. Right off, the two anglers had action, catching aggressive Jack Crevalle and Ladyfish, the "poor man's Tarpon".   We soon eventually figured out that the Jacks would be prevalent today!

Our next stop was back at Seymore's Pointe, fishing a grassy pointe on the first of an outgoing tide. We picked up a Trout or two, and a couple of Mangrove Snapper, neither which were of keeper size.
Dropping back, now fishing a grass line, Mark hooked up and caught a couple of feisty Redfish.

We buzzed down to Spanish Drop  and fished a couple of outflows, to no avail, but when we eased up alongside some marshgrass with shell bottom, we began to hookup non stop.  Dan had stayed with the float rig and was picking up Seatrout, Redfish and Jack Crevalle, while Mark was at the bow tossing a jig and shrimp combo and he was catching mainly Redfish, bumping the shell bottom. We had a good flurry of "fish catching" for a good while there.

Our final stop, after running thru Horsehead, was around at the mouth of Jackstaff. The oysters were exposed now and both anglers were making excellent casts, but the fish were having none of it. So we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.