Shark Fight at Amelia Island

I wrapped my week up today fishing with the Kirday family - Paul and Aimee and their daughter Abbie, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early with plans to fish the very last of an incoming tide- then the outgoing - with float rigs and live shrimp. We made our first run over to Bell River and set up alongside a grass pointe, but even though these anglers were making excellent casts, we  had no takers. Not even a bite! Ouch!

We ran thru Tiger and around to the outside of the island and set up at an outflow on the first of
an outgoing tide. This did the trick. All three anglers began to catch fish - small but fun to catch Seatrout - then Aimee had a hookup and when her drag began to rip, we knew it was a big fish. Aimee kept the pressure on, followed the fish back to the stern of the boat, and then began to slowly work it in.  It took a while - the battle was nip and tuck, but Aimee prevailed and soon landed a nice 3'  long Bonnethead Shark!  We crossed over the creek and fished another marsh line and again, picked up some nice Seatrout.

After making a run over to Lanceford Creek to fish some more outflows and still tossing float rigs, he trio of anlgers caught Seatrout and Ladyfish, up and down the bank. We then ran back to the outside of Tiger and fished jigs at an outflow, to no avail.  We bounced around to "Jolley Bank" and here we had a change of species. Paul was manning the stern and quietly put a few Redfish in the boat, fishing a float rig along the grass line. Aimee and Abbie continue with the jigs and caught Redfish and Croaker along the submerged oysters.  We fished until we ran out of bait, then called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.