Double Duty

We did a two boat trip Friday, Captain Scott Stewart and I, taking the Pete Nolan group out for an Amelia Island Back Country fishing trip. I had Pete and Eric and we made our first run over to Lanceford Creek to fish a flooded grass patch surrounded by submerged oysters on a high and outgoing tide.

The two anglers were tossing float rigs with live shrimp as we worked around the patch and as we got into deeper water, they began to catch some hungry Seatrout. Eric was working the grass close and got into some feisty Redfish, bringing
them to the net nicely.

We motored around to Soap Creek and fished a large marsh run out. Within seconds, Pete had a bite, fish on, and the first "keeper" of the day.  He went  back to the same spot and nailed a couple of more. Then, we found that we open our bail's and drift our floats way back along the marsh grass and pick up Trout. Eric put another keeper in the boat then we added one more.

Fishing some dock pilings later we dueled with the bait stealers and finally had our bait stay on a jig long enough for Pete to hookup and expertly land a nice 16" keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum.  Our final stop was around at Tiger Island on the last of the outgoing tide and it paid off with Eric catching a keeper sized Flounder, Pete catching a smaller one, and they also had a couple of feisty Redfish. The wind was really blowing but we were back behind the island so it made for a good way to wrap up a great day fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.

When we got in we found that Capt. Scott's crew had a big Slot Redfish and another keeper sized Black Drum to add to the fish dinner this crew were planning!