Pulling Thru at the End

Boy what a beautiful morning today! You can tell Fall is knocking at the door. I met Dennis Brizzi and Hal O'dell out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp early and we made a short run over to Pumpkin Hill to fish the last of an incoming tide with float rigs and live shrimp, and minnows.  We didn't have a whole lot of action, but as eased in close to the bank I could see a big 'ole Redfish Tail waving at us up in the marsh grass. I quickly converted one of the float rigs to a weedless spoon and we made a couple of tosses at it before it sank and moved on.

Just minutes later Dennis had cast to some sparse marsh grass, had his float disappear, and, Fish On! It was a big one, ripping drag, and it bulled up into the shallows and, BAP! Fish Off! Ouch. The braid was cut!  We next eased around a point, fished it with the floats, and here Hal "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout.

We fished further down the Nassau at Spanish Drop and caught a

handful of Seatrout, tangled with some high flying Ladyfish, and played cat and mouse with some small Mangrove Snapper and Pinfish.   Hal had a big bite that took off like a freight train, heading east, and kept going. And going. The breeze had picked up so we ran up to some docks at Seymores Pointe and set up with the stern to some pilings. Within minutes Dennis had hooked up with another big fish. We were boxed in between the bank, pilings to the rear, and pilings to the left and we all were worried that the fish would get wrapped an break off. But Dennis played it away from the structures, wore it out, and brought to the net a nice 22"Slot Redfish.

Just as we were about to leave, Dennis was reeling in, and had a nice fish hit right at the boat. It was bending the rod and ripping drag but within seconds we netted it - a 18" Seatrout. These two anglers were looking for a good meal tonight and they pulled thru right at the end of the trip, making for another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.