Weakfish Rounds Out a Grande Slam

Wow what a great morning we had today with the weather - cool, only a slight breeze, and the sun came out from time to time to make it a great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island. I had met
 Bill(1)  Macerone and his fishing buddy....Bill(2)...up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and we had a bait well full of live shrimp and some mud minnows. We made a quick run up and around to the Jolley River and set up to fish the "bank" as the tide was coming in.  As usual, the "baitstealers' were out in force which made for some aggravation, but Bill(2)  finally "knocked the skunk
off" with a nice Seatrout catch. We caught some junk fish - ladyfish, pinfish, etc. then move on up the river.

Our next stop was just past Snook Creek where we caught a couple of feisty Redfish, a small Black "puppy" Drum and then we tangled with a big Red;  there's a reason big Reds are big - they find a way to break the line- and this one did! Ouch.  Then Bill(2) put a "first in a while" Weakfish in the boat. We came back towards the mouth of the Jolley for a bit and fished a grass line. Here,  Bill(1) had a good "thump" and set the hook and reeled in a nice keeper sized Flounder.  This roundout the duo's Amelia Island Grande Slam, of sorts, with a Seatrout, Redfish, Flounder, and Weakfish!

We buzzed back to the outside of Tiger and fished the flooding marsh grass - hooked up with another big Red, lost him in the oysters, then Bill(1) caught and landed a fat keeper sized Seatrout. Shortly after that Bill(2) hooked up, expertly played, and boated a Slot sized 22" Redfish.

Our final stop was over in Bell River and here we had one more
good bite - another nice Red - and this one too had figured out it could head for the oysters, bury its head, and cut the leader.  But we had had a good day of action so we counted it a great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.