Fearsome Fivesome

Although we had a beautiful morning today, the wind was kicking at 13mph when I met Reid Hanson and his fishing crew up at the north end ramp. The  boat was rocking when we loaded up and headed south west to try and get behind a land mass to get in some Amelia Island back country fishing.

Our first stop was up in Soap Creek - I had fished it yesterday with my buddy Brian Parent and picked up a few fish - but today it was a much better bite.  The anglers landed Seatrout and Redfish and

Seatrout and Redfish with a couple of the Trout being of keeper size. All were caught on live shrimp under floats, or on a jig.

We came out from Soap and made the short run to Eagans Creek to fish some dock pilings and boy was it on fire when we got there! The two young anglers, Conner and Ryen were making excellent casts and it was paying off with hookup after hookup. The adult anglers filled in with catches of their own.

We ended up with 4 Slot sized Redfish with  umpteen smaller "rat" Reds thrown back; we also had 4 keeper sized Seatrout with the biggest right at 18", and umpteen smaller trout thrown back; and we also added to the box 3 hard fighting Black "puppy" Drum, with a couple of smaller ones thrown back.

We didn't fish this spot yesterday with Brian, but he and I had made the long run around to Jolley and fished an outgoing tide with float rigs and really got into the Reds and Trout. We caught 'em there for a good while, then ran further up the Jolley to MOA and picked up some Trout, then made our final stop back at Tiger Island where we "caught 'em till we go bored" - one fish after another, mostly Redfish - we were "culling" smaller Slots for bigger Slots - and some Black "puppy" Drum, and some Trout.

Whenever someone asks when's the best time to fish Amelia Island, I always say, "October or November" and the last two days reinforced that! What a great two days of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.