Another outstandingly beautiful day today! I met Todd Johnson and is son Oliver, and nephew Mathew down at the Sawpit Creek Boat ramp early this morning on a incoming tide that had been coming in a few hours. We made a short run up the middle river and made a stop to fish some flooding grass islands and boy was it looking good. We had just a slight breeze, sunny skies and cool temperatures and these anglers were making excellent casts and I don't think we had a single bite! Crazy!
We continued on around to Pumpkin Hill and fished another grassy island with float rigs and live shrimp and picked up a handful of Seatrout. With young anglers on the boat, Todd was "teaching lessons" on angling with his catch total and "keeper fish" total", but the young guys caught on fast and kept the competition close!
We moved around a point of grass and down the Nassau River and continued to catch Trout. We found that most were in the moving water and not up in the pockets. We'd pick up a keeper here and
there, but we caught umpteen 12-14 7/8" fish.
Our next stop was back at Seymore's Pointe, fishing a pointe of grass and here the Trout bite just exploded on the first of an outgoing tide. The guys found that they could toss there float rigs forward and let it drift thru current and across and oyster bar and, BOOM! Fish On! We added another good handful of keeper size fish with the biggest being about 18". Mathew battled a nice Slot sized Redfish to the boat and Oliver hooked up and landed a keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum. It was an awesome day of fish catching so we counted it as another great day to be on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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