Record Heat for December

I fished with Bob Blalock Tuesday morning, meeting him out at the Amelia Island Marina. The Angler's Mark is down for repairs this month and luckily a friend of mine offered the use of his new Sea Born 24' bay boat for a couple of trips.

We ran up the intercoastal to Lanceford Creek, back in there a ways, and found a grass patch to fish with float rigs and live shrimp on the very first of an outgoing tide.  There wasn't much happening but Bob did get a Trout or two before we eased over to a dock that usually holds a nice
Trout but had no luck there.

After cruising over to Soap Creek and set up to fish a large run out and here things picked up. We caught one Trout after another, drifting the float rig in the current and a few of these were of "keeper" size(all fish caught today were released). When the bite slowed we eased up along the marsh bank and fished some submerged oysters and picked up 3-4 small but feisty Redfish, and then another Trout.  That slowed, so we dropped back to the original spot - the tide had been going out for a bit - and sure enough, the Trout began to bite again - again, a couple were of keeper size.

Our next stop after a good run was over at the mouth of Jolly, fishing some oysters that were just exposed with the tide drop. I had a couple of outstanding trips the week of Thanksgiving at this spot, but it wasn't happening today. We fished further up Jolley for a bit, then tried the logs at Tiger, then headed back to the marina.  I heard on the radio that it was a record high temperature for our area and it was a great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.