Working Thru to Catch Some Fish

I fished with three "new to the area" but local guys yesterday and I could tell they brought their fishing skills with them!  Paul Tenarvitz had set up the trip and brought along his fishing buddies Jerry and Jon and we all met over at the Amelia Island Marina to take the SeaBorn  FX24 out for a morning of fishing. We headed down the intercoastal, eased into Jackstaff, and puttered further up into a small creek to lower the Power Pole and begin to fish. There was a bit of a breeze blowing but not enough to hamper these guys casting.  I think it was Paul who "knocked the skunk off" with a

hungry Seatrout catch on his float and live shrimp rig.  But there wasn't a whole lot of action going on there so we moved on.

After running thru Horsehead we made stop at some docks at Seymore's Pointe, with the tide just beginning to run out, and tossed the floats again, to no avail. After moving down a dock or two,  Gerry and Jon switched up to jigs and this did the trick. Jon hooked up and expertly played a nice keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum  to the boat. Then he added another one. Paul had stayed with the float

and drifted over an old rock boat ramp and BOOM! Fish ON.  Paul patiently worked it to the boat and landed a nice feisty Redfish.

We ran down to the Pumpkin Hill area, had a good hookup - it was off - then Jerry hooked up and brought to the boat another nice Redfish. I think we had one  more small Black Drum along there somewhere!  We fished Broward Island but I think the current was still running a bit to fast. After making one final stop we called it a day, another great one to be out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.