Coming Back For Seconds

The wind finally quite blowing for a day so when I met Bob Bibik and his brother David out at the Goffinsville Park we had some calm waters that greeted us. After making a quick run over to Pumpkin Hill and set up with some fixed float rigs with mud minnows for bait and began fishing the marsh grass on a  high and outgoing tide.  I think it was David's first cast when his float disappeared and the fish swiped his minnow!  But David went right back to the same spot and the fish came back for seconds!  David hooked it up and reeled in a feisty Redfish to "knock the skunk off" (and as it turned out, we
really needed it!)  We may have had a nibble or two but no more real bites. We moved around a pointe, fished some marsh islands, got a couple of bites,  then made the run down to Spanish Drop in the Nassau.

The anglers switched to jigs and minnows and worked some now exposed oyster banks. There wasn't much action until Bob had a strong hookup, Fish On!  and Fish Off! It must have not been hooked good but it did rip the drag just a bit.  We ran up to Seymore's Point and fished some docks with some dead shrimp (no live stuff available today) and didn't have any success.

Our final stop was down at Broward Island with the tide still going out. David did put a good hungry Seatrout in the boat. I fished a bit here and there and was personally "skunked" - the fish just weren't cooperating. But these guys had good attitudes and really enjoyed getting out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.