Double Grande Slams

We had a brief break in the wind today so Paul and Terry Coughlin met me up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp mid morning to catch the first of an outgoing tide. We made the short run over to the outside of Tiger Island to fish float rigs and live shrimp up near the marsh grass. This duo was making excellent casts on a calm morning but we had no takers. We bumped across the creek and fished another stretch of marsh  and again, no luck.

We then made the long run thru Tiger basin, around Bell and over to Lanceford Creek and up
in a ways to fish some shoreline. Here, we did have a few strong bites but they just didn't "take" the hook. After dropping back and fishing a grass patch, we eased back to some docks and switched to jigs and shrimp. We did have one float rig still going up near the shore and this produced first, with Sherry reeling in a nice keeper sized Seatrout (all fish caught today were released). Paul went with the float and sure enough, picked up another keeper sized Trout. Then Terry snagged a small Sheepshead and a keeper sized Flounder. We moved up a bit and fished the dock just south of the big offshore boat with the three engines-the one with the lone pilings out from the dock, and Terry put a Redfish in the boat to round out her Amelia Island Back Country Slam of Seatrout, Sheepshead, Redfish  and Flounder. 

Paul picked up a Sheepshead and a Redfish to get his Slam before we made the run around to Tiger Island. We caught a handful of feisty Redfish then Paul garnered his Grande Slam when he landed a Flounder. With that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.