Not as Cold as Minnesota!

I fished with Denn Evans and his buddy Tom Martin today, both spending some time here at Amelia Island for a few weeks and all the way from Minnesota.  The temperatures today when we launched were in the low 40's but these guys said "back home" it's in the 20's" so we counted ourselves lucky!

We met up at the Dee Dee Bartels with the tide low but rising so we made the quick jump over to Tiger Island to fish the downed logs with jigs and live shrimp. I was really encouraged when Tom "knocked the skunk off" with a hookup
fairly quickly, and after expertly working it to the boat, he landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout.  We eased down the island fishing the pockets and in a short time, Tom put a feisty  Redfish in the boat. After that, though, we didn't have any real bites.

After making the run out, up and over to the Jolley river we broke out some fixed float rigs and began drifting live shrimp along the marsh line.  We did get a few bites, but no takers, until we reached a shallow area where we could throw over a long oyster bank. Denn had made an excellent cast and within seconds, Boom! He had a hookup. He reeled it across the oyster bar and to the net. Denn went back to the same spot and hooked up with an even bigger fish but this one was smart and stayed deep and sure enough, the leader cut on the oyster bar!  Denn caught another one or two Trout there, then we moved into the shallow area and picked up another Trout or two.

Our next stop was on the outside of Tiger, fishing floats but we had no luck as the tide was reaching its peak. After fishing one last spot over in Bell River, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.