Building a Mess 'O Fish

Despite the Virus scare and concerns, I was able to get out on the water with John Fredericks and his fishing partner Dan early this morning, launching from the north end boat ramp on an outgoing tide.
We ran over to Lanceford Creek, fished some docks, and almost immediately hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout on a jig and mudminnow, fished on the bottom.  He picked up one more then we moved down a dock or two, then back, but had no more real bites.

We moved around to Soap Creek and began
pitching float rigs to a large outflow, then moved up the bank and alongside of a now exposed oyster bank and, BOOM!, Dan had a hookup. He played it patiently and landed a nice 21" Slot Redfish.

After making along run around and up the Bell River, we fished some docks, tossing jigs and minnows and jigs and a Mirrolure grub, white with chartreuse tail, and this paid off. The two anglers caught and landed  a handful of Seatrout, and one of those that John caught was right at 20".

We continued on around, thru the Jolley, past the MOA and fished a now exposed oyster bank. We worked along that bank for 30 yards with now bites but when we got to a drainage, BOOM! Fish on! John was on the rod and he played it perfectly, worked it to the net, and landed an nice 25.5" Slot Redfish.  After stopping at Jolley Bank and fishing the whole stretch of oysters, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.