Out of the Fog

I picked up Robert Stettner and his friend Henrietta over at the Oyster Bay marina early this morning and we made a brief jump around to some docks on Lanceford Creek to fish some mud minnows on a jig on the first of an incoming tide. It wasn't long before Robert "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout. But there wasn't much happening with the minnows (we had some frozen shrimp that we tried but only nibbles) so we made the long run around to Tiger Island, passing thru a thick low lying fog as we went.

The conditions were still good and it paid off -
Robert landed a feisty Redfish, then he had a big bite and, Fish On! Robert played it patiently to the boat as it ripped drag and soon had it boatside and....BAP! Off it came! Robert had done everything right but the fish just must have not been hooked good. Boy what a fish!  We fished down the bank and then came back to the "scene of the crime" and sure enough, Henrietta had a strange bite and landed a nice 16" Flounder - the biggest of the year so far. Robert quickly followed that up with a keeper Flounder of his own.

We eased thru Tiger basin and around to Bell River and set up fishing a flooded shell point and here the action heated up - the two anglers were regularly catching small Trout, with one being of keeper size. We decided to move around the point but by this time the sun was up, the tide was high and the fish quit biting, so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.