Mixed Bag Fishing at Amelia Island

The spring like weather continued today when I fished with Brian Roach,  his son Michael, and their friend Jonah. I met them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park and made a quick run over to Eagans Creek to fish some dock pilings on the very first of an incoming tide.  The fish catching started off slow at the first dock even though Jonah "knocked the skunk off" with a Seatrout catch, but when we moved to the second dock the fishing got hot! Brian found some Redfish parallel to some pilings. He hooked up with one or

two before the two younger anglers moved in and caught a few of their own. Most were just a tad bit undersized but Jonah did find one in the slot size. Michael added Black "puppy" Drum to the catch before we moved on.  (We were fishing with live shrimp and mud minnows(

 

Our next stop was around at Tiger Island, fishing the logs. Michael notched an Amelia Island Back Country Slam with a keeper sized Flounder catch and Brian added another feisty Redfish.

 

We made the run up to the Jolley River, fished the bank, and even though we were tossing float rigs into the wind, Michael hooked up and landed Seatrout. After running further up the river and setting up with the wind behind our back, we found some good sized slot Redfish along the flooding marsh grass. Jonah landed one nice Slot fish then Michael followed that up with his own. We had good action most of the day, the sun was out, the humidity was down, so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.