All Around Good Day Fishing

We had a bit of b breeze this morning, but that made for some comfortable fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida. I had met Paul Johnson and his son Henry down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and after making a short run up the Nassau River, we set up to fish with jigs and live shrimp along some exposed oysters at the bottom of an extreme low tide. These two anglers were making excellent casts and in a short time, it paid off when, BOOM!  Henry had a hookup that ripped the drag of his size 1000 reel. Henry played the fish perfectly as it took him from the bow of the boat to the stern and after a good battle, landed a nice 18"+ Slot Sized Redfish, one that we photographed and released.

We finished working that bank then ran up to some docks at Seymore's Pointe where we pitched to dock pilings. Paul had the first hookup -a big fish. He played it perfectly and soon landed a keeper sized 18" Black "puppy" Drum(this fish was released also).Henry followed that up with a couple of puppy
Drum catches of his  own.

Our next stop was down at Broward Island. We fished the north end for a bit then moved down to the south end. Here, Henry was fishing a large marsh runout and found two Stingray's to do battle with.  We then came up to Pumkin Hill and drifted float rigs along the flooding oyster beds. Paul had opened his bail and let his bait drift further back and this did the trick. He caught and landed a 19" Seatrout then followed that up with another keeper sized Trout. These two they took to Kitchen 251 for a great Amelia Island Backcountry lunch of fresh caught fish!