Black Drum Under the Docks

Back to "work" today, fishing with Trip and Rona Huey when I met them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. It was a tad bit chilly this morning as we ran up the Middle River and around to Pumpkin Hill to fish some flooded marsh grass on a  high and outgoing tide with live shrimp under floats.  We had a few nibbles and some good bites and Rona caught a hard fighting Jack Crevalle.  We fished a couple of lines of marsh then we made the run back to Seymore's Pointe where we set up fishing some rocks with the float rigs. Rona landed a Mangrove Snapper then Trip had a good hookup, played it perfectly to the boat, and had a keeper size Flounder out of the water when it threw the hook! Ouch!

We moved around the corner and fished some docks  and again, had some good bites. Then finally, we had a strong hookup. Rona was on the rod and patiently worked to the boat and landed a nice 18" keeper sized Black Drum. We added to the catch another Mangrove, this one of keeper size.

Our final stop was down at Spanish Drop - again we had bites -then, as Trip drifted his float up near the grass, boom! He had a hookup. Trip worked it to the boat and landed a hard fighting Redfish, one that was just slightly under the slot size. The weather had warmed just a bit, we had caught some fish, so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.