Celebrating Fathers Day

They had to put it off for a week, but Dave and his dad Mike got to "celebrate" Father's Day today fishing the back waters of Amelia Island. I met them out at Goffinsville Park early and we headed over to Pumpkin Hill to fish a tide that had been going out for a couple of hours. It was still high enough to fish some float rigs up near the marsh so we baited up some live shrimp and eased along the bank. It didn't take long and Mike had a strong hookup and this one headed deep, ripping drag as it went. I guessed it right -  Shark - but it was still a good fight and woke all three of us up! We fished a few spots here and there then made a run.

Our next stop was down at Spanish Drop, working along a bank after switching to jigs and shrimp. We picked up a couple of Seatrout and Dave hooked up and landed a feisty Redfish. We fished a couple of runouts and found a couple of hungry Seatrout at each.

We made our way up to some docks at Seymore's Pointe and
things heated up a bit here. We had a couple of small Black "puppy" Drum  caught, then we had a good hookup and Mike worked to the boat a keeper sizes Sheepshead. Dave battled a Redfish to the boat, the biggest of the day, but just undersized.  We worked our way down Seymore's and fished a small cove in the rock bulkhead. I think it was Mike's first cast and Boom! Something hit it hard on the way down. Mike worked it patiently to the boat and landed a nice keeper sized Flounder. After catching a couple of Toad fish, we moved on!

Our final stop was down at Broward Island, still fishing an outgoing tide that was being pushed by the West wind, and even though these two anglers were making excellent casts, we had no real bites, so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.