That Log Is Shaking His Head

I fished yesterday afternoon with the Blalock's, William and
Dara, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp on a low and incoming tide. We scooted across the river to Tiger Island and began fishing the logs with jigs and shrimp and mud minnows. The first fish caught was a small Flounder and as we worked along the bank, both anglers were tossing tight to the pockets, risking a hang up, but covering every nook and cranny. William had already snagged rather large limb and we pulled it in, hand over hand to dislodge the jig. Minutes later he went back to "V" in a log, let the jig and minnow drop, and felt a snag. He began to ease it towards the boat and the "log" began to shake it's head! Fish On!  William slowly worked it to the boat and we saw it was a huge Flounder. William took his time and eased it to the net - it was shaking its head the whole way - but we netted and brought it to the boat to measure at 23" - boy what a Flounder and big enough to take the lead in the Anglers Mark 2020 Bragging Rights Tournament -Flounder Category (scroll down the right side of this report for standings)

We worked along the bank and picked up another small Flounder, then it was Dara's turn to tangle with a nice Flounder. She worked it to the boat and landed a good 17" Flounder.  We fished up to a large oyster bed and we all noticed that the water was sweeping thru a cut and as the two anglers began to toss their baits forward, they had hookups.  Dara landed a feisty Redfish and William landed another couple of Flounder.

We fished across the way for a bit, then headed up to the Jolley. The wind had died as the afternoon waned and the conditions seemed almost perfect to be fishing. We fished 2-3 marsh lines, found some Brook Trout sized Seatrout, then called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.