Wildlife Spotting's Top The Morning

I wrapped my week up yesterday fishing with David Barnett and his son Brahm, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park early with plans to fish the last of an outgoing tide. We made a run over to Soap Creek and set up along some exposed oyster beds and began pitching jigs and live shrimp upcurrent.  Both anglers were making excellent casts but we had no real bites.  As the sun rose we had a beautiful view of a Rosette Spoonbill working the bank. We then moved around to Lanceford Creek and worked some docks. Brahm did "knock the skunk off" when he outsmarted a feisty Sheepshead.

Our next stop was around at  Tiger Island. We had 2 dozen minnows also so we deployed them  and it paid off when Brahm hooked up and landed 3 Flounder, one of which was of keeper size(all fish caught today were released).  Switching back to shrimp he also was able to catch a couple of Black "puppy" Drum to round out a different kind of Amelia Island Back Country Slam - Sheepshead, Flounder and Drum.  It was here that David spotted something swimming in the water - a Salt Marsh Mink. It was making the journey from the island, west to the marsh and was swimming on the top of the water - made me day!



We fished the Jolley River on the first of an incoming tide, picked up a fish or two, then headed in, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.