Mixed Bag Makes a Mess 'O Fish Here at Amelia Island

We had an absolutely beautiful day that greeted us when I met Ben Windle and his fishing buddy Brad down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. The sun was just coming up, we had a good breeze and not a cloud in the sky as we headed up the Nassau River to make our first stop along some exposed oysters on the last of an outgoing tide. The duo were pitching live shrimp on jigs to a marsh run out and in minutes, they both had Flounder hookups that they brought to the boat.  We also picked up a couple of feisty Redfish along the oyster beds. We fished a couple of those runouts then moved on up to fish some docks at Seymore's.

After picking up a small Mangrove and small Black Drum, we moved around to fish some rocks and here things really lit up. We caught one Mangrove Snapper after another with a few of them being of keeper size, the biggest being about 13" in length.  Although they're not real big, if you get a good
handful those palm sized filet's can be really good eating!

We run down to Broward Island after that, had at least two good hookups that released at boat side then we moved up to Pumpkin Hill to drift some floats over some shell bottom. This did the trick for the big fish - Ben hooked up, battled expertly, and landed a big 26.75" Slot sized Redfish.

The entire day we tangled with high flying Ladyfish and we wrapped the day up back along the Nassau at Spanish Drop when Brad battled two hard fighting Jack Crevalle, Ben put another Slot Red in the boat, and we had a couple of Croaker catches. It was getting hot but as we headed in, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.