Mixing It Up

I wrapped a five day stretch up fishing with Bob Howe, meeting him down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. We ran up the Nassau River, stopped at Spanish Drop and Bob began casting a topwater gurgler with a 7w TFO BVK fly rod. Bob was making excellent casts as we worked along the flooding marsh grass  but he had no takers. We fished up to a large marsh run out, switched to spin rod and live bait and BOOM! He had a hookup. Bob played it perfectly, worked the fish to the back of the boat, let it run, then landed a nice hard fighting Jack Crevalle. We fished down the bank with the spin gear and picked up a couple of high flying Ladyfish.

Our next stop was around at Pumpkin Hill. We stayed with the spin/bait combo and fished the flooding mud flats with live shrimp but had no luck. After fishing a couple of spots at Pumkin, we motored back and into Christopher Creek where Bob switched back to the fly rod, this time using a 8w TFO BVK with a slow sinking shrimp fly pattern. Again, Bob was making excellent casts to the marsh grass and rocks and had one fish chase his fly as he stripped it in, but it just didn't take it.

Our final stop was over at Seymore's Pointe, fishing the rocks for Mangrove Snapper but they just wouldn't cooperate. We tangled briefly with a Ladyfish then moved on around the corner. After fishing an outflow, we called it a day, another great one to be out on the water and fishing hear at Amelia Island, Florida.