Oversized Red Kicks It Off

I wrapped my week up fishing with the Caul's, Jason and his son Tommy, meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We ran north and west and up the Middle River and made a stop half way up to fish some pockets with live shrimp under floats on the last of an incoming tide. I don't think we even had a nibble.

We continued on around to Pumpkin Hill and set up alongside a flooding marsh line, shallow with shell underneath. Jason was fishing the bow and Tommy took up the stern, drifting his float long down the grass and....BOOM! The float disappeared, Tommy tightened up and set the hook and, Fish On!  Boy what a fish. This one was big, ripping drag and boiling up and digging deep. But Tommy kept the pressure on, taking the fish(or maybe the fish was taking Tommy) from the stern to the bow and from Starboard to Port and back to the stern. After a long battle, Tommy landed a
big Oversized 28" Redfish - a good fish to "knock the skunk off" and get the day started!  Jason battled a hard fighting Jack Crevalle to the net then Tommy put a hungry Seatrout in the boat.

Fishing further down Jason had made a good toss up into a "cove" and as it drifted across, BOOM! Another big fish. Jason played it perfectly and patiently and after a good battle landed a 26 and 15/16" Tournament Sized Redfish, boy what a fish.   We an island around the corner, had no luck, then moved on.

Our next stop was up in Christopher Creek, this time tossing jigs and live Shrimp.  Jason had made a perfect cast to the grass and within seconds he had a hookup. This one was a nice fish too - ripping drag and digging deep. But Jason worked it to the boat and landed another Slot Redfish.

As we were passing Seymore's Pointe we stopped and fished some rocks and it paid off. Tommy got hot again and landed a good handful of Mangrove Snapper. After fishing Twin Creeks with jigs for a  bit, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.