Quality Fish

I fished with the Duma team, today- Scott and his adult kids Will and Kate - meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. The tide had been going out for a couple of hours as we ran up the intercoastal to dip into Jackstaff, and then even further up a creek. This trio of anglers were tossing float rigs with live minnows up to a large runout and we did have a few nibbles at the first spot and then Kate "knocked the skunk off" when she hooked up and landed hard fighting Jack Crevalle.

We dropped back to Jackstaff and worked the bank, switching to jigs and minnows. Again, it was Kate who had the hookup. She had pitched to a small drainage in the marsh, had a bump, set the hook and patiently worked in a keeper sized Flounder.  Will followed that up with a Catfish catch!

We ran thru Horsehead, down the Nassau and pulled up at Spanish Drop to work that oyster bed.  Up ahead of us a Dolphin was wreaking havoc on our intended target, but luckily he/she didn't get them all. We had a good flurry of catches - feisty Redfish and hungry Seatrout and another Jack.

Our next stop was up at some docks at Seymore's Pointe. We had the stern to some pilings and were getting excellent casts to the pilings. Scott had went in between two, let it sit, and BOOM! Big Fish On! This fish was ripping drag and had no plans of coming in. But Scott played it expertly, let it run, worked it in, and landed an "almost too big"  26.875" Slot Redfish, boy what a fish!  Then Will got in the action  and landed a Trout that was just a tad bit short then he had another hookup and put a nice keeper sized Trout in the boat. Kate was fishing shallow and found a Mangrove Snapper hole - she caught 5-6 of those and at least two were of keeper size. We had a good well full of quality fish so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida