Fun Catching Flounder (and a whole bunch of other stuff)

I went south today, meeting Garrett and Brooke White down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early with plans to make a short run up the Nassau River to our first stop at Spanish Drop. We had a bait well full of live shrimp and a couple of dozen of mud minnows to bait our jigs.  The tide had about 30-40 minutes of going out before it hit bottom and there was tons of bait getting smacked as we started pitching the jigs to the exposed oysters. Garrett was an experience angler but Brooke was new to saltwater fishing but within minutes she was making excellent casts and catching fish. Garrett landed a Ladyfish, a Jack, then Brooke got in on the action with a Seatrout catch.

We moved up to Athens Drop, fished just briefly, added another feisty Redfish, then BOOM! Garrett had a strong bite, his drag ripped, and Fish On! Garett played it expertly and landed a nice 21" Slot sized Redfish. Not to be outdone, Brooke made an excellent cast and, BOOM! Fish ON! She patiently worked it to the boat and landed a 21.5" Slot Red.

Our next stop was fishing some docks at Seymore's Pointe. We added a couple of small Mangrove Snapper to the catch, then a keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum. We fished some rocks around the Pointe and caught a handful of Mangroves and a Trout, then moved on.

We hit the north end of Broward but had no bites then moved south a bit. Here things picked up. Brooke found a "honey hole" that held Flounder and caught a "mess" of 'em.  A couple of them were of keeper size. Garrett stepped his game up and put the biggest Flounder of the morning in the boat, one that measured at 18".  They both caught multi-spotted Reds, one had 12 spots and one had 13 spots but they weren't quite legal. The duo also had a couple of more Trout and a couple of Mangroves.  We ended the day fishing a stretch at Pumpkin Hill, then called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.