Post Isaias Fishing

The hurricane Isaias passed us by with hardly a blip here at Amelia Island - I even heard someone say they had to turn on their sprinkler system to water their yard!  Today was my first day back fishing after a good break and I met Chris Sampson, his daughter Carlie, and her friend Dan down at the south end boat ramp early and after making a short run up the Nassau, we set up to fish a tide that had been coming in for a couple of hours. We were tossing live shrimp under floats. These three anglers were getting good drifts along the flooded marsh grass but I don't think we even got a nibble, which is unusual to say the least. I did notice that I wasn't seeing any baitfish and that the water temperature had dropped about 3 degrees from last week.

We ran up to Seymore's Pointe, fished some dock pilings with jigs and shrimp, and here, Carlie put a nice keeper sized Mangrove Snapper in the boat. She landed another couple, one of which was keeper size, before we moved on. We eased around the corner, fished some rocks with the floats, then move on.

Our next stop was down a Pumpkin Hill. Chris and Dan got on the board with a Ladyfish and Jack Crevalle catch, respectively and Carlie added a feisty Redfish to her catch total. Then after we had moved down the bank a ways, things heated up a bit. Dan had a Mangrove Snapper bite, then Carlie and Chris had a "double" - Carlie landed her feisty Redfish quickly but Chris's big Jack Crevalle took him around the stern a couple of time before he was able put it in the net.

We fished Christopher Creek with jigs then came back out, headed to Twin Creeks just as the tide started back out, and went back to the float rigs. Carlie had made an excellent cast to a grassy point, let her float drift out with the current, and BAM, she hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout.
We had beautiful weather all day, the sun was out, we caught some fish, so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.