I fished this morning with Mark and Angie Smith and their son Zach, meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early. We made a quick run over to Tiger Island to fish the logs with the a tide that had been coming in for about an hour. This trio of anglers were making excellent casts but we had a barrage of "bait stealers" and within 30 minutes our bait inventory was already feeling the strain! So we picked up and ran up to the Jolley River.
I ran all the way up into the river and we pitched jigs and live shrimp to the oysters Angie "knocked the (real) skunk off" when she hooked up and landed a hungry Seatrout. We fished couple of oyster banks along the river and landed a small handful of fish - Trout, Mangrove Snapper, Grunts, and Croaker.
Our final stop was around at the outside of Tiger and here we found a handful of Flounder. Zach was acting as First Mate and "netman" while his dad caught and reeled in Flounder. We were down to our last mud minnow and Mark caught a fish, went back for another, then went back for another. I firmly believe he'd of caught a 4th if the minnow hadn't dropped off the hook after the 3rd fish! Although we didn't get any big fish, we did get some action later in the trip so we counted it as another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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