Honeymoon Bliss

You can't get much happier than get married over the weekend and taking an Amelia Island back
country fishing trip just a couple of days later!  Brian and Kaitlyn Greenup were visiting Amelia after their wedding and I fished with them today, meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We ran up the Nassau River, stopped at Spanish Drop and began tossing float rigs baited with live shrimp to the marsh grass.  Brian battled a couple of hard fighting Jack Crevalle and Kaitlyn put her first Seatarout in the boat.  We landed a handful of fish there then moved on.

Our next stop was down past Middle River, fishing a new spot that looked good a low tide a week ago, but it didn't pan out. I plan on trying it again, though. We continued on to Pumpkin Hill and set up to drift our floats along the marsh grass on a high and incoming tide, this time baited with Mud Minnows.  We had a nibble or two then Brian hooked up and, Fish On!  This fish was ripping drag and had no intentions of

coming in. But Brian was up to the fight, worked it penitently to the boat, let it run again, then brought it to the net. It was a big Oversized Redfish - boy what a fish. Only minutes later he had another hookup - another big Red. Brian brought this one in handily and we netted a nice 23" Slot sized Redfish.  Kaitlyn  added another Seatrout to the catch while Brian boated a Mangrove Snapper.

We ran up Christoper Creek and switched to jigs and minnows. Kaitlyn worked another Trout to the boat but that was about all we had until Kaitlyn had made a perfect cast up to the corner of some marh grass. She had snagged a couple of oyster shells during the morning and this looked almost like the same but we could tell it was pulling back!  Kaitlyn slowly reeled it in and then the fish decided to fight, throwing a huge splash. But Kaitlyn kept the pressure on and brought to the net a massive 22.25" Flounder, big enough to move Kaitlyn into 2nd place in the Anglers Mark 2020 Bragging Rights Tournament-Flounder Category (scroll down the right side of this report for standings).

We finished up fishing at Symore's Pointe, had no real luck but with a couple of really big fish in the boat we headed in, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.