Labor Day Weekend Fishing at Amelia Island Florida

We kicked of the Labor Day weekend today fishing with Kaci and Dax Gingras. We met up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park and made quick jump over to the back side of Tiger Island. The tide had been coming in for a couple of hours but he logs were still showing so we baited up with live shrimp and and began to work the bank with quarter ounce jigs. The "baitstealers" let us know right off that they owned the bottom so we switched to lively mud minnows and worked on. Dax "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a keeper sized Flounder. But that was about it for that spot.

After a short run around and up to the Jolley River we turned in and fished back up current with float rigs and shrimp and minnows. Both anglers were making excellent casts and getting good drifts but we had no takers, so we moved on up the river. This paid off! Kaci's float had disappeared and after she caught up to it she lifted her rod, set the hook and Fish ON!  Kaci played it perfectly and worked to the boat a nice 18" Seatrout. A bit later Dax hooked  up with one and landed one just a tad bit smaller. He also put a feisty Redfish in the boat and infant Cobia!

We hit a spot back towards the mouth of the Jolley but had no luck then made the run back to Bell River to set up on a point to fish the last of that high and incoming tide. This turned out to be the best spot of the day. Both anglers began to hookup with Seatrout with a couple of them being of keeper size. They battled with high flying ladyfish and put an almost legal Mangrove Snapper in the boat. But boy was it getting hot! We fished out of bait then called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.