No Wind Today!

 

After a few days of some serious NE wind blowing we were finally able to get out today. I had met Matt Park  and his two sons Dillon and Joseph up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and we headed down the river with plans fish oysters beds along Lanceford Creek.  We worked along, pitching to the beds and it was young Joseph who "knocked the skunk off" by catching and landing two hungry Seatrout. Dillon got on the board with a Ladyfish catch and what looked like a small Sea Bass. We did have a Manatee sighting!

Little did the young anglers know but dad was "laying back"!  We fished Tiger Island logs on the first of an incoming tide and even though it was 'right", we had very few nibbles and no real bites. We then ran up to the Jolley River and fished a bend that had some exposed oysters. Matt began to light up the leader board. He hooked up and landed a feisty 5-spot Redfish, then caught a Trout or two, then another Redfish, then another Trout or two.

Our final stop was at Snook Creek, pitching jigs and drifting float rigs. We did have  a few takers on the float rigs but they must not have had any size to them.  We fished down to the last mud minnow then called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.