Hot Action Fishing the Backwaters of Amelia Island

 Today was the prettiest day yet this week here at Amelia Island. We had clear skies (other than a tad bit of early fog), very little wind, and the sun came out and stayed out. I had met Sean Higginson and his son Judah down at the South end ramp and we headed up and over to the Nassau River, making our first stop at the Spanish Drop area. Both anglers were tossing jigs and live shrimp and making excellent casts and it payed off! Sean "knocked the skunk off" with a keeper sized Whiting (all fish caught today were released) then both he and Judah were catching fish. Judah was making his own casts and hooked up with a good handful of hungry Seatrout. We caught a "mess".  The also caught a couple of feisty Redfish, tangled with a couple of high flying Ladyfish, and had a potential Stingray to the boat. 

We buzzed down to Broward Island and Judah had a quick hookup with a Seatrout which he landed expertly. We also picked up a small Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam of Redfish, Seatrout and Flounder. We worked that bank briefly as the tide hit bottom then we moved down the way to catch the
incoming. This paid off too. The duo picked up a couple of Reds and Trout and at one time had a "double" going (see video below0.

Our next stop, a brief one, was back at some docks at Seymore's Pointe where we played cat and mouse with some Mangrove Snapper. We won once or twice but they won more than that! After running thru Horsehead we made one final stop along some flooded marsh grass, went to the float rigs and immediately caught a nice Trout which Juday brought to the boat like a pro. We made one final drift thinking "maybe another Trout" when, BOOM! That float disappeared with a vengeance! Sean was on the the rod and as it ripped drag there was nothing to do but hold on. Sean began to work him to the boat, let him run a time or two, pulled him out away from the submerged oysters and eventually brought to the net a nice 24" Slot sized Redfish, boy what a fish! And that's the way to wrap up another great day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida!