We were pleasantly surprised to see that the winds had calmed a bit this morning when I met Beckie and Richard down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. After dealing with the high winds and rain yesterday, it was like a holiday! We ran up the Nassau River to some docks at Seymore's Point and fished the dock pilings with jigs and live shrimp. Both anglers were making excellent casts and it didn't take long for it to pay off. Beckie "knocked the skunk off" when she had a strong hookup. This fish was pulling hard but Becky kept the pressure on and landed a nice keeper sized 20" Black "puppy" Drum, boy what a fish. After photographs it was released (all fish caught today were released). Richard got in on the action with a Seatrout catch then Beckie reeled in a feisty Redfish and added a Seatrout to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam. After dueling with bait stealing Perch and Grunts, we moved on.
Our next stop was down at Broward Island. We fished the north end first and here Beckie caught and landed a keeper sized 18" Sheepshead to make it a "Grande" Slam then after we moved down the way she picked up a keeper sized 16" Flounder to make it a "Super" Grande Slam! Crazy!
The NE wind had picked up so we moved back to Nassauville, fished some rocks, and Richard put another bulky Redfish in the boat, still fishing the jig and shrimp, and Beckie reeled in a hungry Mangrove Snapper on a float rig and live shrimp.
We thought we'd try fishing back out in the open so we ran to Twin Creeks and went with the float rigs. Here, Richard got hot, getting good drifts that paid off with Seatrout catches, one after the other and, Beckie added a few of her own.. The tide had gotten up and we were at midday and as bite slowed, we called it a day,. another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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