Rare Afternoon Trip Garner's Big Payoff

 I fished this afternoon with friends Tim Parker and Brian Knicely, meeting them out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp at 1pm for planned afternoon trip.  The skies were overcast but the wind was down and it was only in the 40"s and the tide was falling...what better could you ask for?

Our first stop was down the way, along some rocks at Nassauville.  Tim and I were tossing shrimp and live shrimp while Brian  had tied on a suspending jerk bait.  We were tossing the jigs and shrimp up current and it was Tim who "knocked the skunk off" with a couple of Seatrout catches, deep on the bottom. We fished that spot, moved down a spot or two, then moved on. 

After running down to Broward Island, set up and fished the jigs. The first area didn't produce but when we drifted back to some logs, Tim found pay dirt - hooking up and battling to the boat an nice Slot Redfish. He added another Slot Red to the box and a couple of smaller Reds, while Brian hooked up with a couple of hungry Seatrout off the stern. Tim had a strange bump, hooked up, and landed a keeper sized
16" Flounder.

The next stop was back at some docks at Semore's Pointe. We had eased up to where we could get some good casts up between some pilings and BOOM! Fish On!  Tim pulled a couple of Slot Reds out before he relinquished the spot to Brian and he had some hookups, too. A couple of the fish were Slot sized Reds.

We dropped back and fished another dock as the tide changed and started back in. This is where we got our biggest Reds- all on jigs and shrimp on the incoming tide. A couple of them we had to work out between the pilings but today luck was on our side and we landed most of them - a couple in the 22-23" range. A couple of times we had "double" hookups - Brian landed a nice keeper sized Black "puippy" Drum and we added another one of those to the box. 

As the sun was going down we worked our way out of there - Brian had switched back to the twitch bait and had a nice Trout hookup which made for a great way to wrap up another good day of fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.