Bumping the Bragging Rights

 

We had another beautiful morning when I met Jeff Parr and his girl friend Elizabeth down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp today. We made the long run up and around to Broward Island to take advantage of the first of an incoming tide down there, and it paid off.  In short order, Jeff was picking up small but hungry Seatrout on the bottom with a jig and live shrimp. He had put a few in the boat when Elizabeth had a stronger hookup, and after a brief battle, landed a keeper sized Seatrout. 

We had two. TWO big fish on but both found the submerged tree, wrapped, and BAP! fish off! We continued to fish, picked up a few more Trout, then moved on down to fish under the Bald Eagle. Down there we only found some logs, but we fished it thoroughly. Before we headed out we made a stop at our where we had started, and still licking our wounds from the two breakoffs, fished deep. When Jeff hooked up and his drag began to rip we were thinking it was another one of those big fish, but this one was a bit more manageable so I was thinking,

"smaller Redfish" But as Jeff brought it to the surface we saw that it was a Big Seatrout and after netting and pictures we measured it to be right at 21", big enough to move Jeff in to 2nd place in the Anglers Mark 2021 Bragging Rights Tournament-Seatrout Category(scroll down the right side of this report for standings).

Our next stop was back at some docks at Seymore's.  We fished there, then Twin Creeks with floats, then after short break we eased in to Christopher Creek and went back to jigs, but to no avail. Next was Pumpkin Hill fishing floats, then back to Seymore's to fish the beginning of an outgoing tide. With no bites, we fished between two docks with jigs again and here Jeff put a nice 16" Flounder in the boat. 

Down at Spanish Drop Elizabeth got hot and landed a feisty Catfish then a hard fighting Jack Crevalle. We had started hot early in the morning, had a lull, then wrapped up catching some nice fish so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.