Boy (or Girl?), what a beautiful day we had this morning when the sun peeked up over the horizon like a newborn greeting the world when it first open's it's eye's! I had met David and Meghan King down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and we had slightly cool temperatures, sunny skies, only a slight breeze and great expectations of a good day out on the water here at Amelia Island. We headed west thru Middle River and over to Pumpkin Hill and set up along some flooding marsh grass to fish live shrimp under a float. We had made a few passes when David's float disappeared and he had a hookup. David played it perfectly and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout to "knock the skunk off". We worked that bank and had some more bites but no takers so we moved around the corner, fished it a bit, picked up another Trout, then moved on.
Our next stop was around at Seymore's Pointe, fishing a corner of marsh. The two anglers were making excellent casts but we
had no takers. After fishing between two docks, we moved on, and made the run down to Twin Creeks. The wind had picked up a bit and we weren't getting a good lay so we moved on down to Spanish Drop and worked the bank, this time switching to jigs and shrimp. Just as we were about to leave Meghan had a hookup. She worked it patiently to the boat and landed a fat Seatrout.
Next, we fished along Nassauville, tossing jigs deep and here Meghan caught another Seatrout and the "ugliest" fish of the day - a Toadfish! We moved back to some docks at Seymore's and wrapped things up with a nice keeper sized Black "puppy" Drum that David put in the box.
We started the day with great expectations - we didn't "load the boat' but it was a beautiful day, we caught some fish so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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