All Tied Up

 Fishing out of Dee Dee Bartels Park today, I met John Arnold and his son Asher early and we headed overto Tyger in the fog!  We eased thru the shallow inlet and around to the logs and set up fishing jigs and live shrimp and mud minnows. Asher got hot early and picked up a couple of feisty Redfish then his dad tried to keep pace with a couple of fish catches of his own.  Then a mud  minnow up by the bank produced a good strike and, Fish On!  Asher played it perfectly and brought to the net a nice 20.5" Slot Redfish. We didn't know it at the time, but Asher was keeping count!

We then ran around to the Jolley River and set up fishing the "bank" on the first of an incoming tide. The duo picked up a couple of Seatrout, Asher got a small Flounder to get his Amelia Island Back Country Slam, and we had a small Redfish or two. They also put a couple of Croaker in the boat, one of which was

big enough to keep. After running further up the Jolley to Snook Creek, we again worked the bank with jigs. John snagged a hungry Seatrout and just a minute later Asher hooked up with another, this one measuring in at 18" and big enough for the box. According to Asher's count they were all tied up with six fish apiece. But we fished out that stretch, moved back to the Bank and fished it briefly with floats, then headed in with a tied score so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.