Bringing Home The Bacon

I got to "fun fish" today with my buddy and high school team mate Tony French who had along with him his daughter Katy, recent High School graduate and future Armstrong College Alumni. The two were making a Florida swing before Katy goes off to college and after attending a reunion, that stopped in at Amelia Island for some back country fishing. 

I had picked up some mud minnows yesterday evening so we were able to get out on the water a tad bit earlier, launching at Sawpit Creek boat ramp and heading East for a change - there was very little wind and it was out of the South West, and we had a high tide - so we buzzed around the south end of Amelia and up to the the little jetty that runs parallel to the island.  Unfortunately(or for Katy, fortunately)  the jetty was swarming with porpoises. As the sun was coming up it was a great treat but it didn't help the fish bite one bit.

We then ran up the Nassau River and began fishing Tony's Bank with jigs and the minnows. Katy got out to hot start and "knocked the skunk off" with a Seatrout catch, then a feisty Redfish catch. She also put hard fighting Jack in the boat. We worked along that bank for a good while, working the bank with jigs and float rigs then moved on. 

After a short run we pulled up at Tony's Dock and fished it with the jigs and here things heated up. We picked up a couple of Mangrove Snapper, then Katy put a another Redfish in the boat. We boated a Shark that chased down a "skint mullet" and then had a brief battle with something big that headed NW, thru the dock pilings and, BAP! Fish off!

Our next stop was down at Tony's Island, fishing the logs. Tony and I each put a small Flounder in the boat then he expertly landed a Slot Sized Red. Later we had another Slot Redfish that we added to the catch. 

Our last stop was back at Tony's Pointe where we wrapped the day up catching our limit of 12" Mangrove Snapper. It was a great day to be out on the water with friends here at Amelia Island, Florida.