Pepsi Or Coca Cola?

 

You may of noticed a lag in reports from last week - the Anglers Mark was in the shop for a week getting it's 100 hour service, but I was back at it today and boy did it sure feel good to be back on the water! I had the Taylor crew - Gordon and Kim and their daughter Savannah and son-in-law Garrett meet me up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and with just a few clouds in the sky and very little breeze..we headed north and west. Our first stop was outside of Tyger Island where we fished some jigs and mud minnows on a tide that had been going out for a couple of hours. Not a bite!

We eased around into the Jolley River and began fishing an oyster lined bank

with float rigs. I noticed right off that unlike the "cappuccino" colored water that we had of two weeks ago, the water was clean and looked just like Coca Cola, or is it Pepsi? It must have made a difference because we had a good bite as the tide fell. Gordon really "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and expertly landed a nice 22.5" Slot sized Redfish. Then the whole team was catching fish. Garrett put a Flounder and Seatrout in the boat then Savannah heated up and caught Flounder too, one of which was of keeper size. She also put a feisty Black "puppy" Drum in the boat. We worked along the edge and we had pretty constant action. Kim decided to quit "laying back" and began to catch fish - one of which was another keeper sized Flounder.  I think we totaled 8-9 flounder caught with three of them being of keeper size. We had a good handful of Seatrout caught, two of which were of keeper size, and also caught a few feisty "rat" Red's.

Added to the catch were Ladyfish, a Gar fish, a Cat fish, Croaker, Perch and one Blue crab that was almost to the boat! We had a slight breeze blowing for most of the day, cloudy skies that kept the sun off and as we headed in, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.