We had hardly any breeze when I fished with Bob Kossman and his visiting daughter Samantha yesterday morning which made for some pleasant fishing. And the 9am start to take in a late morning high tide was an added bonus! We met down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and headed up the Nassau River and made our first stop at a large marsh run out with the oysters juts beginning to show as the tide started out. The two anglers were pitching jigs and a few live shrimp left over from my Wednesday trip(evidently they are hard to come by with the water temperatures being so low). Although we didn't "tear them up", Samantha did "knock the skunk off" when she hooked up and boated a hungry Seatrout. I noticed the water temperature had risen one degree to 55 today!
We ran over to Nassauville and fished some rocks, deep and I thought for sure we'd get fish, but no, not a real bite. We then moved around to Seymore's Pointe and fished some dock pilings. We did have a couple of "takes" but no hooksets(I think one of them may have been a hard-mouthed Sheepshead). But as we eased along the docks pitching, Bob hooked up and landed another
couple of Seatrout.
After making the run down to Broward Island, the tide still going out, we worked the bank, pitching up current. We had the pleasure of fishing right under the "eagle eye's" of a pair of Bald Eagles (always neat" and here we had a good flurry of hookups. Both Bob and Samantha landed a handful of the Seatrout, caught in about 20' of water, and Samantha put two feisty Redfish in the boat. One of those had 12-spots and if legal, would have been a money winner in our Redfish Spot Tournament!
The trend held - cold water equals caching Trout deep on the bottom and the last flurry of catching, and under the watchful gaze of the Eagles made for another great day to be out on the water fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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