Like It Was Scripted

We had a beautiful day to greet us this morning - just a bit cooler than yesterday, but clear skies and the forecasted winds of 12mph didn't seem so bad, coming out of the North West. I met Todd Johnson and his cousin David (when's the last time you fished with your cousin?) down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and we made a quick run over to the docks at Longpoint and drifted live shrimp under slip floats on a tide that had been going out for about 3 hours. I liked the conditions, but we didn't get a bite.

We continued on up the intercoastal and dipped into Jackstaff and then into a side creek and switched to fixed floats and began tossing them with live shrimp to the marsh grass and oysters beds. We were seeing movement here an there and one time we saw a good swirl up between two small mounds of oysters. Todd was on the bow and made a good cast to the spot and let it sit. We both saw the float a"bob", then it slowly went under. Todd tightened up, lifted his rod and then we heard the ZIP, ZIP, ZIP of the reel drag. It was like it was scripted!  The fish boiled a few times but Todd kept the pressure on. We had to move the boat up to get away from a crab pot but as soon as we did Todd brought it expertly to the net - a nice 22" Slot Sized Redfish!

We fished that spot for a bit more and with the outgoing tide, the boat bottomed out on a mud bank but we were able to back off with the big Yamaha. With all that noise, we moved across Jackstaff and fished that bank for a good stretch,  to no avail, then we  made the run thru Horsehead over to Seymore's Pointe. Setting up between two docks, we switched to jigs and shrimp and got into some feisty Redfish. Both Todd and David were catching fish  and at one time we had a "double".

Bouncing between docks, we switched back to slip floats and picked up some Trout here and there, with one of them being of "keeper" size.

Our last stop was down at Littlefield Creek, back to pitching jigs. Here, David got "hot", landing one Trout after another as Todd and I looked on, not even getting a nibble.  Two more of the fish were of keeper size. David had mentioned that this would be a good spot to try a "Carolina Rig" so I rigged one up, hooked up a lively shrimp, and gave it a toss. Sure enough, BAM! Fish On! Another keeper sized Seatrout! Todd gave it a try, using the Carolina Rig, and, BAM! He had a hookup and landed  a Trout.

I'm not sure how they would work in a real swift current, but here the current had slowed and two casts caught two fish! We headed back to the ramp with some nice fish in the box, the sun shining and the temperature warming so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.