I fished north today, meeting Lee Riter up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park, and boy what a beautiful day it was. The water was like glass and it was still cool as sun came up over Ft. Clinch. I wanted to "get away from it all" so we headed up and over to the Jolley River and fished the "bank" with jigs and live shrimp. Lee had brought one of his own rods, a 6' light spinner by St Croix, lined with 6lb test mono and he went with that to start. We had one good hookup that bent the hook and came off! Lee went back tot he bank with a live shrimp on one of my jigs and BAM! A strong hookup and Lee was in for a battle. He played the fish around the boat as I used the trolling motor to try and spin - I bet we went in a circle 4-5 times. This fish was digging deep but staying close to the shore and the boat and I thought for sure a big Red but when Lee finally expertly brought it to the surface, we netted a big Jack Crevalle, boy what a battle!
We fished that stretch, then further up at Snook Creek, then made our way around to Bell River and fished some docks. Although we had a few nibbles, we had no real takers.
Back towards Fernandina we set up alongside a flooding point and here had a bit of action. Lee picked up a couple of hungry Seatrout and a small Flounder, and we both had a good handful of bites that we missed. Our final stop was around on the outside of Tyger Island, fishing with Osprey's keeping a watch, then we headed back to the ramp, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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