Oversized Reds Keep Coming

 

I fished with the Hill trio today -Rob and his adult sons Alex and Robert -meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. We headed up the intercoastal, turned up the Nassau, and made our first stop at Spanish Drop. We were tossing float rigs and live shrimp to the flooded marsh grass on a high and incoming tide.

We worked along that first bank and in just a few minutes when Rob hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout to "knock the skunk off" then Alex had a hook up and battled a hard fighting Jack Crevalle to the boat. Later he had made a good cast to a pointe of grass, saw his float slowly go under, set the hook, and reeled in a hungry Flounder.

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fter a run further up the Nassau we pulled up at another grass bank and drifted our floats long with the incoming current. These anglers stayed pretty busy catching smaller fish, then Rob fought a big Jack to the boat then Alex had a strong bite and, Fish On! This fish was digging deep but then came back to the grass line and rolled and we knew - nice Redfish! Alex played it perfectly and after a good battle landed 21" Slot sized Redfish. We worked that area really good - fishing a pointe, fishing some grass islands, then we moved on.

Our next stop was along a grassy bank, the oysters still covered on a now outgoing tide. They got some good drifts but no takers then all of sudden we had Fish On! One rod went off and the big fish began to rip drag, heading north. Alex was on the rod and keeping the pressure on and....BAM! Rob had a big hookup - we had a "double" both anglers were battling big fish and it was Pandemonium! They were having to duck under each other, cross their lines, cross back, go to the bow, go to the stern, work around the trolling motor, work around the stern, all the time with their drags ripping! But it all worked out  - Alex landed his first - a 28.5" oversized Redfish, then Rob landed his, a 29" oversized Red. We quickly snapped pictures and released them. Boy what a battle!

Our last stop was back at Seymore's Pointe where we rounded out the day catching Mangrove Snapper, with a good handful of them being of keeper size. As we headed back to the dock we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.