Copper Reds

I fished this morning with Bob Blalock, this time meeting him north, up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp. Although forecasts called for some increasing winds, it was very pleasant when we left the dock. We made our way over to Lanceford Creek and fished some docks with jigs and live shrimp and mud minnows on a tide that had just started in. It only took a few minutes before Bob was hooking up with Redfish.

These fish weren't very big but we both commented that it was nice to see these juvenile Redfish in such quantities - it has to mean a healthy stock. We didn't keep count but estimated that we had landed and released over two dozen fish. Bob also caught a couple of hungry Seatrout, one of which was of keeper size.

The day before yesterday we had hit a "new spot" down south that was pretty cool and it popped into my mind that with just a little more time  on the run up river, we could hit an area that I had never fished. Bob was game so off we went. We made a pit stop at some docks and fished the jigs and picked up a couple of more Trout, then we continued on - a total of about a 20 minute run. 

Bob worked the bank thoroughly with the jig and we found that we had some deeper water so we had to let our jig fall, sit, and retrieve extra slow. This technique paid off and we boated another half a dozen feisty Redfish. Being up river all of these reds had a deep, dark copper color - just beautiful, and as we headed back, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.