I met Adam Alfrey, his daughter Rose Marie, his father Randy and father-in-law Bill up at Dee Dee Bartels Park this morning early. The tide was right at bottom so we eased around to Egans Creek, ran up it a ways, and found a dock to fish the pilings just as the tide stared in. My "demo" cast produced a bite, a hookup, one which Rose Marie expertly reeled in, and from then on, it was Redfish Mayhem! These anglers caught one, right after another - many times having double and triple hookups - I was almost out of breath getting fished netted, de-hooked, measured, and back in the water. Luckily, they pitched in and helped - if I was busy measuring a fish they'd grab the net and bring one to the boat.
We fished for a little over two hours that one spot. Most of the Reds were small "feisty" fish, but we'd pick up a slot now and then. After reaching our limit we continued to county the "Slot" fish and got up to 12 as we threw them back. Each angler also caught a Black "puppy" Drum and Rose Marie put a keeper sized Seatrout in the boat.
It finally slowed down so we made a run over to and up the Bell River where we set up fishing jigs and live shrimp up current. We caught about 5 Seatrout here and two of those were of keeper size. Our final stop was around at the Jolly and here Adam caught a Seatrout on a float rig to keep the "no-skunk-at-any-spot" record going. We had had an outstanding morning and as we headed back we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida
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