Wow! What a pretty morning we had today! I had met Bob Kossman and Bruce Beauchamp down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and as we ran up the river we had some fog issues but as we eased in to Jackstaff it cleared and we set up to fish off of a side creek with float rigs and live shrimp. As the sun came up it gave the marsh grass a beautiful golden glow. We worked that area back and forth and picked up a couple of hungry Seatrout.
After running thru the marsh we made our way down to Twin Creeks again tossed the float rigs. We had no bites there but then we eased along the bank, tossing to the marsh grass. Bruce had a strong hookup, one that "ripped some drag" - he played it expertly and after a good fight landed a nice 21" Slot Redfish. We fished on, and in just a few feet Bob had the strong bite. This fish was big! You can always tell when the fish stays up by the bank for a while, refusing to budge. But Bob kept the pressure on, worked it out into the deeper water, then played it patiently and eventually subdued an oversized 28.25" Redfish, boy what a fish!
We then made our way back to the Seymore's Pointe area and fished a large drainage with the float rigs. Both anglers were getting excellent casts and it paid off - they would toss it up above a grassy pointe, let it drift around the corner and across a submerged shell bed and BAM! Fish On! We caught a good handful of Seatrout with a few of them being of keeper size, but all tossed back.
Our next stop was down to the mouth of Back River, fishing a shell bank on the outgoing tide. We had no bites, but I know I saw at least two big fish "roll" along the grass. Our final stop was down at Spanish Drop then we made our way back to the boat ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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