Sun Down Moon Up

 I did an afternoon trip today, fishing with Bill Chadwick and his fishing buddy Paul, and after meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp. There wasn't much wind at all, we had sunny skies, and it was a perfect afternoon to be out on the water. We ran up and over to behind Tyger and fished the logs, working the bank with jigs and live shrimp on a tide that only had 30 minutes to hit bottom. 

These two anglers were making excellent casts and it paid off - they picked up a couple of Seatrout and a couple of feisty Redfish. One of the Seatrout measured at 17". We worked up and down the bank twice, then made the run up to the Jolley River where we turned into the incoming current and stayed with the jigs.

 Paul picked up a small Flounder along this stretch.  After running further up the river we again turned into the current but switched to float rigs and the live shrimp. After numerous bites and no takers, we figured out we were feeding the "baitstealers". 

Our next stop was around at the docks on Bell River, switching  back to jigs, and here we picked up another feisty Redfish. Back towards Fernandina we fished a flooding shell bed, to no avail, then made the run over to Soap Creek where we went back to the floats. The sun was going down and we noticed an almost full moon coming up and wouldn't you know, the fish bite picked up. This duo of anglers caught a good handful of hungry Seatrout, one after the other. But it was on the verge of getting dark so we headed back in and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida