North to South

 

We pretty much fished north to south today, starting up at Tyger Island. I had met Robert Smith and his fishing buddies Rex and Henry up at the Old Town Bait boat ramp and after easing out of Eagans Creek we hopped over to Tyger to take advantage of the first of an incoming tide. We worked along the bank tossing jigs and live shrimp and once we got to some logs, BAM! We had some fish hookups. Both Rex and Henry put some feisty Redfish in the boat, and at one time they had a 'double" on. 

Our next stop was down towards  the Shave bridge, fishing some docks and here, again, they had Redfish hookups. Most were in the 16-17" range but then Henry had a big bite and when his drag began to rip we knew it was a bigger fish. Henry did an excellent jog of keeping the fish away from the pilings (we lost a big one here a day or so ago to the pilings( and after a good battle, brought to the net a nice 24" Slot Redfish. 

Even further south we fished some rocks and again had a flurry of action. All three anglers put Redfish in the boat and Henry snagged a hungry Seatrout. After running down and thru Horsehead to some docks at Seymore's Pointe. Although the tide was still down and coming in, we had no real bites. We fished some rocks at Nassauville and finished up over near Jackstaff, tossing float rigs with the live shrimp where we gave some Bluefish sore jaws. We had had some good action early and it was a beautiful day so as we made the long run back to Eagans Creek we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.