launched...but when I got up this morning the rain chances had diminished. It did show the winds increasing late morning, so luckily we were able to squeeze in the trip before a big rain front came thru.
I met Ron Oblen, his son Shawn, and Shawns "kids" Shane and Samantha up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and we made a quick run over to Eagans Creek to set up fishing some dock pilings on a tide that had been coming in about an hour and a half. We were fishing jigs and live shrimp and in just a few minutes, we were catching some feisty Redfish. Ron and grandson Shane had good hookups and hauled in a handful of fish. We moved around to the other side the dock and caught a couple of more Reds, then Shawn hooked up and landed a Black "puppy" Drum.
Seymore's Pointe, to fish some more dock pilings. These anglers had few nibbles before Ron hooked up an landed a hungry Seatrout. Our next stop was down at Nassauville, and again, Ron had the "hot" rod, landing a couple of Seatrout.
We fished Pumpkin Hill then ran back thru Horsehead and fished float rigs up by the grass and there Shawn brought the GPK home with a Seatrout catch. I was most impressed with young Samantha who persevered with the best casting of the bunch and although the fish didn't cooperate, she hung in there and fished to the last minute. The wind was up, the skies were overcast, but as we made the long run back to Dee Dee Bartels, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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