Winds of Weekend Gone

 Boy what a pretty day today! Almost no wind, clear skies and sunshine!  I had met Gene Burk and his fishing buddy Greg down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp right at the top of a huge flood tide - the water was up over the ramp. We made a easy run up the intercoastal, all the way up to to Jackstaff and turned in to a smaller creek to fish fixed float rigs with live shrimp. 

Although both anglers were getting good casts and hitting the points and pockets, I don't think we had nary a nibble. We ran thru the marsh and over to Seymore's Point and fished a large drainage with the floats, this time drifting them long across a sunken oyster bar and again, no real bites.

But after we moved down the way to fish a marsh line Gene found out that they were out deeper than I expected - he picked up a couple of hungry Seatrout in 10' of water, with a 3' leader! So we backed off, fished it deep with jigs and got a few, then switched to slip floats deep and caught a few more of the Seatrout.

We fished down at Nassauville with the jigs and shrimp deep, then crossed over to the BackRiver and fished a stretch of shell on the outgoing tide and even with excellent drifts, not a look. 

After a 10 minute run down the Nassau we eased up into a creek, knowing that we would be squarely in the back country and remote about as much as you can get and....there was another boat up ahead of us! Ouch!  But we still had a good stretch to fish and worked the 5' deep bank with the jigs and the duo began to get Redfish. They weren't schooled up but were hit and miss but they got a good handful, missed a couple, and the final one found a way to wrap up in a downed log!  Gene also landed a Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam.  So we had some action, had caught a few fish and as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.