Getting Our Fly Fix In

 We had a beautiful morning forecasted when I picked up Mark DePrimo at the Residence Inn this morning. We made our way down to Sawpit Creek, launched, and made the run up the intercoastal to dip into a side creek up near Horsehead. Mark had wanted to get h is "Fly Fix" in so I had two fly outfits ready, a 7w and a 8w. Mark began tossing the lighter 7w that had a hand tied "shrimp" fly and was getting good casts up to some oyster beds, then he let the current drop it down to about 8' of water. We worked along that bank, had not strikes, then worked the same bank with some spin gear and live shrimp. Mark did have a good bite from a feisty Bluefish. 

After making a run thru Horsehead and down to Spanish drop, we worked another expose oyster bed until the outgoing tide hit bottom. After moving up to some docks at Seymore's, Mark fine tuned his hookset and put a good handful of Mangrove Snapper in the boat.

We then made a long run up the Nassau and dipped into a creek where we worked a tree line bank the fly gear then the jig/shrimp. Man it was beautiful back there! And the run paid off when Mark had a strong bite, set the hook and battled to the net a feisty Redfish. After making the trip back to Sawpit, driving back to town and depositing Mark at the Residence, I counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.