One Hot Spot

 

I wrapped up my week fishing with Bob Kossman and Dale Bullard, meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning with a tide that had been going out for a few hours. We made a quick trip around to the old Sawpit bridge and set up to drift slip floats long with live shrimp as bait, but to no avail - we had no bites, not even a nibble.

We then came back to the intercoastal and ran up and across to the Longpoint docks and worked a few of them with jigs and mudminnows. Dale did have one good bite - it took some drag - then was off! Ouch! We continued on up the intercoastal, past Jackstaff, to Poteat Cut and then eased along an exposed pointe an oyster bed and boy was there some activity! Bait was moving and getting "popped" and it didn't take long for these anglers to get some bites. They had a couple of Ladyfish encounters then Dale put a keeper sized Seatrout in the boat.  And then we caught a couple of feisty Redfish (one had 12 spots).

Moving over to the mouth of Jackstaff we worked a bank for a bit, then we crossed over and fished a
pointe where we did have a couple of good bites. After running thru Horsehead and down the Nassau to Spanish Drop we fished a couple of stretches of exposed shell banks where Bob got on the board with a feisty Jack Crevalle catch. 

We finished up  dueling with Mangrove Snapper back at Seymore's Pointe and although we caught a handful of them only one of them was of keeper size. Bob did have a good hookup which he successfully brought to the net - a Bluefish which he had plans to go into a Chowder.  We had had good weather, a bit of action, and so as we headed back we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida