at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp we made a quick run around to the other side of Seymore's Pointe with plans to drift float rigs and live shrimp on a tide that had been going out for about an hour. John was tossing the flat rig and had a few good bites before he hooked up and landed a keeper sized Mangrove Snapper and at the stern, John G. was throwing an 1/8oz jig with a rootbeer Gulp Shrimp with a chartreuse tail. He said he had just made a cast and the minute it hit bottom a nice fish picked up and, Fish On! John played it perfectly and soon landed a Slot sized Redfish.
We then ran thru Horsehead and fished up a small creek with the floats. We were seeing some good movement and had a couple of fish "tail" out in front of us but we had no takers. After jumping over to Poteat Cut and fishing a point, to no avail, we made the run back thru Horsehead.
Our next stop was down at Back River where we fished floats long and here John C. put a hungry Seatrout in the boat, and then, over at Spanish John G. hooked up and battled a feisty Jack Crevalle to the net. We fished one stretch of now exposed shell then moved up the Nassau and fished a drainage before making the run back to some docks at Seymore's. Here we played with the Mangrove Snapper, a couple of which were of keeper size, then we landed a small but fun to catch Flounder that rounded out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam.
We finished up the trip fishing between a couple of docks at Nassauville. Again, we caught a couple of Mangroves and then John C wrapped things up with another Flounder catch. Although we had to work for what we caught, we did catch! And so, as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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