Fishing Can Be Wet

 

There were forecasted rains for today and when I met Russ Kesel and his sons Sam and Noah and Noah's girlfriend Alysa down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp we could see the big dark clouds barreling to us. But we were all up for fishing so we headed p the intercoastal, then up the Nassau, and made our first stop at Spanish Drop. After turning in to the current that had just started moving in about an hour earlier, we began to pitch to the bank with jigs and live shrimp. We worked the entire bank of shell but only had a couple of nibbles. 

A drizzling rain had started and the  SW wind was kicking at about 12mph so we decided to run up toSeymore's Pointe and that solved the wind issue. Casting back to some dock pilings were were able to get a little bit of action when Russ and Sam boated a couple of small Mangrove Snapper and Alysa hooked up and landed a Catfish.

We fished some rocks at Nassauville and here all four anglers got on the board catching Mangrove Snapper, first on jigs, but then we found that we could float a piece of shrimp up by the rocks and catch them that way. Unfortunately they didn't have any size to them.

But our next stop down at Pumpkin Hill paid off. The rain had finally slacked off and the wind had dropped just a bit. We were fishing long with the floats drifting with the incoming tide and we began to get big bites. Alysa had her float going long and when her float disappeared and she got that "clicky thing" turned over, she had a hookup and a fight on her hands! Alysa played it perfectdly and soon landed a nice Jack Crevalle. After moving around the corner all anglers did battle with some Bonnethead Sharks and landed more than we lost. Then Russ had a good hookup and we were thinking "Shark, again", but this fish never made the long run. Russ stayed with it, worked it patiently in, and landed a nice 24" Slot sized Redfish, boy what a fish. Then it was Alysa's turn to fight the big fish. After her float disappeared and she got that "clicky thing" closed, she worked it and landed a big 18" Seatrout.

We finished out the trip in that area, catching a couple of more Shark, some Ladyfish, and one more keeper sized Seatrout before we headed in and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.