Trout. They just keep coming. I had met the Dickens group, set up by Sparkle - her son David, son-in-law Domenic, grandson Chris and her brother Jack - early down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We made a short run up the Nassau River and turned into the incoming current at Spanish Drop and began to work the bank with float rigs and live shrimp on a tide that still had a couple of hours to hit high. We worked along the bank, Jack and David fishing off the stern and drifting long while Chris and his dad Domenic took the stern. Although Jack and David did pick up a couple of Jacks and Ladyfish, the stern had the "game" fish - they hooked up and landed a couple of nice keeper sized Seatrout. Jack eventually joined them and landed a couple of those Trout, too.
We moved down to Twin Creeks and fished it for a bit then made the run down to Pumpkin Hill and set up to drift long and this did the trick. Both David and Jack, still on the stern, picked up some good fish - Jacks and Ladyfish but Domenic sneaked in behind them and pulled out another keeper sizes Seatrout. After moving up to a point and fishing down the other side, Chris had a good drift, a hookup and expertly played to the boat the biggest Trout of the day. The group added another handful of small Trout, a couple of small Redfish, and another keeper sized Seatrout.
We finished he day over at Poteat Cut, now fishing the very first of an outgoing
tide. The sun was up and boy was it getting hot but David hung in there and pulled out the "Big Fish", a 33" Bonnethead shark to take home the GPK! And with that, we headed back to the ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
Captain Lawrence Piper is a fishing guide in Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida and is a
US Coast Guard licensed charter boat operator
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