hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend and holiday! I was back at it this morning, meeting Mike Livatino and his son John and daughter-in-law Deb out at Goffinsville Park boat ramp early. The tide had been coming in for about an hour so we made a quick run down the Nassau and began working a shell bank at Spanish Drop with jigs and live shrimp. As we got to a corner we had a good bit of action, hooking up some small Jacks and Ladyfish and we had a quick battle and SNAP with a Shark.
Wanting to fish Broward Island on that first of an incoming we made our way down there and worked the bank pretty thoroughly. These anglers were getting good casts to the banks but all we really caught were a couple of submerged logs!
We then eased up to Pumpkin Hill and drifted floats long and had some good action, again - Jacks and Ladyfish. But the current was making a good rip on the other side of a point and just as we repositioned we began to get bites. John had made a good cast up to the grass, let it drift around the point and when floated into that chance in water, BAM! Fish On1 John patiently brought it to the boat and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout. Then all three anglers were making that drift and it paid off with another handful of Seatrout, another, bigger, of keeper size.
We fished some docks at Seymores and caught some small Mangrove Snapper, then fished some rocks at Nassauville and here Deb put the first and only keeper sized Mangrove in the boat. We had some good action throughout the day and had a few fish in the box so as we headed back to the dock we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
NOTE: we had a bunch of bites today - a lot of "baitstealers" and eventually ran out of shrimp. Try to have some minnows on the boat. Also, I dug out my cast net but didn't see a big enough school of mullet to cast to.
Captain Lawrence Piper is a fishing guide in Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida and is a
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