I met David Vice and Robert Stettner out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp early this morning, and boy was it a pretty day...and we had a bit of breeze for the most part. We made a run thru Horsehead and over to Poteat Cut to set up fishing a tide that had just started out, tossing float rigs and live shrimp. David was once up on the bow while Robert took up the stern, and drifting long off the stern paid off! Robert hooked up and landed a couple of nice 18" Seatrout. We tangled with a shark, and David put a feisty Redfish in the boat as we eased forward, and when we dropped back to the original spot, David put another keeper sized Seatrout in the boat. He also added a keeper sized Mangrove Snapper to the box.
After fishing around a the pointe, we ran back thru Horsehead and down to Back River where we set up and drifted a bank again with the float rigs. We had a handful of feisty Reds caught, a nice Jack Crevalle and we tangled with a couple of Ladyfish.
Our final stop was back at some rocks at Nassauville, now throwing jigs and live shrimp. The bite was immediate and you had to be ready! This duo of anglers had to weed thru some small Mangroves, but they were able to box a good handful of keeper sized fish, the biggest being a bit over 14" that David caught. The sun was overhead and the breeze had stopped but as we headed back to the ramp we 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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