Full Moon Fishing

 Crazy how a full moon gets people talking...and seems to affect the fishing. At 7:30 t his morning when Marty and Cathy Siciliano and I made it to our first spot - the "bank" of the Jolley River, Marty pointed out the still visible  full-ish moon. We had ran from Old Town Bait and Tackle and had a tide that had been coming in for a couple of hours, but it looked like it was already high!

Marty and Cathy began to toss float rigs and mud minnows up to the grassy bank, drifting over oysters. We worked along that bank and Marty picked up a keeper sized Seatrout and a Jack Crevalle. (All fish caught today were released). We then made our way up the Jolley and fished the mouth  of Snook Creek and here Marty picked up a couple of feisty Redfish in quick succession. We fished that stretch for a bit then moved back down the river to the mouth of Tyger Creek. 

Here, Cathy had "gone long" with a drift and at great distance, had her float disappear - she tightened up her line and let the circle hook set and, Fish On!  Cathy worked it patiently back to the boat and brought to the net a huge Catfish - the biggest fish of the day!

We came back around Tyger and fished the outside with the tide still coming in and this turned out to be the "hot spot" of the day. Marty caught another couple of Redfish, one of them being of Slot size, and another Seatrout while Cathy hooked up and landed a keeper sized Mangrove Snapper. 

We fished a point over in Bell River, ran up Lanceford and fished  a grassy island (which was almost covered), then 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 licensed US Coast Guard charter boat operator.