One Fish Per Spot

 It seemed like we were in line to get one fish per spot that we hit today. I had met Phil Bailey up at Old Town Bait and Tackle on another beautiful day and with a tide that had been coming in for about 4 hours, we ran over and up the Bell River to set up on a point with plans to toss float rigs to the grass. If it wasn't Phil's first cast, it was is 2nd and Fish On!  He played it to the boat and landed a hungry Seatrout. But after that, we had no luck. 

We then ran thru Tyger and around to the downed trees and  briefly fished some jigs deep, then continued on up to the Jolley River and fished a stretch of flooding marsh. We were seeing some big fish "smash" bait but none took our offerings. The next stop was up the river, fishing a point and again, within a cast or two, fish on!  This was a fat Seatrout that was right at legal size. And after that, no real bites.

Further up the river, at Snook Creek, we worked the bank with the floats and picked up a feisty Bluefish,

then went inside and tossed jigs for a bit and barely had a nibble. The tide had hit high and was forecasted to be going out back towards Fernandina so we made our run back to the outside of Tyger and fished a corner and sure enough, BAM!  Phil had a hookup He fought it expertly to the boat and netted a nice Redfish. But other than a Needlefish catch, we had no more bites. After working a bank back out to the river, we called it a day and headed back to the boat ramp We had had a little bit of action, had been fishing on a beautiful day, so as we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.