Finally, some beautiful weather! I met Brian Roach down at Sawpit Creek this morning early. We had some store-bought live shrimp and we cast netted about a dozen finger mullet then we headed up the intercoastal then up the Nassau to make our first stop at Spanish Drop. We turned into the current and began to toss float rigs on an incoming tide that had only been coming in for a couple of hours but the oysters were already covered. Brian was getting good casts and good drifts and picked up a small Jack Crevalle and a hungry Seatrout.
We bumped down to Twin Creeks and fished it pretty good with the floats, caught a small catfish, then moved on. Our next stop was up at a dock at Seymore's Pointe where we switched to a jig. Brian worked some pilings good and I made a few tosses, but we had no nibbles. After making the run down to Pumpkin Hill we drifted live shrimp long. This produced a couple of crabs! But Brian went real long with a drift and when his float disappeared he lifted and let the circle hook set and fish On! Brian played it patiently and we could tell it was a good fish. I saw it come out of the water once - Brian worked it in and landed a big Seatrout that measured right at 19" - a "picture worthy fish" for sure!
We fished that area pretty good, then made our way over to some docks at Nassauville where Brian caught a feisty Mangrove - we had more nibbles, caught another Catfish, then moved on. We tried our hand at Seymore's Pointe, fishing the rocks with floats, got some nibbles, then switched to jigsaand got more nibbles. and another......Catfish! Ouch!
We had had a beautiful day and had caught some fish so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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