I kicked off the week fishing with the Hutchins family - Matt and Laura and their two sons Garrett and Carter. We met early down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and headed up the intracoastal to make our way to Poteat Point and break out float rigs and live shrimp on a tide that had been going out for about 2 hours. It only took a minute before those floats were going down! I noted the water temperature was almost 64 and it seemed to turn the small Trout on. Garrett and Carter took turns reeling in Seatrout at that first spot. We did ease forward just a bit and got a couple of more further up.
We then ran thru Horsehead and down to Spanish Drop and switched to jigs and shrimp. The anglers had a few nibbles but no real takers. We moved up to fish a large drainage but again, nibbles but no takers. Our next stop was over at Nassauville, fishing between two docks. The baitstealers were prolific but we did manage another Trout. Back around at Seymore's we fished some dock pilings and this did the trick. Matt found a nice Black "puppy" Drum then he and Garrett took turns hooking up with the Drum. Carter was on the net and did an outstanding job pulling them in to the boat. They also added a couple of feisty Redfish to their catch total.
Our final stop was down at Broward Island, fishing under a Bald Eagle. The current was really ripping but Matt did manage to get one more Trout out of the deep. We had stayed busy at a couple of spots reeling in 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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