I met Nick Nist and his fishing buddy out at Goffinsville Park this morning - we had the last few hours of an outgoing tide so we made a run down the Nassau, turned into that outgoing current, and began pitching jigs and live shrimp to the drainages. We had action, just not what we were looking for - Bonnethead Shark made our drags rip a couple of times. We did get a couple of small Flounder, then we cast netted for some perfect sized finger Mullet. Kinda crazy, but Nick hooked up and landed a nice sized Whiting, caught on a mullet!
We worked that bank up and down, hitting the shell beds and drainages and caught a couple of small but feisty Reds, then we made the run thru Horsehead and fished Jackstaff "bank". We then bounced over to Poteat Point and fished the edges there. I had switched Simon to a float rig and as he drifted it long with the incoming current he began to get fish. One was a hard fighting Jack Crevalle that took him from stern to bow and back again. He played it perfectly and eventually landed a huge backwater Jack. After fishing a creek off of Jackstaff we made the run back towards the boat ramp but as we were running Nick had asked if we were getting any Mangrove Snapper so I pulled up at Littlefield and we went back to the jigs and shrimp.
We all got a couple of "bumps", Nick had a good "thump" and then later we had a strong hookup. Nick played it patiently to the boat and Simon scooped it with the net - a doormat of a Flounder! This fish measured right at 21" - big enough to move Nick into 1st Place in the 2025 Anglers Mark Bragging Rights Tournament -Flounder Category (scroll down the right side of this report for standings). Boy what a fish. Back at the ramp, we dressed that Flounder for stuffing, maybe with a little bit of Whiting mixed in, and as we wrapped the trip up we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
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