This 23" Red Had Some Bulk

 Finally! I was back fishing this morning, meeting Larry and Connie Soper up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early (6:30am) - we wanted to beat the heat, and we did! We eased out of Eagans Creek and made a fairly long run up and over to the Jolley River, and up it to JC's Spot to fish the very last few minutes of an outgoing tide with jigs and live shrimp. If you had stock in mud minnows you'd be making your retirement - they are seriously scarce! We worked along the exposed oysters and Larry began to "set the hook" and had a good handful of feisty Redfish brought to the net. 

We then moved over to the MOA as the tide changed and fished it's oyster beds. Again, Larry had good
action catching those smaller but fun to catch Redfish while Connie "coached him up". Larry was tossing to the the mouth of the horseshoe and had made an excellent cast and when the next fish hit and began ripping drag, we knew he had a big one, Fish On!  This fish was ripping drag and not coming in - a tale-tale sign that it was Slot. Larry played it patiently, worked it in slowly, and soon landed a bulky 23.25" Slot Redfish, boy what a fish!

Working back down Jolley ( we didn't see another boat all morning up here), we made a stop at Snook Creek and worked that bank with float rigs and almost immediately caught a handful of those feisty Redfish. It was almost too easy. Our next stop was further down the river at Tyger Cut. We fished one side of the flooding shell point and had a couple of bites but no takers, then we moved around to back side of the shell and this did the trick. The fish were hanging on that back side waiting for bait and Larry's well placed casts produced  bites. He hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout, then had a handful of high flying Ladyfish, then added another hungry Seatrout to his catch. 

Our last stop was on the outside of Tyger, fishing the jigs again. We had a bunch of nibbles but no takers so we headed back to the ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.