All Before The High Tide

 

I was back at it today, fishing with David and Lynn Beauchamp, meeting them early down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We kicked off a busy week of fishing, I hope, if the weather cooperates. We were about an hour into our trip today when 15 minutes of rain passed over us, but luckily we all had rain coats! Our first stop was up the Nassau, at Spanish Drop, drifting float rigs on a tide that had already covered the shell and was still coming in. Both anglers were getting  good casts and good drifts and we had a few bites here and there but no takers.

We motored further up the river to Twin Creeks and fished it with the float rigs. Again, we had bites but
we didn't get fish until we began to drift with the current. Lynn had gotten a good cast and as her float drifted along the grass and right beyond a point, BAM! Float gone!  Lynn caught up to it, and let the hook set and fish on! Lynn played it perfectly and brought to the net a nice Slot Redfish. That spot produced a good handful of fish in addition to that one - Ladyfish and Jack Crevalle.

We then ran up to Pumpkin Hill and drifted the last of the incoming tide. The duo landed more Ladyfish and Jacks and when we drifted a point it was David's turn to hook the big one. He had "gone long" with a drift and paid off when he hooked up and landed a big fat Seatrout. They caught a handful of just undersized Trout, and a....Catfish. When that tide hit the top we noticed that the grass had flooded, something I didn't expect. but that north east wind must have been pushing it in.

There might have been a few more bites on the first of an outgoing tide but we had no takers. Even though we got wet early, we were treated to a couple of pretty rainbows, we had a couple of nice fish in the box and the day had turned out beautiful so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.