First Cast Blast

 After a long week out in Colorado to see my daughter, son-in-law and grandkids, I was back on the water today with the Bailey boys - Douglas and his sons Anderson and Dylan. We met down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early then ran up the intracoastal, up the Back River, and around to Pumpkin Hill where we set up tossing float rigs and mud minnows. Anderson jumped up on the stern platform and made an excellent cast to the left of a grass clump - it drifted down along side it and BAM! Float gone~ and it was a nice fish! Anderson played it perfectly and patiently and after a good battle he landed a nice 22.25" Slot Redfish. First Cast of the day!

We drifted that stretch a good number of times and had nibbles here and there, then Anderson, not giving up the stern, went looooong with a drift and had another take -we could tell it was a nice fish when it rolled up. He worked it in slowly and landed another 22.5" Slot Redfish. We then moved up to a point and drifted the other side and Anderson stayed hot. He had made a cast up to the grass, worked it out when it snagged, let it drift and, float gone again. He caught up to it and had the hookup, then brought to the net a nice keeper sized Seatrout. 

We fished further down the Nassau, then ran over to Seymore's Pointe and drifted a point of grass, to no avail, then ran thru Horsehead and over to Poteat Point. We worked up the grass then back down and had zero bites, then we came over to Jackstaff "bank" and worked along it. Somewhere amongst those spots we caught a couple of Catfish and Ladyfish but when we crossed over the creek and switched to jigs we finally hit paydirt. Dylan had made a good cast up into the cut - was hopeing for a bite when he got further out but he had a strong bite right when it hit the water and, Fish On!  Dylan worked it in on this lighter outfit, let it run, worked it in, then brought to the net another 23" Slot Red - they had their limit! Douglas picked up a Seatrout fishing off the stern and out deeper. 

We ran back thru Horsehead and back up to Back River and switched back to floats where Dougals
hooked up and landed a nice13 Spot Redfish. We fished between two docks at Littlefield, then made our way down the Nassau. The trio had a few Ladyfish hookups then Douglas added another Redfish to his catch total, then Dylan wrapped things up with two hungry Flounder catches. We had a beautiful morning, had some good fish in the box, so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.