Finally Some Decent Weather

 

After almost a weeks' worth of windy and rainy weather, we had a beautiful one today!  I had met Hank Prolog and his fishing buddies Ron and Harry down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and with the tide almost at the bottom, we ran up the intracoastal and then up the Nassau to make our first stop at a nice drainage with plans to pitch jigs and live shrimp. NOTE, even though it was right at low tide, the oysters were barely showing, 

Although we didn't get anything real big today, these anglers stayed with it and it paid off with some good action, here and there. We fished along the Nassau a few spots, then ran down to Broward and fished the last of the outgoing there, then up the river to a small creek, then back out to Pumpkin Hill where we switched to float rigs and the shrimp. We lost count of the small but feisty Redfish we caught - I guessed 8-9 Reds, and a small Trout, a small Flounder, a small Black Drum, a Catfish a handful of "baitstealers"  and a small Sea Bass, then finally Ron hooked up and landed a keeper sized Black Drum for ceviche! 

It had been a beautiful day and we had some action so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.