Last Minute Big Red

 My computer power cord went out yesterday and I wasn't able to post the trip! I got another cord today so I'm back in business,  here's a brief report from yesterday...

I met Chris Sorah and his dad Ken down at Sawpit Creek on a beautiful early morning and we  made a long run up the Nassau and up to Broward Islands to catch the first of an incoming tide. Bad first pick. The conditions were outstanding - clear skies, almost zero breeze, and a slow incoming tide - you'd think we'd catch fish, right? We didn't have much of a nibble until finally, Ken "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a 17 15/16" Redfish. We ran further up the river and dipped into a creek and fished some downed logs there and this time, not even a bite. The logs and islands just werent working. 

We then broke out the float rigs and drifted the flooding marsh grass at Pumpkin Hill and this did the trick. The duo picked up a handful of Seatrout with one of them being of keeper size. Chris had big fish on that I felt sure was a huge Seatrout - Chris played her perfectly but she threw the hook. Ouch. We moved down the way and fished a grassy finger that seems to produce big Trout on occasion and it didn't disappoint! On Chris's first drift, BAM! Big Fish ON! He worked it patiently to the boat and landed an oversized 19"+ Trout. 

We fished back down the Nassau and picked up a Jack or two, and had a big Shark fight, then as we
were about to wrap up Chris had his float disappear and that drag began to sing!  I keep being wrong - I thought for sure it was another Shark, but like Chris said, "it ran hard but not long" and sure enough, when he wore the fish out and brought it to the net - it was a bruiser of a 26" Redfish, boy what a fish, the biggest Red I've had in a while. And with that, we headed back to the ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.