Love Struck Bucks

 I wrapped my week up fishing with Mark and Brent Laurint, meeting them down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp early - it was a beautiful morning as we pulled away from the dock - we left Sawpit and turned north on the intracoastal and as we were approaching the sound, Mark and Brent yelled something about "DEER". I looked over to the marsh at the tip of Black Hammock and there were four deer dashing thru the grass heading north with us! We got to the sound and turned up towards the Nassau River and we saw that all four deer had leaped into the river and were swimming towards Amelia Island, boy what a sight! We went into neutral and watched them go and they had a long way to swim!

We continued on up the Nassau, all the way to Seymore's Point, and fished some dock pilings with jigs and live shrimp on a tide that had been coming in for a couple of hours. It wasn't "on fire" but we did get a couple of nice Seatrout with one of them being of keeper size. We then moved back down the Nassau to Spanish Drop and worked the bank with  the jigs and this paid off handsomely - the duo put a good handful of Seatrout in the boat with a few of them keeper sized. Brent had a hard hookup - he played it expertly  as it dashed to the stern and eventually he brought to the net the first Redfish of the day. We then moved down to Twin Creeks and fished it with floats and again, more Seatrout - they were almost at their limit!

Our next stop was down at Broward Island, fishing jigs to the bank and here Mark hooked and landed a hungry Flounder. We then moved up to Pumpkin Hill and fished both sides of the point and caught more.........Seatrout! And they had limited out, three apiece!  After running way up the Nassau we dipped into a small creek and worked the bank good with the jigs. Both anglers were making good casts and it paid off. Brent struck first - he had a strong bite and played it perfectly to the net to land a nice Slot Redfish. Mark added another Flounder then as we were about to wrap up he went up under a leaning Oak tree and BAM! Fish on! It was ripping drag so we knew it had some heft and sure enough, after a good battle, Mark landed another Slot Redfish - they their limit is Reds, too.! The sun was out, it had warmed enough to take our jackets off and so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.