What a great day! After meeting Roger and Tina Pickett down at Sawpit Creek boat ramp early this morning we headed up the intracoastal with dolphins rolling off to our port. Our first stop was up at Poteat Point and first cast produced a fish - Tina was on the rod to "knock the skunk off" when she expertly battled a big Jack Crevalle to the net. Both anglers got busy caching fish - more Jacks, a Ladyfish, a Seatrout and a couple of Redfish, one of which was in the Slot (all fish caught today were released). While we were fishing Tina heard a noise behind us and when we checked it out we saw a few Manatee surfacing not far off.
We ran thru Horsehead and down to Back River and fished the outgoing tide and here they picked up a couple more Redfish. It seemed every Red that Roger caught had multiple spots with one having 16 - a sure money winner in any Spot Tournament. We crossed the river and fished a stretch of grass and here Tina hooked up with one more Red. Around the corner we fished across a sandbar and finally got "skunked", but as I was going to lift the trolling motor to leave a Tripletail drifted right back to us - kinda cool to see.
We fished Littlefield with jigs for just a bit, then went around to Seymore's Point and fished some dock pilings where Roger nabbed another keeper sized Trout, then we made our way down to Spanish Drop. The duo added another Redfish to the catch total, then Roger wrapped things up nicely with a keeper sized Flounder, caught on a mud minnow. We had a good day of fishing, had seen some neat wildlife and so as we headed back to the ramp we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.
