AIGA Inshore Classic Fishing Tournament is ON!

 

BREAKING NEWS!

The 9th Annual AIGA Inshore Classic is ON! And scheduled for Friday October 24, 2005 (the Captains meeting) and tournament it self is on Saturday October 25, 2025. Both will be hosted by Old Town Bait and Tackle at 1620 N. 14th Street, Fernandina Beach, Florida.

HELP US HELP OUR VETERANS!  All net proceeds will be shared with our local American Legion Post 54.

All anglers need to be at the Captains meeting on  Friday October 24th. Final registration will begin at  6pm with the meeting beginning at 6:45pm. No entries will be accepted after 7pm.You can download and print the Rules and Entry Form here. 

The tournament will commence at daylight, Saturday October 25,2025.

There will be two Categories:                                                                                                                         1) All anglers  are required to enter the Redfish Spot Tournament. The legal Redfish with the most spots wins!                                                                                                                                                       2) A boat aggregate of one legal Seatrout and one legal Redfish. The boat with the heaviest two fish wins!  ALL ENTRY MONEY WILL BE PAID OUT IN PRIZE MONEY. Please encourage your friends to fish the tournament - the more anglers the bigger the prizes.  

There will be a youth division for the Redfish Spot Tournament with trophies and prize money. 

NOTE: the Amelia Island Guides Association shares the net proceeds of this tournament with the American Legion Post 54. Over the years the AIGA has donated over $21,000 to veterans organizations

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Spotted Fish

 

We had another beautiful day today when I fished with "birthday boy"  Garland Clark. We met up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp and made our way over to the outside of Tyger and began pitching jigs and minnows and live shrimp to the bank on an outgoing tide. I thought we had a big one on when Garland's drag ripped and the fish ran deeper - and it was kinda - Garland expertly played it and brought to the boat a hard fighting Jack Crevalle.  We had a number of good bites but no more takers so we moved around to fish Jolley "bank" with the jigs and here it got busier.

As we worked along the exposed oysters, pitching the jigs, Garland had multiple hookups and catches of feisty Redfish. They were all a dark copper color and most of them had multiple spots. One of the fish had 20 spots on it, a sure money winner in the AIGA's Inshore Classic spot category. We picked up a couple of  Seatrout, too, one of which was of keeper size. (All fish caught today were released).  

Moving on up to the river we fished JC's spot and  here we added another good handful of those Redfish and another Trout or two. We then bounced over to the MOA, fished it good, caught Redfish and Trout, then we moved on.  Our final stop was back at Tyger Island and as we were running we could see bait (pogeys) getting blown up. We pulled up, baited a float rig and tossed it out. In seconds Garland was hooked up. This was a big fish and was ripping some serious drag then it broke off and kept going..heading to Kings Bay! But we switched rods, baited up, and tossed another one out. And in seconds Garland was hooked up again,  He battled it expertly and soon landed a big Jack Crevalle.

We did make it around to Tyger logs, fished it with jigs, and added a keeper sized Flounder to round out an Amelia Island Back Country Slam, and then we headed back to ramp, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.