Tale of Two Tides

 I was back at it this morning, fishing with the Wolfe's - Tim and Laura - and meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. While we were in the area, and with the tide still going out, we bumped around to the old Sawpit bridge and set up current to drift slip floats back to the bridge with live shrimp as bait. It only took a few drifts before Laura "knocked the skunk off" with a Seatrout catch, one of keeper size.  And a little later she picked up another, then she landed the first Ladyfish of the year.

We then ran up the intercoastal, just beyond Jackstaff, and fished some exposed oyster beds with jigs and the shrimp. I was encouraging Tim to toss up near the oysters with his casts but Laura was fishing out deeper and again, she hooked up and landed a few hungry Seatrout. Tim finally hooked up and landed a Seatrout  to get on the board, then tangled with another Ladyfish.

After running thru Horsehead and around to Seymore's Pointe we fished some dock pilings and Tim added to his numbers by boating a good handful of Mangrove Snapper. The tide had finally started in and that's when things went downhill. We fished Nassauville Rocks, Broward Island, Twin Creeks and Spanish Drop and only had nibbles. But we had some great weather and had caught fish early so as we headed back to the dock we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.