In Fine Company

After a terrible, long day of non-stop rain  yesterday, we awoke to clear skies, a tad bit cooler temperatures, and slight winds today. I met Eddie Byrd and Bob Kossman up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp on a tide that still had about 2  hours to finish hitting bottom. We made the run  over to Lanceford Creek and fished some docks on what I thought should be an ideal tide. But all we had were nibblers! We worked some oyster shells where there was some movement going on, then fished another dock then moved on. 

Our next stop was over at Soap Creek, towards the end of the tide, and boy, I hadn't seen it this low in a while! There were sandbars where I didn't know there were sandbars! We fished with jigs and shrimp and Bob finally "knocked the skunk off" with a Seatrout catch. 

We dropped back towards Fernandina and fished some marsh drainages and here we got a wildlife show! There were 3-4 Salt Marsh Minks(Google says that's a "company") running along the

bank and swimming out into the river, and behind us, Porpoise were busting fish they had corralled in a small cove.

After a run back to Tyger Island, we worked that bank with the jigs and shrimp on the first of an incoming tide. Eddie got on the board with a keeper sized Seatrout catch, then Bob followed that up with one of his own. The wind had picked up so we made our last stop over at Eagans Creek, working in between docks and picked up a handful of small Trout, a Catfish, and a Stingray! It had been a beautiful day, we had some seen some wildlife, and had a couple of fish in the box for dinner so as we headed back, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.