Shark Battles

I did a quick trip this afternoon with Tom Pool and his wife Terri, meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle ramp. We ran over to the outside of Tyger and fished with float rigs on a tide that had been going out for just a bit and it paid off - Tom hooked up and landed Seatrout. We ran up to the Jolley River and fished the "bank" with the float rigs. Tom was getting excellent drifts and again, it paid off -his float slowly went under and he had a hookup!

Tom was playing the fish expertly and I had already grabbed the net  when I saw that it was a nice Redfish and just when Tom said, "I gotta get a picture of this"....fish off! Ouch!

But he wasn't to be deterred. We ran on up the Jolley and fished both sides Snook Creek and each side Tom battled a Bonnethead Shark, landing both of them for pictures and release. We tried our hand with the jigs at the MOA, then at a drainage on the outside of Tyger then toured Cumberland Island, Fort Clinch and Old Town before heading back to the ramp and counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida