Dibs and Dabs

 Dibs and Dabs was what my late mother-in-law called the spread of leftovers she'd put out for dinner. But today I was calling the fish we were catching "dibs and dabs" - we caught a handful of small but feisty Redfish, a Catfish, a hard fighting Jack Crevalle, a Black "puppy" and a handful of some rather large (for here) Mangrove Snapper.

I fished with Bob Blalock, meeting him out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp and we quickly headed over to Broward Island and fished the logs as the tide began to turn and come back in. Bob caught a couple of Reds and the Catfish, then we moved up to the end of the island as the tide really started to come in. Here, Bob had the strongest hookup of the morning, was playing him expertly and...he's off. Ouch. But we did get three 12" Mangroves along that stretch.

We fished Twin Creeks and here Bob hooked up and landed the Black Drum - on a mud minnow, which surprised the heck out of me. After moving down to Spanish Drop and working that bank, Bob picked up a feisty Jack Crevalle on the back side of a pocket. 

After coming back up the river to Pumpkin Hill, we drifted minnows long on float rigs and caught another Red, and again we had a strong bite way back down the grass line. The big fished rolled once, ripped a bit of drag and again, he was off!  Double ouch! 

We finished up at Seymore's Pointe and landed a couple of more Mangroves before we called it a day and headed back, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Fl.