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Weeding Thru the Ladies to get the Big One

 | By Seamus on 8/22/2025 9:22:00 PM | Views (1)

 Pretty day today -sunshine, clear skies, and just a light breeze. I had met John Raker out at Goffinsville
Park on a tide that was high and still coming in - I was feeling confident that we were going to catch fish today. We had a bait well of live shrimp as we eased away from the dock and made our way down the Nassau River to pull up at Twin Creeks where we had such good bites a couple of week ago. But not today! Well, we had bites, but if we hooked one up it was a Ladyfish! After drifting with the current for a bit we moved on, making our next stop back up the river at Pumpkin Hill. 


John was getting good casts and good drifts with his float and live shrimp and again, we caught Ladyfish. We moved around the corner and fished the point, then worked our way down to some flooded marsh grass and again, Ladyfish. This was getting old! After a run down the river and thru Jackstaff and over to the Poteat Point area we worked the first of an outgoing tide. Finally!  John caught a few hungry Seatrout - all measuring right at 13". We move over to Poteat Point and fished that thoroughly, but to no avail. 

Our final stop was back over in Jackstaff. I had noticed over the last few months that the current had washed out a pocket at a point of grass and I had fished it twice before and caught Redfish as the water flowed over the old bank. John switched to jigs and shrimp and I think it was on his first cast he had a hookup and landed a Trout. He kept going to the same spot and caught another couple of Trout, one of which was of keeper size. He then fought a feisty Redfish to the boat and I was feeling a bit better about the trip. My head was turned when I heard the tale-tale sound of drag ripping so I knew, Big Fish On! When I looked up I could see the fish had dug around what was left of the point, then it came back out and went deep, ripping that drag and boiling up - a Big Redfish for sure. John kept the pressure on, came back to the stern of the boat and battled it from port to starboard, starboard to port and back again. John stayed patient and after long battle he brought to the net an Oversized 30.25" bulky Redfish, boy what a fish! 

We caught another couple of Seatrout after that, one of them a keeper.  We had dealt with Ladyfish all morning, put a handful of Seatrout in the boat, and battled a huge Redfish so as we headed back to the ramp, we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.  




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This Fishing Report was submitted on 8/22/2025 9:22:00 PM by Seamus and last updated on 8/24/2025 3:42:30 PM.


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Fernandina Beach, FL US


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