Fishing With Pappa

| By Seamus on 11/5/2025 7:25:00 PM | Views (1)

We waited for the tide to turn before we started today - I met David Bolton and his grandson Michael over at their dock on Lanceford Creek at 9am - the tide had just turned and started out. It was a beautiful morning with sunshine, clear skies, and just a slight breeze. We didn't go far - we came around to Soap Creek and fished a large drainage with float rigs and live shrimp and I think it was first cast and BAM! Float Gone! Michael reeled it in expertly and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout. Now that's the way to start a fishing trip. We fished that spot thoroughly and it paid off. All three of us stayed busy hooking up and catching Trout. We had enough int he box that I had to check once in a while to make sure we didn't go over their limit. Five year old Michael had a couple of times where he saw the "take", hooked it up and reeled it in.

I felt like it might be hard to beat that first stop but boy was I mistaken! We motored out of Soap, then down Lanceford for just a short ways and pulled up at another drainage and started pitching to some strong current where I was hoping for some more Trout, but got no bites. David had went up into a pocket with his cast where the current wasn't so strong, let it drift naturally and BAM! Big Fish On! This one was ripping drag and running south! David and Michael teamed up with Michael on the reel and David supporting the rod. They fought it from port to starboard and back and after a good battle landed a nice 23" Slot Redfish. We got busy again! I knew there as a shell bed over there and we could toss our floats up to either side and we got fish, one Redfish after the other. Again, Michael hooked his own up and expertly battled it to the net. I think we had 3 more Slot Reds at that spot, including some smaller "rat" Reds.

After running down Lanceford, up the Bell, thru Tyger and around to the outside of Tyger, we pulled up on a point and fished jigs and shrimp on the bottom and played cat and mouse with the pigfish. Around towards the Jolley, still on the outside of Tyger, we fished a sandy drainage, hoping for Flounder, but got skunked. Up in the Jolley we switched back to the float rigs and worked a bank, to no avail, then made one more run around to the "Super Secret Spot" where we switched back to jigs and worked some shell "cutsz'', and this did the trick!

Those smaller rods fit Michael pretty good and after a bit of instruction he was making his own casts (5 years old, mind you). As a trio we caught 3-4 more Reds, one of them beingin the Slot size, and Michael cast, hooked up and landed one of those all on his own. He also caught a couple of small Black "puppy" Drum to round out his Amelia Island Back Country Slam. We had caught our limit in Redfish, came close to the limit in Seatrout, learned to cast a spinning rod, had a beautiful day of fishing, so as we headed back to the dock we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.

Catch Information

Species:
Flounder

Pigfish

Red Drum

Spotted Seatrout

This Fishing Report was submitted on 11/5/2025 7:25:00 PM by Seamus and last updated on 11/7/2025 10:12:27 PM.

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10 Ash Street
Fernandina Beach, FL US

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