What A Start

| By Seamus on 9/23/2024 3:55:00 PM | Views (21)

After last week's high tides and slow fishing I have to admit I was a bit worried about today's fishing but I had to "council" myself - we had good weather forecasted and we had a good tide so we surely would catch fish! I met William and Dara Blalock out at Goffinsville Park early and the forecast was correct - it was a beautiful morning. We made a very short run across river and set up on a wide bend to fish the last of an outgoing tide and as we pulled up we could see bait moving down the bank and getting busted. We had a live well full of Shrimp and a about two dozen finger mullet to "toss at 'em".

Dara and William made their first casts and BAM! BAM! They began to get hookups. Feisty Redfish were gobbling their shrimp and we stayed catching for about an hour. We did try a couple of the mullet but they didn't seem to want them. We moved up and down the bank and the fish seemed to be in shallower water. Eventually the bite slowed and we moved on.

Our next stop was down the Nassau where we eased up to a large drainage, switched to jigs, and fished the bottom. William was fishing a shrimp and Dara was fishing a finger mullet and when she felt a "bump" she let the fish have it for a second or two, set the hook and....we thought she had a fish...YES! Fish On! Dara worked it to the boat patiently and landed a big 18" Flounder. Up on the bow, William switched to mullet and began to fish out deeper and when he got that tell-tell "bump", he set the hook and reeled in a hungry Seatrout. He stayed with that strategy and hauled in another one. After Dara reeled in another Flounder, this one small, we moved on.

After making our way up to some docks at Seymore's we fished the pilings. Right off William had a strong bite - he set the hook, had 'em on for just a bit and BAP! Fish off. Ouch. William did hook up and land couple of Mangrove Snapper, one of which was of keeper size. We then made our way down to Broward Island and fished the north end for a bit, then we moved down to the south end and began to work our way north. Just as we reached the "hot spot" Dara put a cast up to the edge of the bank (Note:she had another finger mullet on) and BAM! Right up next to the shore sat a big fish and it took her mullet (and hook) and began to rip some drag. Dara kept that pressure on - it boiled a couple of times and knew it was a big Red. It made it's way to some tree limbs but Dara pulled it out and worked it in and we netted a beautiful golden bronze 25" Slot Redfish, boy what a fish. The duo added another smaller Red to the catch total before we move on.

We finished up drifting floats at Pumpkin Hill - William got his Slam when he put a feisty Black "puppy" Drum in the boat, then we headed back and called it another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.

Catch Information

Species:
Flounder

Gray Snapper

Red Drum

Spotted Seatrout

This Fishing Report was submitted on 9/23/2024 3:55:00 PM by Seamus and last updated on 9/25/2024 2:07:25 AM.

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10 Ash Street
Fernandina Beach, FL US

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