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.
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.
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