New Anglers Find Some Action

I fished this morning with Jason Wells and his two younger kids Allison and Joah, meeting them out at Goffinsville Park boat ramp early. We made a short trip down and back up to the mouth of Back River to fish a stretch of oysters on a tide that had been going out for a few hours - the oysters were well exposed. I don't normally fish that stretch on a low tide but thought I'd give it a try, but now I know why - we didn't get much of a bite drifting the float rigs. But the two young anglers got a taste of the float rig and them being more difficult to cast, it was a good start. They both picked it up quickly and were making excellent casts and getting good drifts.

We made a short run down to a drainage on the Nassau and this paid off. Allison "knocked the skunk off" when, after making and excellent casts with a jig and live shrimp to some exposed oysters, she hooked up and expertly played to the net a feisty Redfish. Shortly after that she had another bite, this one stronger. Allison worked it patiently in and landed a big 17" Flounder. As we worked a few of those drainages Joah got in on the action - he reeled in a couple of Jacks, his own Flounder and a Catfish. Noah was getting some long casts and both he and Allison hung in there fishing, even when it got hotter later in the morning. And boy did it get hot!

We had caught a few fish, seen some Rosette Spoonbills and dolphin, and had a nice Flounder in the box, 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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