We then ran thru Horsehead and over to Poteat Pointe where I thought for sure we'd get into some Redfish. Raj had noted that it was his first time fishing and it was he that "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked up and landed a feisty Jack Crevalle. We had a couple of nibbles along that stretch but no more takers, other than fat Catfish that David put in the boat. We crossed back to Jackstaff and fished a creek off of it with the floats and again, not much happening.
After running back thru Horsehead and down to the Back River we fished a stretch with the oysters now showing (that high tide wasn't very high and it didn't take very long for the oysters to start popping up). We did have a bit of luck here - David hooked up and caught a hungry Seatrout then he followed that up with a Redfish catch. We had one other small Redfish from that spot before we moved on.
Over on the other side we drifted some floats along the marsh grass and here Raj got busy - he picked up a small Redfish then battled a hard fighting Jack - this one was ripping some drag - it made a dash from the grass to deep water then took Raj from the bow to the stern. Raj worked it in slowly and soon landed the Jack Crevalle.
Fishing down at Spanish Drop with jigs, it was David who put a nice Flounder in the boat on his first or second cast. We fished two or three drainages with the jigs and minnows but not much was happening as the sun had gotten up. They had counted Nine fish plus one "oyster fish" caught for the day and although it wasn't "on fire", we had a bit of action and had caught our first fish 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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