Fishing Lure

 

It's almost downhill when your first fish of the day is an oversized Redfish! I had met Scott Carter and his father-in-law Gary down at Sawpit Creek late this morning - we wanted to take advantage of some warmer weather and an outgoing tide. It was at the top of the tide when we arrived up at Pumpkin Hill and set out float rigs as the tide eased to a stop. I was hoping for Seatrout, and expecting them, but we had no real takers. We moved around a point and again drifted floats (slowly) and when Scott's float disappeared and his drag began to rip we knew it was a big fish. I'm about 50/50 on my guesses lately and I guessed this one wrong -"SHARK,  I called it". Boy was a I wrong. This fish went long and deep and back again, ripping drag. Eventually we saw it was a huge Redfish. Scott worked it in and landed the 32.5" Oversized Redfish and put himself in a three way tie for First Place in the Anglers Mark 2025 Bragging Rights Tournament-Redfish Category (scroll down the right side of this report for standings.)

We made our next stop over in Nassauville and switched to jigs and here Gary came on strong!  He
hooked and brought to the boat a Flounder, then probably one of the biggest Weakfish I've ever had on the boat, and then a small Sea Bass. Scott put a couple of Flounder in the boat, one which would have made "keeper" if it wasn't out of season, then he thought he was hung up on the bottom, but it moved! I saw his rod as he worked it in and it bounced every once in a while. Scott kept the pressure on and sure enough, when it came to the surface, we saw it was a Door Mat! The big Flounder made a couple of runs when it saw the boat, but luckily Scott kept that pressure on, and eventually landed a 25.5" Flounder, a fish that blows him right into the Bragging Rights lead for that category. Boy what fish. Note that Scott had the biggest Flounder last year, too!

We hit a couple of drainages down the Nassau, tossing the jigs, had some nibbles, caught an undersized Redfish and enjoyed the sunshine, then we headed back to the ramp and counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.

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