Trout Splash

I fished Friday to wrap the week up - it was a bit cool when I met Willam and Dara Blalock out at
Goffinsville Park. We made a good run down the Nassau and thru Horsehead and over to Poteat Point to make our first stop and I'm glad I had my heavier North Face on! The tide was still up so we went with float rigs and worked the grass. Not much was happening but Dara did pick a up a feisty Redfish to "knock the skunk off". We came back to Jackstaff and pitched to a large outflow. Dara said she saw some movement up in a pocket of grass, made a cast and missed, but she quickly went back to it and BAM! Another feisty Redfish was caught.

The wind wasn't real strong but it was blowing almost 10 and with it being cool it was a little
uncomfortable. So we ran back thru Horsehead and began to work some docks at Seymore's. I'd pull in and let them fish the docks on either side of us, back out, moved down a dock and do it again. We were on about the 5th dock when William, after having made a great cast up into the pilings, had a strong "thump" and he had a hookup. He worked it at and played it tot he net to land a nice 20" Seatrout. Before I could get it unhooked Dara was hooked up. She brought in another keeper Trout and then for a while they were catching and landing Seatrout. I was huffing and puffing before it was over with! They finished with five keeper Trout in the box.

We moved down the Nassau and fished some drainages with jigs and shrimp and minnows. Dara hauled in a sizable Flounder (out of season) and William battled a what was probably a big Redfish for a good few minutes before it threw the hook. OUCH! It will have to be caught another day! The sun was up, we had some fish 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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