Fishing Lure

 These will be short - it's getting late and I've got a trip early tomorrow...

I fished with Cal early today, meeting him out at Goffinsville Park boat ramp for a fishing trip and then a tour of the area - he's a new property owner and wanted to check the river out. We hit Twin Creeks down the Nassau and drifted floats with the current - Cal caught on to the game early and knocked the rust off his cast in no time. We had no bites, just nibbles, so we moved on. Over at Pumpkin Hill we hit paydirt.

Cal was getting excellent drifts and it paid off. He began to get keeper sized Seatrout, one of which was right at 20" - all fish caught on this trip were released. We caught a good number of fish before we moved on to the tour - we visited Broward Island, Seymore's Point, ran thru Horsehead and over to the Intracoastal, then down to Nassau Sound and the bridges before making our way back up the Nassau and to Goffinsville Park. It was a great day to be out fishing and touring the waters of Amelia Island. 

This afternoon I fished with John Raker and his mother Betty, after having a lunch of cold pizza!  It was an afternoon of quality over quantity! The tide was going out so we motored across the way to Back River  and found an outflow to fish - John caught a small Redfish and Betty picked up a small Trout. Over at Twin Creeks we went to jigs, didn't get much, so moved down to a drainage where Betty perfected the "Betty Twirl" - a technique where she spins in the rear seat, brings the rod over her head, and the battle is back on! She expertly landed a bulky 25" Slot Redfish! Back at Nassauville John hooked up and landed a nice 19" Flounder (out of season) and down at Broward he followed that up with another Flounder, this one right at 16". We finished up the day north of Broward, working a bank. John caught a feisty Redfish and then a hungry Seatrout then Betty finished things up with another Slot Redfish, this one measuring at 23". We had some good fish caught this afternoon 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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