St Simons Island Fishing Report 5/20, 5/22/11

We ran a couple trips this weekend for some folks who wanted to throw all artificial lures.  Friday's trip with Garrett and his father Glenn was a pretty decent bite of keeper trout.  For some reason, we had 7 or 8 fish come unbuttoned, including a large trout that I simply missed with the net.  We had a nice flounder inhale a DOA shrimp that day as well.  Glenn & Garrett did an awesome job working plastics, and headed back to Atlanta with half a dozen nice trout and a big fat flattie.

Sunday's charter with William, his son Cole and David was another artificial mission.  Our plan was to get on the hot flounder bite with jigs, and everything pretty much fell into place.  As the tide got right, these guys went to work pulling up flounder after flounder.  Weeded through some smaller ones and break-offs, and ended up taking 10 good ones back to the dock, including two right at 20".  We managed a few shots at some spooky reds that weren't interested and picked off 5 small trout on soft plastics as well.  Sorry for the shortage of pics, as I only had my cellphone camera.  Our Cannon went into the drink on a previous trip, and we have a new waterproof version on the way!