I Gotta Change My Hat

The hat I've been wearing isn't working. The last couple of trips,  I've had good anglers and decent weather but we've had to work to find some fish.  Today was no exception, but we did catch a few.  Claude and Melanie Owens and their two sons Trey and Trevor had met me at the Atlantic Seafood dock down at the Fernandina Harbor Marina this morning and it was a beautiful day. However the wind was blowing somewhat so we headed up to Tiger Island and got in around behind it and BOOM BOOM, Trout hookup by
Claude and Trout hookup by Trey!  I thought, "oh boy, here we go"!  But that was about it.  We made a run up to the Jolley River and fished "the bank" with float rigs with no real bites, moved up to Snook Creek, with no real bites and then on past to the next runout and had no real bites.  The wind was really playing havoc with the boat, the casting and the fishing so we ran back to the Tiger logs and fished out of the wind.  Trevor caught a hungry Whiting and then as he patiently worked his bait, a nice keeper sized Flounder hooked up and Trevor played it to the net.  We ran around to fish the Rayonier pipeline and again caught a couple of Seatrout then finished up at the Rayonier warehouse with another Seatrout.   So all told we had 4-6 Seatrout, a nice Flounder and a Whiting. These anglers gave it a good shot and had great attitudes and enjoyed being out on Amelia Island waters fishing as a family!