Rainy Day Fishing

I had a trip set up this morning and as I hooked up the boat it was drizzling rain.  But the radar on my cell phone showed it clearing so I grabbed some live shrimp at the bait store and met Bob and Butch Solomon down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp.  We headed up to fish the Horsehead area on the last couple of hours of the incoming tide.  The first stretch of Marsh Grass produce a few good bites, with Bob landing the first fish, a hungry Seatrout and then he followed that up with a keeper sized Trout.  Both anglers had brief encounters with slashing Shark then Butch had a good

hookup.  We could tell this was a bigger fish and not a shark!  Butch played the fish patiently and after a good battle, landed a nice 20.25" big Seatrout!  We continued to fish the area, had some good bites, landed a small Jack Crevalle and a couple of Ladyfish, then headed around to fish the Nassau River and ran....right into a rain storm!  We all grabbed ponchos and rain jackets and settled in at Seymore's Pointe to fish the rocks with live shrimp under floats.  I took just a few minutes and then those floats started going under with almost every cast.  Once we got the hang of it we started landing fat Mangrove Snapper with many of them being of keeper size.  The ran came down in huge drops, sometimes steady, sometimes heavy, and always a drizzle. But these experienced anglers were here to fish and fish we did!  We went through all of our bait and had a nice box full of fish before we called it a day, another great (albeit wet) day to be fishing Amelia Island waters!