The Rain Let Up

We've endured about a week of rain here at Amelia Island but the weather forecast called for only a 20% chance of rain this morning so Mike Gintoff, is buddy John Souter made the short drive from Elizabeth Pointe Lodge and met me down at the Atlantic Seafood boat ramp to chance an early morning fishing trip.  As it turned out, we didn't get wet,  but the wind made it difficult for my boatmanship and the anglers fishing.  However, these two anglers had great attitudes and were up to the challenge!  We fished the docks of Lanceford Creek and even though we were out of the wind
and had a few bites, we had no takers so we made a run around to Tiger Island.  Here the two fished between the logs and eventually both picked up some nice, fat Seatrout.  We ran through Tiger Basin over to Bell River and set up behind a large flooded oyster bed and this did the trick.  Both anglers began to get hookups, landing a handful of Seatrout and then a few hard fighting Redfish.  When the bite slowed we hit one more spot, a small grass patch back at Lanceford Creek.  Mike picked up another Redfish and John battled an even larger Redfish but it was not to be.  The big fish got big for a reason and new all the tricks, it roiled to the surface then burrowed it's nose down in the oysters and cut itself off!  But we had a great time and even though the skies stayed overcast, it was another great day to be fishing Amelia Island waters!