Pouring Rain Can't Stop These Anglers

Milton Harsh and his longtime friend Hayden were in town and set up a back country fishing trip on The Anglers Mark Friday morning.  The tide had been coming in for a couple of hours so we headed up to Broward Island to fish the still exposed logs and stumps with live shrimp on jigs.  The anglers got unlimbered and were working the bank with the jigs, slowly bumping them back.  Just as they had a good flurry of hookups with  feisty Reds and hungry Trout, the bottom fell out and we all three were soaked to the bone.  I found out that my waterproof captain's bag really isn't waterproof! But these guys were game and we continued to fish until we realized that the heavy rain was washing mud into our fishing zone and the bite had come to an abrupt stop!  We cranked the big engine and headed back to the Horsehead area to fish Bubblegum Reef, but had no bites there.  I trolled through Jackstaff where they picked up a nice keeper Trout on a Temptation Bait grub and later they added a hungry Flounder caught on a mud minnow, finalizing an Amelia Island Backcountry Slam.  With that, we called it a day, another great one to be on the water!