Cold Then Hot Then Cold

This crazy weather just can't make up it's mind! We get a nice warm spell and just when you think Spring has sprung, a front comes thru and we're back to cooler temperatures...like today! But we had clear skies and yesterdays 32mph winds were forecasted to be 10-12 so I met Cas Hans, Rick Mowery and Don Smallwood (a "shared" trip) up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp. The weather dudes were slightly off because it was really ripping out of the north west. I had wanted to fish Tiger Island on the first of an
incoming tide but we thought it'd be too difficult so we made our way around to Egans Creek and fished some nice dock pilings with jigs and live shrimp.

Don "knocked the skunk off" when he hooked and landed a feisty Redfish, then he landed another, then Cas had a big bite, his dragged ripped, and the big fish was in the pilings - to be caught another day.!  But Cas went back in and soon landed a couple of nice Redfish. Both he and Don landed Seatrout - in fact Don seemed to have the "hot hand" most of the morning. 

We worked down the docks, had very few bites, but when we hit an area with some still exposed oysters Don found some more Trout in 6-10' depressions.

Our next stop was over at Bell River where Rick got on the board with a Flounder catch and then a Seatrout catch. The Flounder made it an Amelia Island Back Country Slam for the trio and when we wrapped the day up behind Tiger, Rick landed a Black "puppy" Drum to bump it to a Grande Slam. Rick got hot there at the end and put a good handful of feisty Reds in the boat, and Cas followed suit with a few of his own. The sun was up and had warmed things nicely so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.