Crazy Wind

Speaking of unpredictable February weather, yesterday afternoon had something weird happen. I had met Dennis and Barbara Lockard down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp.  We knew that a brief shower was forecast within the hour but we elected to try our luck anyway. The wind was down and we commented on how hot it was when we left the boat ramp and made a straight run to Broward Island. I was thinking we could get in an hour of easy fishing before the rain and wind go to us. But we had no more than dropped the trolling motor when the wind went from 6mph to about 20mph in seconds!  And the temperature seemed to drop 20 degrees. It was
crazy. But these two anglers were here to fish so we worked the bank the best we could with jigs and shrimp but with the wind whipping us around it was very difficult to feel the bottom or a bite.

So we ran back to the protection of Goffinsville and found a stretch where we could fish slip floats with our live shrimp 20' deep and this worked well. Barbara was the first to strike when she hooked and landed a hungry Seatrout. Then both her and Dennis, drifting the traditional trout rig, caught fish.
We tried a couple of areas doing that then moved to the Pointe, still out of the wind, and tried a fixed float up near the rocks. BOOM! Big fish On! Dennis was on  the rod and played it beautifully, working it patiently to the boat and landing a nice 24" Slot Redfish.

We fished those rocks a bit more, then some docks around on the north side for a while, then wrapped up the trip fishing Spanish Drop before calling it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.