They Laughed at Us

You've heard the saying, "be careful what you wish for".  After some serious winds (22mph with gusts to 34) I was forced to cancel two trips Saturday, so for today I was glad to see that the wind was down to nothing and expected a beautiful day of fishing. We had that when I met Dennis Brizzi and his fishing buddy Hal O'Dell out at the Goffinsville Park boat ramp. We left the ramp and it was dead calm, motored over to Seymore's Pointe, and set up fishing some docks with jigs and minnows and some "freshly dead" shrimp. We weren't getting any bites EXCEPT the gnats had come out and were swarming us so
we were the ones getting bit!  We all coated  on the bugspray but I could hear the gnats laughing at us!  We toughed it out for a while, then pulled up the trolling motor and headed down to Broward Island and enjoyed a bug free ride.

The tide was still going out but expected to hit bottom within minutes  and the logs were all exposed. Dennis finally knocked the "skunk off" with a Seatrout catch then he followed that up with a nice22" Slot Redfish. He picked up another Trout or two then Hal got in on the action and landed a couple. Hal added a Redfish of his own as we worked down the bank. Again, the gnats ruled the  boat.

We headed up to Pumkin Hill and fished some shallow areas. Hal spotted some movement up in a cove and as we watched you could see a Redfish working the area, throwing a wake. Hale tossed a float rig with mud minnow to the area, let it drift with the slow current and when his float went under, he took up the slack, set the hook, and Fish On!  Hal played the fish expertly and soon landed another Slot Redfish. After fishing Pumkin Hill for a bit, we called it a day, left the gnats still biting, and headed in, counting it as another great day to be out on the water here at Amelia Island, Florida.