Who Got Bit More?

We had a nice day for fishing forecasted today...light winds, slightly overcast and a high and falling tide.  I met Steve and Jake Schmidt down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early and when the No-Seeums swarmed us I thought for sure after running up the intercoastal we'd get into a breeze and they wouldn't be a problem. Nope. They swarmed us. But these two anglers were game and began tossing float rigs with live shrimp to the marsh line. We had a couple of bites here and there but no real takers so we moved on, running thru Horsehead over to Seymore's Pointe.

Not but a minute after we dropped the trolling motor, and after the gnats swarmed, Steve had his float disappear and, Fish On!  He reeled it to the boat and landed a hungry Seatrout - skunk off the boat! We picked up another Trout in the same spot, bounced down a dock, and got another couple of fish, one of which was of keeper size. But the gnats were biting more than the fish so we pulled up and buzzed down to the Spanish Drop area, thinking that once we were out in the river there would be a breeze, but no, once again the weather forecaster was wrong again - no breeze but plenty of sand gnats!  But we did pick up a Trout or two along that stretch.

Finally, the breeze did pick up so we ran back to Seymore's Pointe and began fishing jigs, float rigs, and slip float rigs. Jake had already caught a Trout on my standard float rig but then he drifted the slip float deeper and had a strong hookup. He played it perfectly to the boat and landed another keeper sized Seatrout.  And, we had some comfortable fishing there at the end, so we counted it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.