Wind Blown Fishing

We knew that today the wind would be a challenge and boy was it! I had met Jim Merkey and his sons Justin and Derrick up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and even though the water looked fairly nice, I knew that the wind blowing out of the North East was being blocked by Amelia Island. Once we headed north from the ramp and got beyond the tip of the island, it hit us!  But we got turned west and made the run to Tiger Island where we had some fairly pleasant fish - but the fish didn't cooperate!  These anglers were making excellent casts but all we were getting were "baitstealers".

After making the run thru Tiger, back thru Bell and down Lanceford, we fished some docks exposed to the wind, but it paid off with, finally, some action.  All three anglers caught a handful of Seatrout and Jim dueled with a feisty Redfish. We fished further up Lanceford and picked some "Brookie" sized Trout and Ladyfish, then we made the long run around to Piney Island to get out of the wind. But it did no good- there were no fish to be found.

Our final stop was back at Bell River, fishing a flooding grass point and again, we found a couple of small Seatrout. The wind was really, really kicking  now so we called it day. The sun was out, folks on land probably thought it was a beautiful day, so we counted it as another good one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.