Soaked to the bone, but we caught fish!

I check the weather report every evening before I make the "call" to my guests and today's forecast had a 50% chance of rain, then falling off. When I got up this morning the forecast only showed a 10% chance of rain - great! I thought!  I met Mark and Jen Woodard and their daughter Lilli down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and we made the run up the intercoastal to dip into Sawpit Creek on a tide that had been going out for a couple of hours. I started the anglers off with float rigs and live s-hrimp but even though they were getting excellent drifts, we had no bites.  When I

switched Jen off to a jig and s-hrimp, Boom!  A hookup. She played it perfectly and brought a nice Seatrout to the boat.  We picked up another fish or two, but with a keen eye to the approaching storm coming off of the Atlantic. The rain hit us and we kept on fishing but when the 20mph+ gusts began to shift the boat around we pulled up and made a run to Goffinsville Park for a pit stop.

After the wind passed we still had rain but we decided to brave it anyway and made the short run down to Broward Island. The tide

was still up fairly high here, not ideal in my book, but we were sheltered from all wind and with our rain jackets still on, began to catch fish. Jen landed the first Jack Crevalle, then all three anglers battled those ferocious fighters. Finally, we began to catch some feisty Redfish, picked up a couple of Mangrove Snapper, a Sheepshead, and tangled with bait stealers and Ladyfish.  We drifted the island for a good bit then made one last run to Spanish Drop.

The oysters were showing and the fish were biting! We were all soaked to the bone but we only had a slight breeze now and even though it was raining, we caught one Redfish after another. Most were in the 13-17" range, but finally, Mark hooked up and expertly landed a nice Slot sized Redfish. Jen followed that up with the biggest Jack catch, then we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.