Let The Wind Blow

We cancelled yesterday's trips, morning and afternoon, due to the foul weather. It was cold, windy, and rainy and none of us wanted to be out there. But today was forecasted to be clear, sunny, and even a bit warmer with the only drawback, a big one, the wind would be blowing 14-18mph which would make for some tough fishing.

But Mike Petro and his fishing buddies were game so we met down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and made our first stop over at the Longpointe docks to take advantage of the land
mass blocking the stiff NE wind.  The two anglers up on the bow were tossing jigs and live shrimp up to the pilings while two were drifting traditional trout rigs - slip floats fished deep and it was Mitch who knocked the skunk off when his float disappeared with a vengeance, Fish On!  Mitch worked to the boat and landed a nice keeper sized Seatrout.  Jay followed that up with one of his own, fishing the slip float with a shrimp down deep.





We then made a run up the Nassau River and

stopped at Spanish Drop for a brief period while we tossed jigs and shrimp to the exposed oysters on the very last of an incoming tide, then we moved on up the river to some docks at Seymore's Pointe. Here, Mike got the hot rod when he hooked up, battled, and experlty landed a big Black "puppy" Drum.  He then hooked up and landed a keeper sized Trout, then followed that up with a keeper sized Weakfish.  We had a couple of small Red's and Trout along that stretch, too.



After making the run down to Broward Island to take advantage of the first of an incoming tide, we found that the 18mph NE wind and the incoming tide were just too much for comfortable fishing so we came back to the shelter of Nassauville and went back to drifting shrimp deep under a float - to no avail. But we moved up a ways, found a little cove and pitched jigs with the shrimp and minnows. Mike, Jay and Mitch both found some feisty Redfish then Tim got hot and reeled in an "almost legal" 9-spot  Redfish then he landed the biggest Seatrout of the day, one that measured 19.5".  And with that, we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.