Making It Work

 For those of you that follow this "report", we've had some cranky weather all month - a 'Nor Easter earlyin the month that really blew and for the last few weeks a lot of wind to deal with. On top of that we haven't had any real cold spells so the water temperature as of today was right at 77 degrees up on Lanceford Creek. We're picking up a handful of 14" Seatrout here and there and once in a while a "keeper" fish.

Today I fished with Robert Stetner and his buddy Doug when I picked them up out at the Oyster Bay Marina. We had some clouds in the sky, a sprinkle now and then and a breeze that picked up as the morning went along. Not an ideal weather day but these guys were ready to fish!  While we were in Soap Creek we fished a large marsh run out and quickly knocked the skunk off when Doug put a couple of Seatrout in the boat.

We moved around and fished a spot up Lanceford Creek to no avail, then came back towards Fernandina and fished a grass patch surrounded by submerged oysters. Robert went to the bank with

his first cast and almost immediately his float disappeared and he had a nice hookup. He landed a keeper sized Seatrout. Doug fished the grass patch, letting his float and live shrimp drift up next to it. We both saw the float slowly ease under the surface and Doug had a hookup This fish put up more of a fight than the earlier Trout and sure enough it turned out to be a feisty Redfish. 

After a 10 minute run up the Bell River we fished some dock pilings with jigs and shrimp. Doug put a few Seatrout in the boat, fishing off the bow, while Robert found a feisty Sheepshead and a Trout off the stern. We then buzzed around to the Jolley River and fished Snook Creek and here Robert found the first and only Slot Redfish of the day. 

We had been fishing in a steadily increasing wind and these two anglers were making it work. After fishing briefly on the outside of Tiger for a chance Flounder, we ducked in to behind Tiger and fished the logs. We were out of the wind, the sun was out, but the fish weren't biting! So we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.