Beating the Front

 

I had Virginia and Paul meet me at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp just a bit earlier than we had planned - the weather forecast called for winds going from 7mph to 17mph while we fished! Our first run was over to Lanceford Creek to try and catch the lower of an incoming tide but alas, we must have been too late because we didn't hardly get a nibble on our jigs and shrimp combo tossed to the dock pilings.

But after we moved around Soap Creek Paul found a "honey hole" and was able to toss a float rig up above it, let it drift, and hookup with some hungry Seatrout. We motored back around and further up Lanceford, fished two spots but sure enough, the south wind was beginning to pick up so we moved on.

After easing thru the back cut along Pirates Woods we came backinto the Bell and set up outside some more docks, still pitching the jigs. Virginia got on the board with a nice Trout catch, then Paul had a hookkup. We moved up a dock and caught another one (all of these were in the 13-14 1/2" range).

Some dolphin were feeding in the next slot so we bypassed them, fished a bit, and when the dolphin left, we dropped back. I was somewhat surprised that the dolphin hadn't run the fish out of there but from the first cast we were catching fish, one after the other. At one time we had a "double" hookup with both Paul and Virginia landing fish. It was steady catching for as long as we wanted, but I knew the wind was going to be bad when we got out into open water so we called it a day, another great one to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.