Post Storm Fishing

 We had some major storms pass thru Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning with lots of rain and high winds then temperatures plunged from the 70's to the low 30's for Sunday morning. I was wondering how that was going to affect the fishing when I met my cousin (I got a lot of cousins) Sally and her husband Tim English up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp for a half day of fishing north.

Unfortunately, even though we had clear skies, the wind forecast had changed from last night today and it was already kicking 12mph with expectations of getting up to 17mph (it did). But we had a plan and headed down river and over to Soap Creek to set up at a large marsh run out and began tossing float rigs and live shrimp to the mouth and let it drift with the current. Sally came with a "hot hand" and began to get bites and knocked the skunk off with a hungry Seatrout catch. She picked up few of those before we eased forward, tried drifting along a shell bed, then moved on. 

After a brief stop at some docks in Lanceford and pitching jigs and shrimp, to no avail, we made the run back and fished some docks at Eagans Creek with slip floats and shrimp. Again, Sally was hot and caught two fishing deep, one of which was of keeper size.

Every time we ran north we had to buck the wind and waves but our next stop behind Tyger was blocked and it was very peaceful. Tim had spotted Sally long enough, made an excellent cast to the bank, let it fall along the bottom and BAM! He had a hookup. Tim played it patiently and worked it to the net to land a nice Slot sized Redfish. We eased along the bank, working it slowly, then headed back, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida.