We Braved The Weather!

I was awakened a few times last night with thunder, lightening and rain and when the alarm went off at 5:45am the rain was coming down steady. I dressed, made a cup of coffee, then waited for a lull to run to the truck and grab a rain coat. The whole time I was getting the boat unwrapped and rods loaded it rained, so much so that I had to come in and change pants and shoes - they were soaked. But the forecast called for all of that to pass by 7am so I pulled out, headed for the bait shop, then meet Gary Elder and his fishing crew, Karen and Jim down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp.

We ran  up the intercoastal, turned into the Nassau, and made our first stop at Spanish Drop, pitching jigs' and live shrimp to and exposed shell bank. All three anglers were working their baits expertly, but we could tell the water was super muddy from the rain run  off. We moved up a ways, fished a large drainage, then move on. 

Our next stop was up between some docks at Littlefield Creek. I couldn't believe what I was seeing! The creek was pouring out and I commented it looked like one of those streams up in north Georgia. . But the back side of the creek looked good and eventually Gary picked up a nice keeper sized Seatrout. We then ran around Seymore's Pointe and fished some dock pilings. I think it was Gary's first cast and BAM! Big Fish On!  I wished him luck - that big fish was digging deep and staying up in the pilings. Gary was patient as he could be but when you see that line "lock" down, you know what is about to happen, and sure enough, BAP! Big Fish Off! OUCH!

The forecast had called for increasing SW winds but hey hadn't materialized so we made the run down to Broward Island, south, fishing under the Bald Eagles, working the baits up near the logs, and fineally, Karen had a good hookup and landed another, bigger, keeper sized Trout.  And just minutes later, that predicted wind came. It was really blowing so we picked up and ran back to Seymores, fished a few docks, then headed back, counting it as another great day to be fishing here at Amelia Island, Florida