Wind? What Wind?

 Yesterday was a beautiful morning with that front of storms bringing in clear and colder weather. But thewind was forecasted to begin at 8mph and increasing to 16mph so we made a plan and stuck with it, and it paid off!  I had met Todd Johnson and his longtime friend Todd "Raleigh" Durham up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early on a tide that was low but still going out. We skipped around to Eagans Creek and set up current from some dock pilings. Todd had gone up under a floating dock with his jig and live shrimp and we both saw his line start moving towards shore. Todd tightened up and gave his rod a firm "hookset" and, Big Fish On!  He played it patiently and soon brought to the boat a big, multi-spotted Slot Redfish - a great way to start the day. We picked up a couple of more smaller Reds there then Raleigh hooked up and landed a keeper sized Seatrout. 

After moving up a dock or two the two anglers got busy catching fish. We were out of the wind and it really made for a good day for two old friends to get together and catch up. Raleigh seemed to be tuned in to the Seatrout bite while  Todd stayed with the Redfish. They added a couple of more keeper fish to the box. They also caught a handful of small Sheepshead.

As we headed out and got into the river we could tell that the wind forecast was right! I had decided to head south to get out of the wind down at Seymores Pointe but we made a "pit" stop along the way, fished some rocks, and got into some fish! Raleigh found a "honey hole" and caught one Trout after another. Todd picked up a couple of Reds and a couple of Trout, before we moved on. 

We made it down to Seymore's Pointe, again out of the wind. The duo picked up a couple of more Trout and a keeper sized Sheepshead. We moved around to the Nassauville rocks, fished Littlefield Creek, and again, a couple of more Seatrout were caught. As we headed back north, bucking the WNW wind, we knew that it had been a great day for two old old friends to get together and fish here at Amelia Island, Florida.