The Winds Of March

The winds of March make it tough to handle light weight lines and light lures.

This afternoon my wife, our wonder dog Elmo and yours truly went out to try our luck at several locations on the Indian River.

The first area we hit was the unimproved shallow water boat launch at Fish Camp 72 at the end of Jones Road in Mims.



The wind was whipping up enough to make life miserable casting but a few well placed casts with a D.O.A. CAL jerkbait in the deeper areas around the launch yielded a couple of slot sized sea trout.

A dilapidated old bi-hull houseboat that ran aground a few storms ago, drifted closer to the bank and provided structure for the sea trout.

Because I haven't been in the area for a while, I took a few shots with my Nikon and moved on to scout some other promising spots.

Karen and I were thinking about taking our Maverick flats boat out next weekend to fish the northern flats of the river, so we drove up to the Scotsmoor boat launch to see if the water level was high enough to launch our boat.

As you can see by the pics, there is enough water from the rains this week to let us launch without any problem. The narrow channel heading out to the main river looked just fine depth wise.

I took some shots of the area and talked to some guys who were netting mullet for bait to see what was happening.

According to them, the redfish were biting well and the larger sea trout were just starting to get active.

I didn't bother trying to cast into the heavy wind and because we were hungry and it was late in the afternoon, we headed for the local subway shop and then home.

When we got home and finished eating our Italian subs, we saw on the television that a "super secret" satellite was being launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station; so I got my camera and went out to the back yard to get this video.



Hopefully the winds of March will subside tomorrow so I can get a little bit more fishing in.

Till then,
Tight Lines!