to do some fishing and filming. Saturday we fished around Palm Coast and St. Augustine under near perfect conditions. Wind was down, sun was out, and the tide was coming in. However, the 80 degree weather 
in mid-January has the schools of reds confused and spread out. We did some searching and only found some spooky reds here and there. After some blind casting around some oyster beds I did hook into a slot size redfish that apparently liked the Kwan type fly I was throwing.We did some more searching and running around to no avail. We did see some tailing sheepshead along some oyster bars and had some follow our flies, but none were interested enough in eating. We called it a day an hour or so before sunset and went in to rest up for an early next morning.
Sunday we awoke in the morning darkness, hitched up Chris' Hell's Bay skiff, and headed south on I-95 to
Titusville - where we had planned to shoot some video on the flats of the Indian River. We were hoping that a school of big breeder reds would be willing to entertain us without getting too camera shy. As we ran across the lagoon from the west shore, the sun was rising in the East, revealing the mirror like surface of the water before us. We did find the fish, and they were willing and hungry, but the wind conditions had other plans for the day. We managed one big red in the neighborhood of 20-25 lbs and 40 or so inches long, but about 10:30 the wind picked up pretty good and took with it our chances of getting some tailing footage of these massive fish.
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