Scott sent this story about his fishing trip this weekend. When he talks about the rocking sensation in the evening after his trip, I know what he means. Hours later your body seems to be swaying and when you stand your feet seem to what to achieve a better stability. It's a strange sensation. Let's start it like this . . . WINDY!!!!! But, when you get together with friends once a year to go fishing, then you go fishing regardless of the weather and that is what we did. We left Kontiki at 7:15 Saturday morning and slow boated to the entrance of St. Charles, got in the protected water, then ran quickly to a few spots. Using live shrimp we picked up 5 black drum and a 27" red. We caught quite a few fish so the action was steady. The wind was insane. When we started that morning it was probably blowing 15 mph and it just kept rising from there. My bubble box batteries died after while and that was quickly followed by the death of the remaining shrimp. That was soon followed by the fishing success in that spot. I think the bite had actually already slowed by the time the shrimp died but regardless . . . we took this as a sign to move. However; before we left one of our spots a BIG gator swam by. He stopped about 50' from the boat. At first all we saw was his head. It looked big but then the size was confirmed when his tail popped up out of the water some 10" behind him. He would go back under and pop up 25' further down the shore line. Due to the high waves he had to riase his head up out of the water quite a ways so he could see over the waves. This gave us a good view. Beautiful and scary animal. From St Charles we ran to Jay Bird. We thought the shoreline would be protected but the high winds would not let it be. We got the crud beat out of us while drifting several lines across the reef. We picked up two trout there. We left and ran into Carlos in search of better water but no luck; still crazy amount of wind which means big waves and water that looks like chocolate milk. I don't think we even had a bite in Carlos. From there we ran back to Jay Bird on our way home. Nothing there but honestly we didn't have our heart in it by then. We were all tired of taking the beating from the wind and the rocking of the boat. The wind and waves were so constant all day that three of us were experiencing the rocking sensation most of the evening. This is something that you don't usually feel unless you have been offshore in the big waves. Despite the wind we had a great time, brought home 5 black drum, 1 red and 2 trout. We made some good memories and most importantly put our next trip on the calendar. Until next time, Scott.