...For a change I'll not be starting the report off by complaining about the wind. Especially this time of the year the wind is really the determining factor for if we have a good day's fishing or not. The last 3 weeks have been terrible with constant winds in the 20 mph range. Rich from New Jersey was in town and wanted to fish, fly fish only. As luck would have it the forecast was for west wind for only one day that week, and that was the day Rich wanted to go. Fly fishing this time of the year is good if you can get into the ocean, west wind is pretty much what we need and that is exactly what was forecasted. Chum baits were still around too, that combined with the west wind and calming seas had my hopes up. Rich had indicated he wanted to get big fish on fly. The Spinner Sharks aren't here yet in any good numbers yet so the plan was to target the Jack family, specifically Amberjacks & Jack Crevalles. First light we made a low percentage play and threw files at some small resident Tarpon. They were showing themselves but were being less than cooperative. Pretty much what we expected, however they are not a total lost cause, you can still get lucky and catch these fish. Another way you can look at it was that Rich didn't use up any of his fishing luck on the Poons and was banking it for the rest of the day. Once it was light enough to see into the water we left the Tarpon and headed for the chum baits. Not long and we were armed with frisky little silver dinner bell ringers in the livewell and we headed for the ocean. First stop yielded one Kingfish bite off and not much else. Again Rich was saving up his fishing luck. Next stop was AJ central. Amberjacks are also known as Reef Donkeys and Rich was about to find out why. As soon as we pulled up on the spot we began marking fish. Within minutes of the first net full of dinner bell ringer recruits hitting the water we had AJ's on the surface all around the boat, all nice size fish. It wasn't long before Rich had the first AJ hooked up and the battle was on. Crank and lift, huff and puff, repeat, repeat, repeat a few more times and finally the first AJ was on board, photographed and released. That was the first withdrawal from Rich's fishing luck account. Unfortunately you cannot check the balance on your fishing luck account so you never know when its overdraft time. Keeping this in mind we were very happy with this 25 lb AJ and were hoping that Neptune had made a big deposit for Rich. As it turns out Rich must have hit the weekly marine Powerball. As much as we tried to overdraw the account it just didn't seem like we were able to do it. The next AJ was 32 lbs, the third was round 28 lbs, the fourth round 10 lbs and the fifth was 36 lbs. The 32 & 36 lb fish were weighed. Finally the AJ action shut down and it was time to move to the next teller's window. Bluefish were next. Rich made numerous withdrawals here until he could Bluefish no longer. Catching these fish on poppers is an absolute blast. After the Bluefish we looked for something different and got Spanish Mackerel, Lady Fish & Blue Runners. Up to this point Rich had been making his withdrawals with his Visa card and we had not yet seen a Jack Crevalle. We changed to MasterCard which seemed to do the trick. Wasn't long after the switch we found multiple schools of Jack Crevalles finned out on the surface. Rich landed four Jacks, two on poppers and two on sinking flies. After this it was closing time at First Marine Bank, West Palm Beach branch and also time to head back to the dock. Rich must have come really close to totally emptying out his account today. As most fishermen know, unfortunately your account balance doesn't carryover from day to day. From today's activities Rich wouldn't have had much balance to carry over anyway but hopefully for next time Neptune will again be making very generous deposit for Rich.