Darren Catching Reds Despite the Wind

The wind has blown from 15 - 35 knots everyday for about 3 weeks and I am sick of it. I had to cancel 3 charters last week. Darren Carlton, a new client from Denver was already in Port O' Connor and only had one day to fish chose to battle the wind on Saturday and go fly-fishing. On Friday I had done a lot of scouting and located 3 flats that were holding good numbers of reds. With the wind gusting to 22 I start the day where I had found a nice pod of tailers the day before. The fish were there but not tailing. Still too early for good visibility and a 20 knot wind at my back we were drifting over the fish and spooking them before we could cast to them. Sunny all morning, the clouds moved in about 10:00 and we lost our vis completely. Our only chance was to find tailing fish. After a 30 minute 12 mile boat-ride we found them. With the tide was just moving in over a flat that would have been too shallow to pole an hour earlier we find redfish tailing in every direction. Darren had 6 reds take the fly, a couple of trout sets, a couple of LDR's, and a couple of nice fish to the boat. These were Darrens first saltwater fish on the fly. He had tried twice before with no luck. His attitude was great and his perseverance paid off. It is now Monday and the wind has no intention of letting up. My trips for Wed. and Thurs. have canceled already. I am really sick of it.