Agita Fishing!!

The combination of visiting family, fog and extreme low tides around dawn have crimped by style as of late, and the first item will continue to do so until well into next week, BUT there have been some trips over the past 4 days, with agita being the key word, with the bass providing most of the heart burn. The local fishing has devolved into Whack-A-Mole: Jedi Master Level, that being quick surface blitzes around the harbor, which isn't too big a deal because normally, one can predict some of the blitzes based on structure and when you get into one, every cast produces fishy interest and usually a strike.

Well the Striper Union has conspired to drive all of us locals absolutely nuts by totally ignoring structure and historic patterns for these blitzes, along with added absolute lockjaw during them. Additionally, Mother Nature has sprinkled in extreme fog which makes finding these blitzes not for the hearing impaired, and nixing the option of fishing other areas out of the local estuary.

Regardless, the fishing must continue and over the past 5 days I've gotten out for 3 "quickies" and caught 10 fish, most 23-26", along with a real 19" youngster. Poppers have gotten the lion's share of these, Finn-S totally ignored and SP Minnows usually ignored with 1 exception. There's nothing more infuriating than having 10 consecutive casts that are right in the middle of feeding fish being totally ignored, but that's been SOP this year. Think I'll have to get "the blue bottle" aboard the boat...