A fish that didn't get the "You can't swim here if you're over 27 inches" memo

Made it out to "the" spot just as the sky was getting color, but it seems I was there before the fish woke up. As I've observed before, before you can really see your popper well, fish may swirl at it, but not actually hit it. It took until full visible light for the hits to start, but even then the action was slower than the more recent trips to this spot. Now I'm wondering if there's also a tidal consideration and this spot is more of a late ebb one. Tough to gauge in that there is no significant current in this spot. AAMOF, there's no way you'd choose to fish here unless someone told you, "Read my lips, FISH THERE!!", which a friend did to me.



Fishing ended at the 06:00 alarm as usual. I finished with 4 fish from 20 - 28". Grilled stripah on the menu tonight!!