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| Morning has broken... |
I was on the road to an Ocean County beach at 3:30 AM again on Saturday. My dad was fighting a cold and sinus thing, so he stayed in bed. The only thing he missed was the scenery. When I lead with two sunrise pics in a week, you know fishing is slow! I arrived and started fishing around 5 AM. I started by throwing a black SP minnow with a teaser on my 10 footer, but within 60 minutes I went back to the Subaru for my lighter set-up with a smaller plug, hoping for schoolies or even rats. I just had the premonition that it was not going to happen today.
The water was clean and the surf was calm due to a couple
days of NW wind, but there should have been at least short resident fish on
some of the structure I could reach. I
targeted holes and cuts I had scouted when I fished blindly on Thursday. Since it was a Saturday, I had more company
today, with plenty of bait guys set up and buggies running back and forth
hoping for signs of life in the form of birds or bait. I spoke to some guys and watched many others
who came up dry, not even skates. I made
a lot of casts to good structure like the cut below. The fact that I didn’t get a bump would have
been depressing had it not been such a nice day. After sitting on a bench for a relaxing 15
minutes to cool down, and watching gannets dive in the distance and bored dudes
soaking bunker chunks, I was back on the road home before 8:30 AM. I am hoping with a warm future weather
pattern in place for a week or more that I will at least get a shot at
the schoolie run that should be happening soon.
It would be nice to get the old man on some fish too. Trout on Monday morning?? Maybe…
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| The view from the bar. |
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