getting itchy for fall, report by Alexi

     I realize that last week I had no fish pictures, so this week I decided to try to photograph every fish that I caught.
    I missed a couple of fluke pictures because I had to release them quickly.  (When your drifting towards a boat or the shore or out the inlet to the ocean, sometimes the picture loses priority.)
     The bluefish were on crack cocaine, (If you've ever caught a 20" bluefish from a kayak you know what I mean) so I couldn't get them to sit still for a picture until after they were out of the frying pan.
    And the bass, well I realize now that had I been using a bass assassin at all I could have caught a million of them, but instead just had one appear for a quick psychedelic summer meeting at the side of my kayak.
    All I missed for my slam was the elusive weakfish, which I am confident now I will never catch.  However, technically I also caught about a 4" blackfish while trying to no avail to catch snappers for bait.  Does that count for anything?????



    My thoughts this week while fishing were mostly about how the fall can't come soon enough.  The fish are just plain bigger in the fall.  (Grumble grumble grumble)    My goal, as is probably true of most fisherman, is to find patterns that are reliable.  It seems, however, that like a growing child, each week at the sedges is a different story.  But once I have several years of records about specific spots, then watch out fish!!!!  Then I can adjust and tweak my tools to where it's like shooting fish in a barrel.  But would that really be fun?   Shooting fish in a barrel?  I mean, what is the point of that?  Anyway, lets not get too philosophical about this endeavor.  I went fishing.  I caught some fish.  Here are some pictures....

All of the fluke were around 15"  the bass was about about 20, and the blues were one to two pounds.

The Bluefish / aka crab-bait/ aka my lunch 

Land Fluke

Fluke 1

Striper

Fluke