Saturday, June 11, 2016

"How's your Spring been?" By Alexi

It's technically still spring.

"How's your spring been?"

Hmmm, "A lot of exploring."  I say.

That's another way of saying it's been slow.  (Except for the epic blue-fish bite)

So:

I went out with Nick to a new area last week.   Exploring, trying to suss out a new possible camp-site in Southern New Jersey.  The Island we were looking at was owner occupied, so we stayed away.

Cormorants.



The first thing I couldn't help but notice when I was approaching the proposed possible camping area was a flock of not-so-happy Cormorants.  I would not say that they are a pretty bird.  The only grace they have is when diving, otherwise their flight is erratic.  A sea of black, awkward in flight, squaking birds doesn't make for a pleasant potential campsite.


Hidden in this grass is thousands of killies

Next were the Herring Gulls, they make a god-awful noise.

possibly Herring Gulls

And, mixed in with everyone else was the Great Egret.  This island was FULL of nesting birds, and though I think we could have squared off with them and squatted on their land, we decided to wait until later in the year when their nesting is done.

Looks Fishy 


I managed to pull two 20" bass from the banks.  One on topwater, one on a weedless bass assassin.
There are no pictures of these fish, so you'll just have to believe me.  

Slowly but surely I think I'll end up fishing every estuary from Cape May to Barnegat Inlet.  This trip fills in another little piece to that puzzle.  

When considering how my spring has been, I ask myself, how often did I target large bass?  I only fished with eels in the back once or twice, and only surf-launched once and there were no bunker to be seen.  Am I just a shitty fisherman?  Have I resigned to picking up trash around the Sod-banks? What happened to "fishing in the dark?" 

 While the blue-fish were a welcome diversion, I wonder if my game has been thrown off by them.  But, then I remind myself, it's technically still spring....


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