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Hit the last of the incoming. 45 minutes with no action, nothing to see. some swells for the surfers, no weed and despite the damn west wind that arrived just as I did this afternoon, very little sweep. I really should have brought my ten and not the 9' Lami again though. All of a sudden the gulls were going cray in the whitewater. Joined a young guy as we fast walked to the fray. Got another wind knot just after beaching a feisty cocktail. (Had started to defrost a weak this morning so the cocktail will provide a dinner another night.) 40 minutes later beached a schoolie, despite hoping it was another cocktail. Both spit up either a small sand eel or a skinny spearing. Didn't bother to examine it too closely. Don't you love it when the fish are just 30 yards out and you can see the patches of darker water !
 
sorry, I usually post that as well. Since I was unable to use any of the lighter lures due to the north wind changing westerly, I went with a 1 oz old Kastmaster with a 4/0 bucktail dressed teaser hook in front of it. I tried a bucktail with the teaser but no hits on it so switched to a tin. I have yet to catch anything from the surf on a plug or a bucktail, sad to say, just on teaser hooks, or tins, or on the occasional weighted rubber shad. The schoolie took the Kastmaster, the cocktail the teaser. Wasn't going to fish Saturday (a party on Sunday) but after seeing those birds today, might go again tomorrow.
 
I just love glorious early fall days like this one. Forecast next week has you getting your wish. I'll be assembling Trex furniture or hitting the DVR. My days of fishing in the rain were eliminated over ten years ago upon retirement.
 
(Cellfish evidently prefers nasty weather.) I don't get wet unless someone is paying me and pensions for ten years don't count. Today with Sam's swells and a stiff west wind, fishing was tough and not a hit, but it beat watching the boob tube. If the furniture had been delivered I would have been assembling it as I knew between the wind and the swells it would be a tough go, but it was another gorgeous day on the ocean shore in sandals and shorts and did not want to pass it up regardless.
 
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