Spent the early part of the week, fishing my river well after dawn because of the 1st light extreme low tides. It was 1 or 2 fish mornings with few complaints by me because the local fish had finally overcome their cases of lockjaw and were hitting the popper.
Today's bright morning moonlight allowed me to make an easy Zero Dark Thirty Run out of the river to another location up the bay. Dodging trees and lobster traps at 15 kts was easy because of the the extra light. My run was rewarded with 3 fish to 27". Once again there was no pussyfooting around as those 3 fish were the only fish that slapped at my lure. I did have to play "dance the popper around the weeds", for a good chunk of the morning, but taking heart in knowing that tomorrow should be better for that problem based on a closer to mid-ebb fishing start time.
Season's total now up to 284, and there is hope that I'll reach my 300 fish goal, something that I was seriously doubting a week ago...
Today's bright morning moonlight allowed me to make an easy Zero Dark Thirty Run out of the river to another location up the bay. Dodging trees and lobster traps at 15 kts was easy because of the the extra light. My run was rewarded with 3 fish to 27". Once again there was no pussyfooting around as those 3 fish were the only fish that slapped at my lure. I did have to play "dance the popper around the weeds", for a good chunk of the morning, but taking heart in knowing that tomorrow should be better for that problem based on a closer to mid-ebb fishing start time.
Season's total now up to 284, and there is hope that I'll reach my 300 fish goal, something that I was seriously doubting a week ago...
