just shorts and a question

[pequa1]

did get a small kingfish this morning and will grill it with the rest of the small weak from Wednesday and a remaining fluke filet in the frig. 3 shorts too but it was s l o w. Ougoing, west wind so drifting in my area was "diagonal." Hardly any weed at all.
Question: terns were successfully diving and catching long, skinny whatevers. approximately 8" long or longer and not much thicker than a soda straw. While they were swallowing them like one does spaghetti, the end still out was curling like toes during, well, you know... What could they be ?

 

[Snapprhead27]

Needlefish?

 

[pequa1]

I hadn't thought of them, but something was chasing the clouds of inch long silversides along the docks and bulkheads. Can needlefish curl their tails to almost touch their gills ?

 

[Snapprhead27]

I hadn't thought of them, but something was chasing the clouds of inch long silversides along the docks and bulkheads. Can needlefish curl their tails to almost touch their gills ?

Not sure.

 

[Hunter704]

I hadn't thought of them, but something was chasing the clouds of inch long silversides along the docks and bulkheads. Can needlefish curl their tails to almost touch their gills ?

Snapprhead has the same guess as me needlefish

 

[pequa1]

Terns certainly weren't afraid of them.

 

[Pangaroo]

did get a small kingfish this morning and will grill it with the rest of the small weak from Wednesday and a remaining fluke filet in the frig. 3 shorts too but it was s l o w. Ougoing, west wind so drifting in my area was "diagonal." Hardly any weed at all.
Question: terns were successfully diving and catching long, skinny whatevers. approximately 8" long or longer and not much thicker than a soda straw. While they were swallowing them like one does spaghetti, the end still out was curling like toes during, well, you know... What could they be ?

I was out yesterday also and fished in Jones Inlet . Caught 1 short Fluke . My Engine went into Safe Mode in the Inlet and I spent most of my time limping back to Wantagh Park with the Incoming Tide. On the way back I saw a lot of Birds diving on the East Side of the Fundy Bridge. Fluking is dead slow inside Jones Inlet this year. I speak to the same guy at the ramp nearly every time I launch there and he said it's been a slow Fluke season so far. I'm going out to Peconic for some real action either this week or next week. Might even start trolling for Bonita/False Albies and Spanish Macks a mile or two off the beach.