Silver lining

When it’s calm before the rain (and no swell) I start to feel fishy. Got out on the sand for 2 hours before the end of day to check a hali hole – it looked clear but a bit shallow with fair salad. With every cast without action I kept asking myself: is it lack of bait? Blank cast. Is the tide too low? Blank cast. Is the temp too low? And so on.

After I had all the questions and no answers from fish I jumped in a car and start driving back with ultimate question: Am I getting skunked today?

I did not plan to do it but stopped in a small bay and immediately noticed fish jumping: big and small. So, I walk out there and I have seen them before in big schools like that – the stripers of a ‘different’ kind that never take bait but I needed to take a closer look at them. LC with 3 freshly placed trebles did the job: I get snags on every cast and eventual land a couple of very chunky mullet.

Decided to check another little bay that was a lot murkier after runoff (more trash than normal too) and got slammed with bodybuilder BSP near rocks a couple times but managed to release them without walking to beach and on the next cast get a mullet that fights even harder than previously. But when emerged from murky water it turned out a nice corbina. That place was loaded with fish, but after I looked at my phone I realize it’s time to leave and to pick up my daughter. I’ll be thinking about visiting this spot when we get break from rains..
Have fun out there!