Almost caught up—here are some highlights from the last two weeks of August:
I didn't have a very good snapper (young Bluefish) season. Normal patterns in my area have the snappers running an hour before high tide to an hour after high tide. This season, they only followed the pattern if high tide was in the evening. I had family obligations and was only able to fish during the day, so I only caught a few. Oddly enough, I didn't catch any with the popular topwater "snapper popper" setup, or my trusty 1/4 ounce sliver shiny Kastmsters. I caught these "schoolless" fish while targeting Blowfish with my double-fluke rig, baited with Squid:
Not all of the porgies that I landed were huge, but they were all keepers - at least 9 inches:
Here are some of the many Blowfish that I caught. Sometime before the weekend is over, I'll post a recipe and pictures in the "Wild Game or Fish" thread, in the "Cooking with Fire," sub-forum:
The local Herring Gulls are dangerous: One day, when I had my back turned, two of them stole two of my fish and started running away. I chased after them with a friend; both of us yelling. To my surprise, they dropped the fish. Had they wanted to, they could have gotten away with the robbery. Here is a funny picture of one of the juvenile (the young one's don't have the pure white coloring of the adults) Gulls eating a fish head that I threw it:
Here is a pretty picture of the body of water I fished in.
