I fished and fished and fished but didn't catch . . .
 

. . . anything this weekend and what a great weekend it was. Weather was nice, no one on the water, replaced a bunch of things on the trailer, rollers and u-bolts, calm seas, everything but the fish. We soaked clams and mackerel and squid, jigged jiggs, the moved inshore and in the tidal rivers and drifted flounder and even pulled mussels off the bridge for chum and to put on the hook, all to no avail. Tossed every tiny schoolie lure in every fishy spot/warm water outflow, nothing. Am I defeated?, no, no way. I tried, I know I was the only boat on the inshore ledges although we did see two on a pier fishing later on Sunday, but it is sort of early even by my standards. Still feels so good to get out every day that it is nice out. It surely won't be long now.

i snuck out last week and was rewarded w/ a 7" cod for my trouble

It might be early, it may be that there are just not as many fish or ANY fish. I tried anyway. I did ok this past fall as I was fishing all these new areas and never got skunked once from October till the last weekend in November and all with no FF/GPS, I'm still old school or poor-school so still no system, this week I might order a new GPS/FF system to aid in the capturing of all the rest of the fish in the sea. I guess there is such a thing as the water being too cold or being in the wrong places this time of year. 7" though? I would probably have been happy with that.