I had just driven on the Race about 8:30 am and all I could see were birds working everywhere!
So I pull over and start casting to the busting bluefish......they were everywhere! Caught about a half- dozen and a small bass and figured I would head up toward Hatches Harbor and have a look. Just about the lighthouse, with the wind blowing...southwest I believe? The surf looked mighty fishy with the incoming tide and the wind blown waves, so I pull over again and figure I would give one of my own plugs a workout! I start throwing a schoolbus yellow, surf howdy knockoff that I made and man....they were all over it!
Schoolie bass mostly and some blues just crushing that plug! (If you get a chance to get one of Bernzys Surf Howdy plugs....DO IT!) The best part was as the plug was swimming through the rolling waves with the sun shining through them.....you could see 4 or 5 bass at a time giving chase to the plug in the waves and then opening up and hitting the plug!!!
It was just a beautiful morning all around.....sunny, warm and the water was like bath water it was so warm! My arms are hanging off from all the fish I caught on that plug.....it has mucho character now! (caught about 30 bass and 10 blues on it!) Also caught some on my own pencil poppers....and Moosenuckle and Sea-Monkey were there and Moosenuckle was beaching fish, bass and blues on a pencil popper I had given him!
Nice to see your wood get a workout!
Great way to spend the day!