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Here is a “surf fishing perspective” to your question. Not knowing the answer to your query is what surf fishing is all about – it’s the aspect that keeps me at this game. I’ve been at it for a long time and I’m smart enough to know that sometimes “they just don’t bite”. We surf fishermen don’t have the luxury of using electronics to prove fish are actually there. I always chuckle to myself when another fisherman tells me that there’s nothing around because he can’t possibly know that for sure. Even though I’m “above water” I’ve observed bass swimming with various bait fish in relative harmony – the bait sensing that the bass were not actively feeding. I’m sure you’ve seen it underwater. Just last fall I was casting one night in what I would call perfect conditions – I fished for 2 hours and it was dead and I couldn’t believe there were no fish around. My curiosity got the best of me so I did something I don’t often do – I shined my neck-light on the live eel I was casting when it was close to my perch. To my amazement the eel was being followed by multiple bass into the 20 lb class on every cast as if they were curious but not interested in feeding. They never even bumped the eel. A novice angler that night would have thought nothing was around.
Not knowing all the answers gives me more incentive to keep learning.
DZ
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