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Have you seen this striper behavior before?
I was fishing a north shore beach yesterday afternoon, walked over the dunes with a west wind of some sort blowing - typical fall pattern, wind blows the bait offshore and big pods of fish chasing bait way offshore, lots of birds and several boats on them. Could see the small splashes, but too far to see exactly what without binoculars.
... while I was watch several schools way offshore, hoping/praying that one would get forced in shore straight to me ... I noticed some big splashes on an outer bar - again too far to reach from shore (high tide too, but could tell the wave patterns it was the bar) ...
... as I watched for the big splashes, I saw it was big, big bass leaping into the air and then splashing down on their sides ... kind of like how a big whale breaches and makes the big splashes for the boats ...
... there were no splashes of bait ... I thought for a while that possibly a seal could be chasing, but no commotion after the fish would land, rather they were calmly leaping completely out of the water and lazily splashing down ...
... the fish were too to far to reach with the rod, but these were big bass and I was surprised that none of the boats following the pods of busting fish further offshore noticed the splashing bass ...
... very cool and a good sign to see the big fish around.
Thoughts?
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