This photo reveals sand particles and clumps of weed, moss and kelp. I’ve digitally cleaned the area around the two stripers and left the adjacent water showing the degree of sand that was being kicked up by a building sea.
With a ground swell you get breaking waves on the shoreline that creates an area of strong surge and undertow. Linesiders patrol the edge of the intertidal zone ready to ambush disoriented bait.
Here are a couple of marauding striped bass.
This fish is all fired up (dorsal fin at full salute) and ready to bolt.
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