If I wait around here long enough some minners will come along to eat all these little amphipods or crab larvae that are making the water look grainy and sparkly...
If I were fishing a spot like that, lets say from a kayak, I
would try to approach an area like that stealthaly so as not to spook them then fish a live eel close to the bottom and adjust my trolling speed and weight accordingly. A florcarbon leader might help in such clear water, I don't know that for a fact.
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.
They where really thinking why is this guy watching me I really gotta go but can go while some one is watching and the other one is telling him just go for it he wont notice
could they be herding bait and these are the outer ring sentries
while a sheet load of schoolies(out of frame) are forcing them closer to the shore and mawing-down as the front line of attack? these bigger fish could be looking to corral/prey upon any bait that tries to make a run for it.
one of my first blitzes 5yrs ago was not unlike this, on a much smaller scale, off of Deer Island. little guys tight to the shore beaching bait, and engulfing wild eye storm shads ~~~while the bigger swirls were just out of reach of me white Wally World Shakespeare noob stick
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