Nothing is happening right now along the oceanfront. Too cold, too windy, wrong wind, cold water. Pick any one or all of the above.
While I've often predicted April 15th as the starting date (give or take a few days) on which the migrating fish arrive, it looks like that is not going to happen this year. Blame it on the unfavorable weather we are experiencing this week. It looks like it will happen a bit later once this crappy weather clears.
The best weather we can wish for to get things going is warm weather with favorable west or southwest winds that warm the water and drive the migrating fish ashore along the oceanfront. The last few days have seen cooler weather with north or northeast winds, the worst possible conditions. The next few days will deteriorate even more with cold and strong east and northeast winds. But, low and behold, better days are coming. All of next week's weather looks very favorable, and if I were a betting man, I would say that we'll be catching big numbers of migrating schoolies and maybe even slot limit keepers a week from now.
It's coming, and it should be big time fishing at the start.
