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| My latest magazine article is titled, "Summer Storms Light up the Surf". I was living this story in the last two days! |
My latest article in The Fisherman magazine just came out in the August edition. It's titled "Summer Storms Light up the Surf". I've been living this article in the past two days. In the article I write about how summer storminess dramatically improves the surf fishing for stripers. There can be nothing around for days, even weeks, and a cool summer northeaster comes along and bingo, the fishing improves.
That's just what happened in the last few days for me. I was out both yesterday and today fishing some rough water in the northeast winds. In spots where I hadn't caught anything in weeks, the fish appeared in the turbulent white water. I landed good numbers of schoolies up to near slot size using a combination or artificials. Bucktail jigs (alone and off the egg float) and albie snax were the hot lures. Nearly all the fish were taken in pockets of white water close to shore. Note that nothing was showing, no bait, no fish breaking, but they were there. So, there are some fish around if you make an effort to find them. Few fishermen were out trying as I could count the other fishermen I encountered in two days on one hand.
By the way, I really put that Varivas braided line I've been writing about to the test. I pulled some of my fish out of rugged, rocky, weed strewn areas with no problem. It also casted super well into the wind. I was also using the Varivas Fluorocarbon for my leaders and line trailing off my float. It proved to be very tough stuff in the rocks.
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| I landed all schoolies fishing the white water pockets. |
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| My blue Varivas braided line performed super in the rocks and weed. I was also using Varivas fluoro for my leaders. |
