I hate being an internet angler but that's what I've become. After spending a few posts making excuses to not fish, due to the cold, or it being over, I was proved wrong. It looked like Sunday Funday down on the cold beaches in Ocean County yesterday.
While I prefer to use my own images for the blog some of them are just too good to let pass by and not post. The above images came off a re-post on the B & N site of Facebook. It shows the action as the bait just blankets the beach with clearings around the anglers walking out onto the bar and where striped bass patrol the bait schools. If I knew who created these aerial drone images I would surely credit them. The photos well done and really illustrate the bait and bass migration.
And just when I talked myself out of fly rod opportunities hats off to Braeden Canfield who fished in the cold and caught his first batch of striped bass on the fly including a 39 inch fish that ate his Flatwing fly. It looks like next week it warms up a bit after this cold snap. With water temps around 50, and bait and fish around, and good fish still on the move, maybe it's not over after all.
