I thought that I had it timed pretty well, but I forgot about the run-off from all the rain we had earlier and the big minus super moon tides that we're having today. Both combined to dirty up the water and deposit lots of grass, weeds and other assorted sea junk in the water. Some fish were relating to the "mats" in deeper water. I tried pulling some stripers out of there, but they wouldn't bite for me. I needed a punching rod.
The flats have changed quite a bit since I was out last year. There's more sand for one thing. And places where there used to be a cut have all filled in. I couldn't even get out to where I wanted to fish at dead low, I had to take the long way around and stick to the channel. Used some deep water to pick my way past the breakers and tooled around in deep(er) water for a while. Not much going on except a harbor seal started to follow me around. Awesome.
Once the incoming started pumping, I got up onto the flats and as soon as there was 1'-2' of water - the fish showed up! The dirty water slowed things down a bit, but I found a good group of fish and just hung in a back eddy for a while and caught a bunch. No birds working - just some fish grubbing up sand eels. I had 1 big girl about 20 lbs follow my lure and turn about 10' from the kayak. All the rest were schoolies on a 1/4 oz strike king flats jighead and zoom super fluke jr. (white).
Going to the Cape for 10 days next week! Can't wait!
Here's some pics...
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