I looked at the radar and saw passing showers like the forecast called for. Fishweather.com showed diminishing N winds, so I picked a spot in the lee on the northshore and hoped for the best.
As I was driving, I went through a couple of passing showers which seemed to confirm the radar. Nice. Put my kayak in the water and it didn't stop raining until 9 PM when I put my kayak back on the car and drove home. Oh well. Can't catch them on the couch staying dry.
My original plan was to go out and try to jig up some macks. No macks, but I didn't go out very far in case a real storm came through. Plan B was to catch fish on lures and if I couldn't get any keepers, plan C was to visit Tomo's and buy eels. Plan D was to fish for squid. I made it to Plan B.
After peddling around for a while, I found a ton of fish. Only problem is that they were suspended about 10-15' down and in a generally negative feeding mode. About once per hour, they would pop up and beat up some 3" sea herring for about 30 seconds - usually 100 yards away from me. I caught a few schoolies by casting out a magnum super fluke and letting it sink slowly until it was about 10' down. Also got a few more on a 1 oz bucktail swimming it through the school. Tough, tough fishing - but I thought it might be better after dark with eels. I did watch some guys with live macs motor in, drop the macs, and instantly hook up. 1 with a keeper and the other just short. So, bigger fish were around and they should eat eels, too.
On the way back, I ran into another fellow kayak fisherman in another location. As we were chatting about the suspended fish we were marking, a mini-blitz popped up. We each pulled a few fish from the mini-blitz. I got a few on a mini 2oz wood guppy pencil (white) and a zoom magnum super fluke. I think 103yaker was getting his fish on a jumpin minnow. Bait was 3" sea herring.
Here's some pics...
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