Jaymann's Blog – April 2007 Archive (5)

Monday, April 30, 2007:

Winds gone wild – flashing all around. I’m not sure what the wind forecast was for today but we just hit over SSW 40 mph…

The wind got way testy today, especially late day when the gusts turned on accompanied by some odd showers with isolated bolts of lightning, mainly mainland.

I was deep woodsing it in search of vernal ponds to record for state studies. It would be sunny one minute, rainy the next, sunny the next. Kinda weird.

Bird life is in full swing. I’m pretty good ID’ing the likes…

Let’s see, I think it was Irish band Thin Lizzie, something like 1976, hit the top of the charts with “The Blues Are Back in Town,” a worldwide smash.

Ok, so maybe I’m not totally versed in pop rock, being a life-long heavy metal aficionado, going back to the Black Sabbath and the rowdier Jimi riffs.

Be it “boys” or “blues,” I know the “back in town” part is correct since a fully reliable source had 4-pound blues today, while fishing in a weakfish hole that hadn’t even been…

Friday, April 27, 2007:

Obviously quit spitty out there. However, here on LBI we haven’t had nearly the downpourage of folks just to the north where rain is coming down in five-gallon buckets-worth. It has actually bee fishable out there and a few folks have been on the surfside of things. Not much to show, though bass are being caught. The surf stripers are common enough that it’s…

Thursday, April 26, 2007:

Not a perfect day, sky-wise, but it wasn’t bad for fishing. I’ve gotten word of stripers in the surf – and not there, also. Per usual, it’s right place/right time and in come as many as half a dozen bass – to keeper size, every six fish or so. Clams working on bass at many locales. The oddest clam success was some night…