Yes, me and a couple mates went out today. Just before out going tide. Caught nothing. Between the 5 of us. We spent well over 800.00. Gas up was 355.00. bait, green crabs, spots. Rigs ect was a bad day.
The bait places do not lower their gas prices. Gas for our hogs are 2.47 per gallon. Well down from the 3.95 last year. We are trying again Monday. just for stripers. Today the tide was way high. It was Well over the floating docks limited. The wind picked up around 1400 hrs. From there it just got worst.
We peeled off the skin or most of the skin from our Kentucky fried chicken. We each had our own (buckets). We were pretty far out but not far enough for those rats with wings. They were deep diving for the skin before it sank. I'm pretty sure it was a shark. It damn near swallow most of the flock of birds that were floating and diving for the chicken skin. I'm sure the smell of the chicken and fat brought sharks to the area. I didn't know they would bum rush a flock of birds. But it was wild to see.
HAHAHA! I have seen a shark eat a gull on a guide trip while in a kayak and threw out a piece of mullet that had been torn to shreds by crabs. The bull shark was damn near as long as my kayak and hung around which meant we were not catching any fish. Also it was suprisingly not violent at all. One minute the bird was swallowing the mullet, the next there was a big swirl and the bird was gone.