The Big Stripers are in!
One of the events that I always look forward to during the International Fly Tying Symposium is a fishing trip with Chuck and Ben Furimsky. We run out off Ocean City, NJ, and hunt for stripers and blues. This year, because Nancy and I are moving to the Pacific Northwest, I was unable to attend the Symposium. Of course this was the year that the stripers were, big, big, big. The ocean was filled with huge bunkers and the big stripers were there chowing down on them. Next year, when I can return to the Symposium, the fish will all be small to average—as usual. “Yah, you shoulda been here last year.”
This year, BIG stripers are “average.”