I was striper fishing in the Saint George with a father and his eleven year old son one morning last week. The fishing was pretty good and I had just pulled up to a new spot. Both of them cast toward the ledge and immediately hooked fish, this is going very well from the guides perspective. I walk forward to coach the son in landing his fish and as I look down through the clear green water I see what I think at first is a big striper. Very often a really big striper will stalk a small one that has been caught, I assume sensing that it is distressed and interested in an easy meal.
Saturday morning I had a striper fishing trip on the lower Saint George River in the morning. I have had fish chasing bait to the surface in several places over the last week and Saturday when I pulled up to one of the most likely spot there were two adult eagles sitting in an oak tree. I had seen them the day before, in fact they were right in amongst the gulls working on the bait that the stripers were chasing to the surface. A great addition to any fishing trip but a real treat on the salt water.
The weather has gone from unbearably hot to the most pleasant cool summer days anyone could ask for. The sandpipers have started to gather for their migration on the local mud flats and last week I noticed flocks of cormorants and geese headed south. Over the next few weeks an amazing number of shore birds will gather on the local flats. The young terns are also in the river with their parents eagerly learning how to fish. You can always tell the young ones because they will readily follow a lure or fly.
