Late Feb Fishing report

Catching up the last handful of trips.  The fish are getting in heavy bunches tight together and getting a little tougher to catch for the striper marks we are getting.  Happens every year late winter seems they are getting into pre spawn mode.  I have not seen any milking on the deck yet.  Seems like one day the fishing is off the hook and then the next a struggle.  Congrats to 75 year old Ken Segner , 73 year old running partner, and Albert for whacking them on the jig.  Still getting it done fellas pretty work.  On the 18th ole Jr and Tom came out of the blocks on "JR" time.  Leaving late was the right call.  It worked out great.  Full moon but the bite was off.  Late in the afternoon the picky biting stripers went off and we whacked them with only Ches still out since everyone went in.  It was cool to see bunches of stripers loping in the little whale bait just subsurface all around the boat.  The small jigs seem to get more bites but staying with the bigger stuff weeded out the dinks and on the am trip on the 19th Congrats to Chris Duval for landing a nice 54lber this morning.  Afternoon the wind was screaming but we picked out a nice catch of fish releasing a few as well.  Back on the war path with Randy on the 21st.  Hard west winds kept us tight to the beach and after we ran past Corolla light we had to swing out to find something.  We also had the cool Nat Geo underwater director film guy that did Blue Planet and all trying to get some striper footage.  He tried one spot diving down to the bottom, but no luck.  When we finally got on a good jigging bite late late, the light was too low.  We did however get him to crank in three trolled fish and he also landed four or five jigging.  So we may have planted the seed for a future jjigger!  Randy got the biggest fish of the day a 35 lber.  I also jigged up five or six myself.  Wish we had more time on em but 24 miles from the inlet we needed to go. Oh yea trawl season opens back up Friday, all I can say is wow! Stripers thanks for trying out we will send you a letter, see ya never!  Better luck next year.