Goose farts aside, my original question was how can I determine if or not it is foggy at Cape Fair before I leave home?
Yesterday dew point and humidity were the same. There should have been fog but there wasn’t.
I mostly fish Cape Fair this time of year. Lots of times it is too foggy to see how to safely motor. Researching fog it is supposed to develop when the temperature and dew point are within 4° of each other. They are the same at my house right now and it is clear. Cape Fair shows both the same but I bet fog is thicker than pea soup down there.
Do any of you have an idea for determining foggy conditions when you aren’t physical there?
I didn’t do well. I couldn’t get anything to work. I found lots of fish 60 to 80’ deep but only managed 1 white. I fished the Arig in the wind for a while but my observer got cold so I put out the fire and called the dogs.
It was a long swim from Aunt’s Creek. I fished from Cape up the James almost all the way to Carr’s. The bite was different yesterday. It almost felt like a crappie. I plan to go back Thursday to see if there is a chance of a pattern as my normal shaky and tube presentations were shunned by those scaly critters.
Put what credence you want where you want. When I was a kid, one of my brothers came home talking of seeing a “black panther” while squirrel hunting. We made fun of him. Later that week he, my older brother and I were together and saw it. It had the body shape of a cougar with a long tail and was black as coal. That was before exotic animals were kept by people in Barry County.
Everything is homemade. The head is fiberglass. The jigs are 1/8 oz football heads on 4/0 hooks with weedguard for Table Rock and the baits are hand poured flukes. So it really isn’t all that heavy but 5 hours chunking it wore me slick.
The bite was slow. I tried skaky, jigs, tubes, and Ned without so much as a nudge. I drug out an Arig and did 5 hours of chunk and wind. I had 5 bites and boated all of them. Only 3 were keepers but they were nice ones.