A Halloween Horror Story

Ok, not really. But it was halloween a half hour ago, and now it's November (Slow down fall, I've only just gotten ready for you!). And though Alec Mejias and I had an interesting outing today it was a bit of a horror story, because the ghost of the beastly noreaster that just hammered New England and NY Sunday and Monday is still haunting Long Island Sound. The waters were creepily murky in the dying light, and life that had just been so rich along the shoreline had been sucked away. The seas were also a bit angry as the wind had persisted after the passage of the storm, and though it was slowly dying it was not letting the sea calm down.

Indeed, LIS was a heaving, unyielding, angry monster tonight. Completely unwilling, though we found some spots that had activity, to give up a striped bass. Woooo, spoooooky. Not catching fish is a scary proposition, but luckily there are hickory shad.