Help interpreting what I saw

[goinsfishin]

I've been fishing further south, Deale to Breezy, but I've seen the same lockjaw pattern.......then it suddenly turns ON for about an hour just after the tide/current shift. I've also noticed that quite a few of the fish I've cleaned recently are chock full of Mayworms......I think they are gorging on worms still and then picking tidy morsels for desert from the available bait at the current shift.....makes as much sense as anything..

[morsax]

Glad to see that my thoughts on the situation were pretty much on. Unfortunately the storms drove us away before the bite turned back on. Oh well--there is always next time. Which will be in about 3 weeks after a week in Florida, a week in Delaware and another in Nova Scotia.

Hans

[Spot77]

garlien and I saw the same exact thing on Friday. Lots of baitballs but no fish near them.....then we'd hit a run of a few big fish but couldn't get a bite.

It was exciting to at least know that there's bait out there and fish. Didn't see any birds.

[Fish Nut]

Hans, I was in an area a week or so ago out of Sandy Point the Chumming fleet was going hard in deeper water 30 + In shallower water we found huge bait balls / rock stacked up.
I threw everything at them jig, bait no takers.. Finally went back to the trusted trolling gear with a 15tony and snagged one. Couldn’t get anymore bites after that. The one fish was full of chummed bait & worms .