Over the past several days the first ninety minutes of the afternoon trips have been pretty quiet, and, today pretty much followed that trend.  We boated a few fish by jigging over fish we’d located on sonar, but, the real show started around 6pm when a mix of terns and gulls started to get “antsy” over patches of water where white bass and hybrid striper were slowly getting in the mood to feed.

From roughly 6p to 7:30p, we encountered non-stop bird action, although it was not all located in one area.   In fact, the birds were quite transient, moving from area to area, although after  90 minutes of observing the birds and catching fish, it became clear that both were primarily concentrated in 3 distinct areas, each ~60-70 yards in diameter.

Once I got the boat over these fish by trolling into them (note I did NOT run into these fish with the outboard), we used jigging, easing, smoking, and casting techniques to seal the deal, although the jigging near bottom was the most consistent of these methods.