Well, the spinner sharks are still in the area, much to my delight. It was 3/26/02 when they pulled their mass evacuation last year and every one of about ten thousand sharks disappeared in twenty-four hours. A very impressive coordinated effort that hasn’t happened just yet. I don’t have a clue what the trigger is that causes them to high tail it out of here, and I don’t think I want to know. It’ll just depress me that the spectacular sport these things provide is coming to an end for the year. The cold front that is currently blasting through my neighborhood,(winds are over 20 knots sustained with gusts over thirty) may just find the spinners gone when it is done later this week. We’ll see. Our weather has been so good from a fishing standpoint this winter, that a good wind storm was inevitable, and probably needed, in coming. And there’s still hordes of bluefish around, this will easily be the best bluefish winter ever here in Palm Beach. I’m sure we crossed the fifteen hundred mark on landed fish for the blue chompers. And the pods of big jack crevalle are making their appearance right on que. The next month or two will give us shots at jacks in the fifteen to forty pound range. But the consolation is that it looks like we might be having an “overlap year” on species arrival. Generally, it’s not a surprise to find the winter fish leave and there be a slight lull in the action for a week or two be fore water temps and whatever it is that causes the arrival of the kings, dolphin, false albacore and the tarpon and snook to wake up enough to start feeding,(same thing happens in the fall). But with the exception of snook, we have caught all of those species in the last week or two. One really neat thing was finding albies running around in the surf, from seven feet of water out to about twenty. Not huge fish, they were about four to seven pounds, but there was no shortage of them. We were able to target them on ridiculously small gear, getting all the way down to five weights. And a six or seven pound albie on a five weight is pretty much out of control. Great fun. Also had some running around weather last week to get out and find some dolphin, and though the ones we found were not large at all, again fine light tackle fare with fish in the three to five pound range. Well, with what looks like a “wind delay” for at least a day or two, I think I’ll take advantage and start pumping out albie and dolphin flies as fast as I can…