Salt Water Ice Breaker

Got out with a neighbor, Joe M from down the block. He has not been surf fishing much over the past 40 years and hadn't been to Brigantine since he was a kid.

Wind was out of the NE/E and coming off the 51F water... hence it was c o l d out there.

Had a bunch of little hits that didn't amount to anything and one angler down beach pulled in a black drum.

But the "big" news was that I finally broke the s a l t water "ice" (about what my hands felt like in this picture)

It was the smallest striper I had ever caught, no more than about 12" in length ... but ... it's a start :)