Click here to sign up. To subscribe, call 904.829.6586 Order Home Delivery Online Order or renew daily and Sunday home delivery of the Record for one year. I know I speak for at least one fisherman, and probably a lot more, when I say that this wind stuff is getting old. I had sensed it, but it took a small-boat commercial fisherman to confirm the difficulty in completing a full week of work due to the wind. In all the years I ve written this column, I can t recall a windier 18-month period.
Calm days are rarities.
What we like to look for this time of year are still mornings followed by light southeast breezes in the afternoon. The relentless, double-digit easterlies of the last two weeks are more characteristic of October than May. But the east winds have brought in clean, warm water. More consistently, the temperature was in the upper 70s. The Bluewater Tournament had an outstanding bite of billfish.