Spike is now disappearing into the same rising and falling swells that have had their way with my inner ear, making a drunk of me walking on the deck. I lunge and land, grabbing tight to the railing of the stairway leading to the cockpit, feeling the push and pull of the waves gravity. Others walk freely. The Captain Hook crew cringes and try to ignore the heaving. School is off for me, at least for the morning, but I find interest in watching Spike work structure for holding fish.
Structure is essentially all the features that make up the physical environment.
It is the terrain, vegetation, current, depth, and layers of water temperatures that provide diversity in habitat. Finding fish near something like a kelp forest, rocks, changes in the floor, or those milky-green lines off shore, is what Spike considers the first given in fishing. Cast everywhere in and around structure and you re either going to catch fish or move on. The second given is that there is going to be a morning bite. Fish gotta eat.