Mid-March, the striped bass ease ...

Mid-March, the striped bass ease
past Rio in subordination to the chop, the currents that
wrap sand like mist around the bridge
piers. Locals don't mind wind
contrary to the tide, or the heavy
dilacerationed skiffs that fish inside
theirs. Late afternoon they will scratch
a not many keepers from the sandbar
with a pop-ey jig or Rebel
pass rounded shallow. By June the spawned-out
fish will ride downriver again.