❄After work Greenling Patrol and Flounder Coaching

Quick, the stars aligned. It's after work, there's still daylight, and the currents are just right. Well, I wouldn't say just right, but it's quite a phenomenal day. These greenings are coming in super close. Plenty of perch swimming around. And even though, I mean, the current definitely isn't perfect, it's starting to haul pretty quick. It is an amazing day out there with the fish. The more time I spend with these guys, I almost feel like, they start reminding me of little puppies. Little fins, little eyes turning towards you, looking at you. They're super curious. And overall, they're just such beautiful fish. You can tell their eyes are kind of on the side, so definitely prey, but they're facing forward. Little predator. Maybe doing a little bit of prey stuff, but also a predator. Unlike the little poor perch, they're definitely with their eyes on the sides of their head. They don't know anything about being a predator. They're mainly there to just run away from everything. Everything's out there to eat them. But not this guy. This guy's a big predator. Or he thinks he is, anyway. I'll let him continue that. And here's the perch, guys, kind of flying around the current. Really shows, I mean, I think it's going maybe 0.5, 0.8 miles an hour. Everything's kind of vibrating, and you can see they're just swinging through. New model of transportation. Just swing with the current, and never look back. And really, an homage to how fast the current's going. You can see the mist is getting really diagonally pulled as he's going down, and it's okay. Greenlings are still interested. Coming out, checking us out. Having a good time in the area. And this little gentleman just never let us go. Maybe we just didn't let him go. But I still gotta say, these guys look like little puppies. Little mouth opening, little breathing, little eyes moving. Cutest little guys. Definitely one of my favorites, just to hang out with these male greenlings. And so we figured, instead of walking back to the car, we might as well just drift there. So, packed the buoy, and threw everything in, and off we went. Just cruised along with the current. You can see everything is just getting turned, and pulled, and vibrating. But now we can finally do what the Perks were doing, and just turn into the current, and off we go. And right before we were coming out, we saw this little flounder bugger, and I figured, he's definitely in otter territory, and I better give him a little lesson. Teach him. So, I give him the yoink. I don't think he's too happy. At least, he's a lot less happy than I am, with a little yoink. So, he's curling up a little potato chip. I'm trying to tell him that's not what's going to help him stay alive. So, let him go. And now we're hoping that he's going to learn a lesson. And so far, no bueno. So, I decided to try again. Teach him a lesson. All right, buddy. So, these flounder, they do have an amazing ability to hide, but this guy really has not figured that out. So, I decided to try again. He's going, ah! Trying to scare me off with a big bite, that big mouth, trying to take a chunk out of me. So, I keep pressing the issue, because you know if it's not going to be me. And there you go, he Houdini's out of there. Just gone. No idea that there was a flounder there. So, that's it.