Night fishing

The water here at Orchid bay is quite clear and once in a while I have been turning on the transom lights at night. One night we here this strange slashing noise and figure there is a large fish down there worth exerting a bit of extra effort to see. As it 'terned' out, there is this heron of some sort hanging out on the swim platform way past his bed time scarfing up all the bait fish! Obviously this bird had been on boats doing this before because it did not care if we made noise, it moved to a safer spot under the dink. Interesting...
With all the time we have on our hands maintenance items have been getting taken care of. Cetol has been (and will continue to be) applied to the bow pulpit and rails and other general clean up will get done.
I have to admit with being away from the Rondout the boat stays much cleaner on the outside. There is no gravel mine dust and train exhaust to settle on the boat. We get light grey streaks down here, not black streaks.
Hopefully the wind settles down today (as predicted) and we get to do some fishing.