Nervous water

[OldTimer]

Hey,

A recent conversation with a few acquaintances left me wondering if I’ve been seeing things for a very long while……… or that they weren’t paying attention while fishing.

I had simply stated that I can on some occasions see minor surface movements, small waves, or a condition I call “nervous water”………. which sometimes tips me off to the presence of fish below the surface in waters up to 5+ feet deep if it’s a calm day (but not dead calm).

I don’t actually see the fish, but I know they are there - and I have sensed this in “chocolate milk” water. I've caught some of them.

You’d think I had said that I could walk on water with their negative non believing gut-laugh reaction.

And - I’m not talking about the obvious “vee” wakes a migratory or spawning fishing makes in relatively shallow waters or in harbours when they’re cruising just under the surface.

The water looks different than it should, the ripples are wrong, the current and flow directions are incorrect, and the surface sometimes “blossoms/upwells ” slightly.

Am I getting senile and imagining past experiences and events? Or might my handicap of extreme colour blindness, with its altered light frequency and depth perception give me an edge here as it did in hunting (I can spot animal camouflage quite easily)?

But I can!............ Can’t you?


Cheers,

OldTimer