Anglers have been in quite the fog lately, as have folks using the Island for sundry purposes, like living. The frequent showing of ground-level clouds, aka fog, is simply not common for this time of year, at least not in N.J.; Callie, yes.

The sky thickness hasn’t been all that ruinous to surf fishing. It has been more agonizing to boat anglers juiced over the prospect of hooking into huge stripers moving in right off the beachline, mainly north of Barnegat Inlet.

It has gotten beyond monotonous to blame the year at hand for any and all weirdness, but what else conveniently covers…