Went fishing 🎣 in Manasquan Inlet this evening during a continuing, cloudy, cold 🥶 nor’easter on the low tide. Air temperature was only 62 degrees. It was very crowded with the afterwork fishermen, but I got a good parking spot again. Three spear fishermen walked past my car 🚘 as I was putting my boots on. Two more swam across my fishing spot very close to me and I took 3 pics. It’s very scary to have young guys with deadly weapons in crowded areas. I hope that nobody makes a mistake. While walking to my rock 🪨, I saw two bluefish flopping in the sand. Soon after I started casting my Ava and teaser rig into the inlet, I saw a fish 🐟 break water to my left. I replaced my Ava with a popper, then lost a bluefish. After I replaced my popper with the Ava, I caught a lot of weeds and 6 fishermen started fishing 🎣 too close to my right. I started using the popper again, then caught, tagged and released 23” and 20” bluefish and missed two other hits. Looks like a popper is a better bluefish lure than an Ava.