I joyfully admit I fully flubbed one of my fall predictions. I had prophesied a busy-ass September on LBI, almost on par with summertime times, based on last year.

Well, the masses did not respond in kind. The month has seen an off-the-table drop in the Island’s general population. I hadn’t prophetically factored in the de-peopling effect from a return to in-person schooling. This is not to say that weekends aren’t being adequately populated – and likely will be until skies dictate otherwise.

There’s a ton of angling and aesthetic value to this quickie quiet-down, especially after the dull roar of what was a…