east end 6/5

[fmw]

I got out yesterday morning. Got up early a.m. and headed to an East Hampton/Amagansett area shoreline spot known to reliably hold bass tight to shore on June mornings when sand eels are in. Sand eels not there yet and the spot was not happening. I guess things are running late, maybe by this weekend. Anyone seen sand eels on east end yet???

Continued on to boat in Montauk where there was bird action at the Elbow, etc. Caught 6-7 lb. blues on fly. Only bass caught were small and that was by putting a jig right on the bottom under the blues (even jig still mostly resulted in blues). When that died, did a little fluke fishing, which was mediocre.

[brushfly]

FMW,

Fished out Montauk way yesterday as well. Met a friend at Gone Fishing with his 6 yr. old and my 5 yr. old son. Needless to say, fly fishing wasn't part of the program. We went fluking as well and had a decent pick earlier during the flood. Next couple of hours were slow through the slack. Salvaged the day by moving south east to about 45-65' of the lighthouse and picked up another eight keepers on the flood. Left them biting at 4:00 and the sized were only getting bigger with our tops at 5lbs.

When did you leave Montauk? We left GFM at 6:15, turned around because of that tragic accident and hit Pizza Village. Back to my buddies house for the Met Game and Showers. Tried again at 10:00 and it was pretty easy sailing. A buddy of mine waited it out and it took 1hr. and 15min. from the town dump to the scene of the accident. Bad way to end what was a great day knowing somebody's life has turned tragic.

Anyway got back to Huntington at 12:00 with a second wind, and thought about hitting the Worm Hatch in Huntington Harbor with a 12:00 High- Outgoing. Have to work today so the thought was dismissed but I may go out super early Wed. AM....we'll see. Good luck to you this season and chat it up soon.

[fmw]

brushfly:
I was out earlier . . . got out in boat by 7ish and back to marina by noon. I too noticed that it got a little better after shifting to more s/se of lighthouse as compared with off ditch. Totally missed the accident . . . where was it??
Yes, I'm sure we'll catch up. I saw your reports of around huntington, I probably won't fish north shore till fall sometime.

[brushfly]

The accident was near the flood area off Hither Hills just east of Cyrill's. I'd guess it happened anywhere from 5:00+. At 6:30 Old Mntk. Hwy was backed up to 1/2 mile from Fork and the New Hwy. was about the same. 27A totally shut down for a good 2-3 hrs. Local police said it was a multi-fatality accident. No passing both ways. Eventually, they opened it "one way" alternating traffic east and west. At 10:00 it was backed up from the slope west of the overlook, to the scene of the accident. There a larger SUV was on it's side, it's roof 2/3 collapsed in what looked like a multi roll over. Although I didn't see the other vehicle, I heard it was unidentifiable.
My guess is somebody made an illegle U-turn and got hit by an oncoming car doing legal speed 55+.

[fmw]

napeague stretch always has terrible accidents and, unfortunately, is no shock given location near Cyril's.