bdowning
05-16-2000, 11:02 AM
Pretty good AM bite at the Canal herring run. Before high slack caught my first Y2K keeper, 32 inches, and a 25 incher. Lots of schoolies caught (not by me, ran out of live herring) at slack and for an hour after the turn. But I'm still seeing predominantly smallish fish in the Canal, except for that incredible morning last Wednesday.
Went to West end and caught a few schoolies on whole dead herring. Not exactly what I had in mind ;-). The water felt COLD in the West end on the west-running tide.
Went to South Cape in mid-afternoon to check the bluefish situation. They were around, but not in the massive numbers of a few days ago. Serious cross winds made long casts and line control almost impossible. Also, the worst possible tide (dead low). For the most part they were hitting sporadically for the guys with ultra-long casts (mine are only long ;-)). Checked further east near Poppy. More wind-sheltered, had a follow or two in an hour, but that was about it.
-bd
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Went to West end and caught a few schoolies on whole dead herring. Not exactly what I had in mind ;-). The water felt COLD in the West end on the west-running tide.
Went to South Cape in mid-afternoon to check the bluefish situation. They were around, but not in the massive numbers of a few days ago. Serious cross winds made long casts and line control almost impossible. Also, the worst possible tide (dead low). For the most part they were hitting sporadically for the guys with ultra-long casts (mine are only long ;-)). Checked further east near Poppy. More wind-sheltered, had a follow or two in an hour, but that was about it.
-bd
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