Damn Western tides! I just don't know why I even bother on those cycles. I arrived at the Cape side, Aptuxet/Keene St area around 6:45 AM. I chose this area due to some inside info that stripers had been breaking there the last two mornings. Well, there were a few here and there, but mostly in the middle. Perhaps a Grisled Canal Master could reach them, but not a grass hopper level canal rat like myself. Lots of seaweed weighted down my popper, so I switched to a 3 oz crockadile spoon. But alas, to no avail. I saw a few small schoolies caught, but nothing special. There were 1"-2" juvenile herring in the water on occasion. Nothing for me.
Around 8:30 AM, I headed to the 100 stairs/Cribbin area. Chunked and chummed a few rips without a bite and called it quits. Again, saw a few, scattered, breaking fish, only one of which was even close to casting distance.
Those damn albino dump buzzards must be starved. They harrassed and hung around any bait fishermen in the area.
Took the day off work today to do some work on the house. But damn, I can't even get a ladder tall enough to do the job. As I told Scott S. "Perhaps more time to fish then". Maybe this afternoon during the Eastern tide?
-John-