Fished the ditch with fellow Rell-Timer Doug Burgess. Couldn't help but take the morning off from work after reading the posts of the keepers being tossed off of the Scusset pier. Rick's CEO joined us for this trip too, but he said Rick had to work - or else!
The morning started slow until 1/2 hour before dawn, when fish were seen all up & down the canal. We started about 1/2 mile East of the Sagamore bridge, kinda opposite the power plant. Fish were plentiful, but we got nothing over 26", although a few Doug had were some of the fattest schoolies in the 24" size I've seen this year. "Something" big was in the water in front of us while dark, but couldn't make it out. Around 8am a shark or two mosied down the middle, heading East.
We each got one decent fish on - one line broken (chafed through the loop, not the knot) and the other - no excuses... After action slowed here, we went towards Scusset.
Everyone we saw was either fighting a fish, landing one, or getting ready to catch one. I tried over a dozen lures from jigs, kastmasters, fjord spoons, 9-ER shads, zoom flukes, atoms floating poppers, etc. and all caught strikes. I found the strikes to be very subtle, and had to slow down my retrieve and twitch my rod tip less. Hey - I'm a boat fisherman - some of this shore pluggin' is foreign to me!
We left around 10am with the fish still biting and surfacing. The only way you couldn't catch a fish, though they were small, was when weed fouled the plug or lure. Doug had to go as it was his last day @ work and they wanted to take him out to lunch. And here we were fishing, with fish all over the place . . . maybe that's why it was his last day . . .