I was there on and off from 7 to 3 and only saw a few scattered pods along the entire falmouth shore. Waquoit was dead at 7 at the end of the outgoing; at about 7:30 me and the other 2 boats headed over to West Chop. There were scattered fish at West Chop, nothing I could settle into or drift across. About 9 or so I came back, checked Waquoit which was even deader on the beginning of incoming.
Back I went to West Chop, now populated by 15 boats and a few pods popping up very slowly and scattered. I started over to east Chop and ran into a good series of schools right in the middle of V.H. at the very entrance. I never was able to really get going on any of the schools; the other 15 boats showed and as the schools were moving about in open water we were all nudging and budging as we tried to set up on them. No one was run and gunning, but the constant movement wasn't doing any good.
At about noon, low tide; V.H. died; I went back to Waquoit and puttered around there and the Falmouth/S.Cape shore for 2 hr's seeing nothing, it started pouring at 2 just as Waquoit was starting to flow out and I called it a day. I'm sure the fish showed up at 4...
BTW - those splashes you were seeing were big bass, 25+" up on the surface around the tip of the west jetty. At least while I was waiting in vain for albacore I amused myself with a couple of them. And to be honest I did raise a bunch of 24"+ bass along S. Cape and Menahunt during my forays; so the day wasn't a total wash.
But I do suspect we will have seen the end of the albies by Sunday...