Man,
What a weekend. I fished all day Saturday (more or less sun to sun) and then from 7 AM to 10 AM this morning. Here are the places that I hit:
Loop Beach and the Narrows - Cotuit
The Parkers River and the Bass River - West Yarmouth
The Herring River - Harwich
Stage Harbor/Hardings Beach - Chatham
Oregon Beach - Cotuit
To sum up my weekend...skunked. I did not see much bait at all but for some sand eels (or some other small bait du jour) in the Bass River estuaries.
I found all kinds of rust in my cast this weekend and I have new found motivation to lay down some line on the lawn at work during lunch. Hopefully I will be shooting some real line by the Spring Clave. My new 10 wt. Winston casts a 350 grain like a champ but it was not stellar with my Aqualux intermediate line.
Now on to more important matters: First of all, many thanks to Jeff Borkowski, Roop, Juro and Bill Stanton for their stellar company, generosity and hospitality. This year I plan on paying you back with some hospitality and generosity of my own. Perhaps I could get you guys into a couple of my kayaks so that you could head out to some otherwise unreachable fishing locales, beach the yaks and then enjoy a pristine and solitary cow fest. I will plan on bringing the yaks to the Spring Clave. They may prove to be useful on the Brewster Flats. The sandbars/flats in and around Chatham can be another great place to beach the yaks and fish.
Juro, it was great to see you hook up with your first striper of the season. That was the only hookup that I witnessed thoughout the course of the entire weekend. Juro, did you get any more schoolies after I left this morning or does your son have the right to harass you and your fresh skunkitude? How about you Roop?
Schoolies are here and hopefully they will arrive in consistent numbers sometime soon. I think that the South Side will be on fire during the Spring Clave. Then again, some sour girl behind the counter at Friendly's predicted a June arrival for the schoolies. After I dropped my two scoops of cookie dough on the floor she realized that she just shouldn't say that to a salty guy in waders come this time of year. True story.
I will see you at the Spring Clave...
-Mike Doogue
What a weekend. I fished all day Saturday (more or less sun to sun) and then from 7 AM to 10 AM this morning. Here are the places that I hit:
Loop Beach and the Narrows - Cotuit
The Parkers River and the Bass River - West Yarmouth
The Herring River - Harwich
Stage Harbor/Hardings Beach - Chatham
Oregon Beach - Cotuit
To sum up my weekend...skunked. I did not see much bait at all but for some sand eels (or some other small bait du jour) in the Bass River estuaries.
I found all kinds of rust in my cast this weekend and I have new found motivation to lay down some line on the lawn at work during lunch. Hopefully I will be shooting some real line by the Spring Clave. My new 10 wt. Winston casts a 350 grain like a champ but it was not stellar with my Aqualux intermediate line.
Now on to more important matters: First of all, many thanks to Jeff Borkowski, Roop, Juro and Bill Stanton for their stellar company, generosity and hospitality. This year I plan on paying you back with some hospitality and generosity of my own. Perhaps I could get you guys into a couple of my kayaks so that you could head out to some otherwise unreachable fishing locales, beach the yaks and then enjoy a pristine and solitary cow fest. I will plan on bringing the yaks to the Spring Clave. They may prove to be useful on the Brewster Flats. The sandbars/flats in and around Chatham can be another great place to beach the yaks and fish.
Juro, it was great to see you hook up with your first striper of the season. That was the only hookup that I witnessed thoughout the course of the entire weekend. Juro, did you get any more schoolies after I left this morning or does your son have the right to harass you and your fresh skunkitude? How about you Roop?
Schoolies are here and hopefully they will arrive in consistent numbers sometime soon. I think that the South Side will be on fire during the Spring Clave. Then again, some sour girl behind the counter at Friendly's predicted a June arrival for the schoolies. After I dropped my two scoops of cookie dough on the floor she realized that she just shouldn't say that to a salty guy in waders come this time of year. True story.
I will see you at the Spring Clave...
-Mike Doogue