Out with a bang, we think. The persistent NW winds have dropped the inshore temp to 50 degrees – down 11.5 degrees in one week. It has set the migration off quickly, and may precipitate a quick end ot our season. We’ll see.

If we’re done, way to go. Our morning trip – where I literally scraped frost from the boat seats, began on a good note with quick action on perfect “candy” mackeral. On a hunch I headed south, then second guessed myself with not a bump for the first hour. Returning north to a little fished spot, we came on a school of adult pogies working the surface. These guys, as big as my boot sole, are rarely found inshore here. We had a hit and long run soon after, bit came unbuttoned. Without warning a whale breached not one hundred feet from the boat – scattering pogies in 15 feet of water! This guy was hungry, blitzing through the pogie school again and again. The highlight was seeing it lunge head out of the water – not fifty feet away and headed towards us. The wake rocked the boat!
Beach walkers were cheering – I’d like to think for us but somehow having two whales as long as our boat cavorting on shallow water was the feature. But….

After snagging a few pogies we got our first trophy – a fat 43″ girl. Soon after a 41″, followed by a 40 and then finally a 34 that grabbed a pogie which had become snared on an eel – NO LIE. We also got bitten off by several bluefish that grabbed pogies we were retrieving for bait. What a day, indeed.

Our trips earlier in the week all produced quality fish, with the exception of one. Sorry Steve…

Well folks, this may be it. Unless the weather cooperates during the week and we have a corker warm weekend next. Right…..

Capt. Bob