Spent Saturday at Grandkids Birthday Pool Part and got home late last night and looked at the weather for Sunday. I was hoping to fish the evening tide, but they were calling for a fairly decent wind, but the morning was to be pretty calm. It was too late to call my normal fly fishing buddies, but knew my buddy Larry always gets up around 5:00 am. every day.
I texted him and said if you can make it meet me at the dock at 6:15 am.
Larry made it and we left the dock at 6:30 am. and again we decided to hit the ocean instead of the back bay. Cleared the inlet and found the water to be 64.5 degrees and it looked like brown sewer water and that was with the high tide still trickling in. We found cleaner water at a couple of other spots with water temps up to 66.6 degrees. We did see a few small pods of bunker working along the beach front, but nothing was pushing it.
We fished till 10:30 am. and it was a very slow pick for us. Larry caught the fish of the day. A nice 27 1/2 inch striper, that he released. He also got the only weakfish of the day. All I got was one tog and a throwback fluke. We just didn't get many hits at all and the water looked pretty dead with no signs of any small baitfish anywhere. Everything was caught on chartreuse/white clousers using sinking line. I ended up hooking a large skate by the tail. It really put up a good fight, but was a big disappointment when I got it to the surface. That was our sign to end the day. Not quite the trip I expected, but Larry's nice bass made his day.