shoulda been here yesterday
 

wow ...what happened..:huh: .yesterdays the canal had fish up n dwn everywhere, today ? sheep dip.... very few brakes ,less everything... no bait no fish. saw some of the big guns :nailem: , yesterday 2to4 fish ... today chit ...if anyone "didum "keep it to yourself.... also. :wave: thank you ryan smith . gotta love the canal spook. its just the right weight, and swims perr-fict. imo those fish are moving north w/ the bait...... but tons more a come.....:eyes: :huh: .how did the rest of you canal rats do today ????

Took a skunkin
 

Yes what a difference a day make -- wow - lucky I was there yesterday to :tooth:

Yesterday was a strange day. Cod, Pollock, Stripers and Macks. Everyone was hungry.

1 small keeper on top. Didn't see anything break. . Over the years I have a theory I never do well in the canal up top early morning when the SW blows.Could be coincidence but that theory just keeps repeating itself .. Should have slept in when I went out the door this morning at 3:30 and the leaves on the trees at my house were moving with a SW wind.

Yup, totally different day out there. Went with my brother and we worked multiple locations for several hours and not a fish between the two of us. Ran into Vic (ThrowingTimber) and chatted for a little while.

Went down there again today arrived @ 4:30 and I did not catch anything. As a matter of fact, I was screwing up all over the place. Lost a big storm shad, a jig, and had a nice problem with the braid wrapping around a guide and causing a big old knot.

and i thought i was going to regret it not going...

oh well
im still going later this evening, so still plenty of time for regret.

I subscribe to that same theory. And coincidence are not, each day that the SW honks, the fishing gets progressively worse. That's been my experience.

Today was a bust. I didn't fish but I spent a few hours this afternoon with many of the top guns and the consensus was, the fishing sucked. Yesterday, I had to be fishing at the only spot on the whole Canal where you didn't get a single shot at a breaking fish. Two poles either side of me, they creamed them :doh: I was fishing next to IFGs dad, and every fish caught at that pole came on either a jig or a Ronz. Tony's friend had a nice one on a white jig. He released it without taking it out of the water, so I didn't get a real good look at it, but from what I could see, it looked in the 22-25 lb range.

had a few fish attack my pencil but no hookups.

I was a nice cloudy day on the canal.

Met a guy named Ted from Woburn and talked with him for a while at the end of the day. Nice to meet someone who admits he is coo coo for stripers like me.

i,ll blame it on s/w winds .... but realy i think it was time to move on:bc: fish r moving north and spreading out in the bay.... look 4 bait.....find fish....yes??:bl:

I managed to get 1 for the table yesterday...but I think it was a case of the Fish Gods teaching us a lesson.

DON'T GO CHASING FISH REPORTS! :liquify: - - - :call:

The overcast skies would have been great had the fish been there. Even with the wind, I think had the bait been there like the day before, it'd been close to the same,, them there fish followed the tides/currents out and away...I'm sure someone had a good day in the bay yesterday, on their BOAT ;).....saw a couple of dudes from the site down near 280,,, :wavey:

This time of year, here today gone tomorrow -- - Let's hope the next few waves of fish continue to harbor LaRGe- My local rivers continue to see bait,,, :claps: ,,,, but I think the biggurls are staying up near Clamma,,, only 10lb fish being caught on 2lb pogys. :lossinit:

I never understood how you recognize female bloo's?

i had a nice saturday afternoon catching cocktail blues with the SSW wind, if anyone cares. bloos are fun. :jester:

I like SW wind other places but in the ditch it just doesn't pan out for top water action. Mark it down and check it over the years a pattern will arise. I am talking top water day break action . Time to hit CC Bay with the Bunker spoons for some of those big fish.

I am canal cursed. Tony O is a believer now. I was there EVERYDAY last week except for Saturday morning we had a fund raiser from the other site for mac. The ONE DAY Im not there in a WEEK all hell breaks loose... Tony you have to believe Im cursed NOW!!!

Yes he is and I fished with him on sunday!!!

With your skills and experience Vic its time to break that curse :bl: