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That is true you do notice more dogfish hookups when letting the jig sink to the bottom but that is also where we have been hooking the larger bass lately too. We had a strange occurance Sat. morning when while fishing due east of Chatham light we found ourselves surrounded by a very large school of 9-12 pound blues which were so close to the boat you could poke their eyes out with the tip of your rod if you wanted. Even though it was fairly breezy the water immediatly surrounding the boat had a surreal calmness or glassiness to it so viewing all these fish was like being at New England Aquarium in Boston. Of course it helps to have polarized sunglasses I just wished my camera had a polarized lense to take a photo. I didn't think of putting my sunglasses over the camera lense until it was too late and they were gone. We did manage mulitple hookups and breakoffs. Had a real beauty of a fight on the flyrod until another blue decided he liked the fly too. The weird thing was how these fish were just milling about he stern of the boat and were not engaged in a feeding frenzy. I think maybe a predator in the area had them hanging close to the boat for cover. Overall we were drifting at a good clip due to the winds and they stayed with us for over ten minutes.
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