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Slip I made an dark run through the canal early this morning and I can tell you there is SQUAT for bait in there. There was NO fish anywhere to be found except for the east cape side around a bridge not under construction. Even then it was on the bottom and they were not good returns so they were not big fish. This lack of bait in normal areas is not good. Last year we saw a serious decline and this year it seems even worse?
We did not find bait until we hit the bifur can outside Barnstable. We marked fish twice on the bottom across the bay. There was no top blitzes anywhere at false dawn running east.
The water is 57-61 degrees even on the flats. Still way cold. We found small pods of sand eels on the flats with hungry bass everywhere and nobody around. Ran the 50-60' contour on the way back to east end and there was squat out there.
Someone had a 35lb 48" fish on one of my needles today and a 15 lb blue too so there's fish out there but man these things gotta be gettin damn hungry.
Ted and I were commenting today how skinny and racer-like alot of the bass were. But there were many others that had large shoulders and very agressive too so they're eating something?
Last year was the first year that I did not see acres and acres of brown water from schools of peanut bunker in Vineyard Sound. I never saw bluefish in all out fall blitzes like normal in Vineyard Sound either. Sure there were blitzes etc but not the days and days of no stop hammering action on bait so thick you could walk on it.
Honestly I think theres something going on here that these scientists aren't seeing. What it is I don't know but with all the declines of fish like pogies etc I think there is cause for concern?
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