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Originally Posted by rphud
I would have to say for the week I was walking the beaches I saw very little bait. One little pod of rain bait in the Gut and some herring and nuts in Menemsha basin and silversides at Edgartown was about it. Heard of some small bait near Squibby and along Philbin, but that about is the sum total. My theory is not bait no fish, and I am stickin to it. Of course the two weeks prior to my arrival was albie madness on East Beach. My other theory is timing is everything.
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The bait started dissipating when the winds kicked up. However, there was butterfish galore and pogies galore in Edgartown harbor. I bought some pogies that you could have weighed at derby headquarters they were so big. I did see bait in the gut a few times when I fished there, and every fish I caught there was a result of blind casting. One guy was throwing a drift net from the wharf and leaving the pogies on the wharf for whomever one day, which was very nice. On the east facing beaches the first week it was pretty thick with spearling (sic?) and then sand eels moved in.