West Wall Yesterday!!!

[JohnR]

Figured that would get your attention :P ...

OK, went to the Wall yesterday. Winds at my house were East and winds at my Rhody office were North BUT, several web weather thingamagiggys were saying SW for Westerly, Block, and URI Bay campus - all roughly bracketing the West Wall. Unfortunately, the Matunuck Beach Surf Cam indicated flat water which is OK with a SW wind... Armed with that hope, I headed down for what I feel is the true ritual kick-off for spring... As I'm suiting up, I realive that it feels south, which is not great but not bad - I get over the hill to the wall and it's blowing out of the south east. The only thing worse there would be a NE wind... Otherwise, it was a beautiful day on the wall. Of the roughly twenty people there, nobody had a hit, let alone a rod curled for anything other than a bottom snag... Steve M. thought he saw some fish breaking but no joy after castig to where they were...

So, still no fish at the Wall. There were a handfull last week but nobody has had any since (at least the regulars I talked to)... But if the weather holds warm for a few days AND we get some SW winds - it should start heating up soon....

'Cours, last year was a marginal year for the Wall and not as good as the past few years.

What I did get to see was a nice spring day on clean water (not fishing the toilet like Providence :P ) with a nice sunset and the knowledge that the good fishing is just a week or two away...