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Sunday I launched at 4:30am and targeted striped bass for the first two hours without so much as a hit. The ledge I started at off Gooseberry Point for years would never give me the skunk from June-Oct and I mean never.
Fished ledges from Westport, Cutty and out to the Vineyard and finally started working back thru quicks before I finally picked up my first keeper of the day. Not so surprisingly to me anyway, it was a nice 5lb tog and not a striper, who took a 4" spilttail on a 1/2oz Kalan head bumping close to bottom off to the side of the channel, while targeting black sea bass. All morning off some humps around Gay Head, just rat sea bass, not a single keeper, no fluke, no stripers; just rats.
After a few more drifts I picked up two 24inch stripers and those were the only two all day. Picked up one more Tog and decided I'd hit the hens and chickens ledge outside of westport where I started the day to pick up one more tog for the limit. Man it was like a free dive convention hit town, yaks and little red flags everywhere. Was a yummy dinner last night, but that's a lot of ground to cover for a couple eaters.
I hate launching in Plymouth this time of year, especially being a weekend warrior, it's always a major S**T show getting out in the afternoon. Might have to force myself to do it and hit P-town early some morning to see what a larger striper even looks like these days, or be content to drift for sea bass, fluke or the more than occasional tog with an appetite for plastic.
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