Thanks for the info. Tried B-Buoy at ~4:30-5 pm, but all the fish on the finder were hugging the bottom. To windy to drift, and to deep to troll (at least for my gear). Went back inside and trolled from ~6:30-10:30 pm and picked up 4 stripers, 1 keeper (combination of tube-n-worm & niners). Not a single bluefish which was weird. Had a lot of strikes on the tube which did not end up in hook-ups though. The hooks were nice and sharp, just tentative hits I guess. Anyway, marked what looked like big balls of bait, but saw no surface activity at all. No hits on spoons or storms thrown down into the fish either. The one keeper had shells (or maybe stones) in his stomach. Unless the "baitfish" we were marking weren't really baitfish, then I am confused. Lots of bait, but no real activity, and the one we kept was eating muscles. I haven't been out as much as I would like this year
but when I have it seems like there is lots of bait around, but not much on the surface. Don't get me wrong, I have seen blitzes, but I have also seen large schools of what appear to be baitfish, with what appear to be schools of big fish below them, and nothing happening. Anyone else noticed this phenomenon?
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