Where did all that bait go?

[Flaptail]

Scott, first of all thanks for the package today. The only bright spot in a day that saw me stranded without a ride and a $518.00 bill for the truck for a new radiator, oh well the joys of four wheel ownership. I luv that needle man, that thing is the balls!

57 to 61 is perfect in my book for the flats in CCB. Keeps the Bloofish away though there still are some marauding the flats at you no where. This year I have seen more bait than in the last ten years and it's not just sandeels, it's baby herring and for the first time in a long while I had fish blasting adult pogies in the harbor three weeks ago. I was out on the Flats last night in my skiff with Stiffy and Alan Cordts following in Alan's whaler and we all caught though the wind did not die so spotting was tough but blind casting in known bass hangouts we did just fine.

This should continue untill the middle of July but it's over for me this weekend as the first School Bluefin was taken east of Chatham yesterday and I was fondling my squids this afternoon in anticipation of this years campaign.

As for on the beaches out front one only has to go beyond the bar at Peaked Hill and Head of the Meadow and it's all there, for some unknown reason it won't come on the beach and so the surfcasters suffer. Plus the closure thing ( Nauset went down today officially), now it's hike it and like it or don't fish. Or you could be like me and easily be swayed into a boat.

In Buzzards Bay there are plenty of big bass in certain places being held by large schools of real pogies not peanuts. I beleive these fish would come through the canal but they know a good thing when they have it so the canal guys are left jigging mostly fishless water. 30 pounders are being taken every day by savvy BB guys and they ain't about to welcome company. Agin, a boat really helps.

In the good ol days tin skiffs were regurlarly launched from P-Town and outer cape beaches, I beleive when the beaches reopen the most succesful will be those who re-visit that past tradition. For the common surfcaster of modest income it's a reality within reach and should be looked into. The bait and fish are there and there is a way to have them. RMMMMM, RMMMMMM, RMMMMM!!!!!!