Thanks all, I really do appreciate the suggestions, today I start my vacation, we will see what develops.
I actually tried fishing the canl the other night after a vsit from Numby which got me fired up a bit but after several hours in the dark shadows of the canal just west of the Sagamore, I went home with the big skunkeroo. I had some delicious looking 3 oz eelskins bouncing bottom, some RonZ's and some jig head w/ sluggos and some bottle plugs wiggling thru the water but to no avail.
Obviously I have the big stink on me for some reason so I would stay away from me until I sliop out from under it's grasp.
Piemma, my thoughts are with you and your new round of health issues, I send you the very best of luck and may God's hand be on your shoulders. You'll beat it no doubt.
I have been fishing trout in a local salt creek and doing very well and that is one of the things that have kept me away from the bass fishing. No other people at all, a beautifull sunset each night that the sun is shining across a broad salt marsh, hell I even found a few plugs this past week on the marsh that must have come in on the new moon tides. My perserverance in the salter fishing paid off last Monday evening with a once in a lifetime catch and release of an 18 inch sea run Rainbow. I guess you could call it a Cape Cod Steelhead.
Neon green back crimson swath along it's sides with a broad tail and solid as a rock. It still swims there still along with several Browns I have caught and released to just under 21 inches, the bug has even taken a few school bass mixed in the bunch.
Like the construction trades the hard life of a surfcaster is a young man's game, knees and back get sorer each year and the urge to sleep more prevails. Crowds more than anything are what make me not want to get up and go. I stopped fishing the cnal when the herring run and chunk bait fishing peaked several years back. Last year was phenomenal plugging there, higher gas prices kept a lot of people away and boat traffic to a minimum. This year, now that plugging has come back into vogue and gas prices are lower, the crowds are back.
I look forward to this next two weeks, to seeing Prof M laughing his arse off whikle chatting out loud to the bass and the many ghosts that haunt the flats we fish and seeing Saltfly walking in ankle deep water flyrod in hand surrounded by hundreds of backs, dorsal fins and tails and of course the applauding bass. To fishing with 2na on the outer Cape and numby, sauerkraut, stiffy and ESL along the upper cape and island shores.
Like someone said previously, I will do it with no pressure, no expectations and just to have fun.
I will report on our progress.
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