Went out for some light tackle angling today, hoping to find some early stripers or most likely blues. Fished from Plum across to Watch Hill, but pretty much all the big schools of blues were up at the west end of the race. Lot's of fish, and believe it or not, picky. Yes, picky bluefish. The party boats that were drifting and fishing deep were getting consistent hits on big blues, but the fish coming up to the top for the light tackle crowd weren't jumping in the boats. Typically when you see the big schools on the surface the only worry is whether multiple blues will cut you off. Today they were far less willing to bite a variety of artificials. Anyway, the place was loaded and we did catch fish, just not the arm busting day one would expect. Might have had to do with the fact that as soon as a school came up, 30 boats were closing from all directions. Reminded me why I avoid weekends like the plague.
Hell no. Went with Jack Balint. We did watch 2 guys in a boat about mine's size nearly swamp. They came out on the slack tide as as it picked up they kept drifting into bigger and bigger rips. Finally one went over their stern and I don't know how they managed to get out w/ 25hp. We were closest and expected to have to pick them out of the water. Livened up a slow spell.
