On board today, I had new client, George Ferguson & crew, from Michigan, for fly & light tackle striped bass.

To say the bay was loaded with fish today would be an understatement. Small and medium-size striped bass to 27 3/4″ inches were stacked up in many of my spots and all my spots held fish. We had triple and quadruple hook-ups non-stop, pretty much all morning. One school of fish had some absolute cows holding on the bottom at slack tide and they would take nothing! Painful to set those drifs and not hook-up. But the non-stop action on the other fish was pretty amazing.

Top tackle today was rubber cranks baits for LT and an all white deciever for fly. George also fished my Baymen Universal Fly pattern tied with some extra long rooster hackles that gives it incredible movement when slowly stripped. We had several nice takes on the fly in skinny water and got to see the bass roll on the fly and suck it in. Pretty awesome!

Total catch and release today was an incredible one-hundred-sixteen (116) striped bass. That number will most likely stand for the rest of the season!

Back at it. Stay Posted:

Capt. Dave
www.baymenlife.com

POST NOTE: An interesting event on the bay this morning: USCG copters, boats, Harbormasters from Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth, State Police and Plymouth Fire were all on the bay, around it and above it, doing a search and rescue mission for a missing kyaker. A boat report a lime-green yak with paddle adrift by Bug Light at 4:00am. The entire bay for 29 square miles was grid searched. The mission was called off after no person was found.