On board today, I had regular, Col. Richard “The Machine” Comstock, for fly fishing only striped bass.

At first light, a near flat-calm bay on a very low minus tide. The ramp was like scaling a cliff and I saw two people slip and tumble down it before my charter. Be careful on the Duxbury gangway ramp. It is almost always very slick on the low tides. (I dislocated my shoulder on it last September, and have had clients that needed medical attention after slipping on it).

Back to fishing. Richard and I headed out on the rising tide with about a dozen other boats and found fish right off. A couple of birds working overheard, a couple of fish breaking topwater, but most fish were on the flats or the channel drop-offs. Richard fished an all-white clouser made of saddle hackle. The bass slammed it

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Almost all fish this morning were micros. I mean really small fish, with a couple exceptions. Richard landed a 27″ and a 26″. Everything else was very small, but lots of fun. At one point, we switched to a topwater popper and had some fun with the fish bringing them to the top for some wicked hits!

Total catch and release today was 27 fish. We cut the trip short (because it was all small fish) and did the next best thing: went out to breakfast at The Hop in Brant Rock! :o)

Back at it. Stay Posted:

Capt. Dave
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