On board today, I had regular, Dick Bowman & his trademark cigar, for light tackle striped bass. At first light, a stunning sunrise and calm seas. Light West wind and high tide. Mostly sunny.

Yesterday’s fish were gone, but there were still a bunch of bass inside the bay from Plymouth to Duxbury to Kingston. We started out on a small school of breaking fish. I decided to leave those breaking fish (!) and chase down a rumor of some big fish just offshore. We made the run, glassed and sonar the area and struck out. We ran back to the breaking fish – and they were gone.

From there, we started to fish structure all over the bay. We found a few fish in most of my spots and they hit topwater poppers and rubber crank baits. We did not mark a single bass inside the bay today, but we found the in very skinny water up on the flats and around structure. Towards the end of the morning, we hit the jackpot and found breaking fish under birds! We fished them hard until the dropping tide drove us out of there. A couple more spots on the way home and we called it a great day.

Lots of bait in the bay. A handful of pogy, tiny peanut bunker, and a longer two inch minnow. We ended the morning with 35 fish and 2 keepers. They were picky, but Dick had an arsenal of poppers with him and we found a silver/black Chug Bug to be the ticket. The lure has rattles and I think that is a big draw.

Back at it. Stay Posted: September is in our sights.

Capt. Dave
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