On board today, I had regulars Ken Hartshorn, Frank Harrington III, and Frank’s two sons for light tackle striped bass.

At first light, the bay was flat calm like a mill pond with reflections of the harbor on the water. It was bluebird beautiful and it stayed that way the entire day.

We headed for Browns Bank in search of fish but got detoured by a school of fish working under birds in Plymouth. Not a lot of fish, but we picked up several in short order on light tackle rubber crank baits using the cast and count technique (bails open). This pod of fish was working bait down deep and did not hold for us. We bounced around and played ping-pong with them and figured it out. My crew did well.

At slack high, we decided to drift several of my structure spots and fish were there. Not stacked up, but singles and doubles like we have been seeing the past week. We added several more fish to our catch and release count. We hit a few more structure spots with rubber cranks and then it was time to fish the other side of the bay.

We switched up our tackle to all topwater lures and set many drifts. We had some exciting topwater explosions and hooked up on fish on every drift. No keepers in the mix but all very fat, healthy and hard fighting bass to 26″ inches.

Our last stop on the bay was under a handful of birds working some bass in 1-2 fow up on the flats. We fished the channel edge drop-offs and rounded out the morning with a few more fish. Total catch and release today was 50 striped bass to 26″ inches, all on light tackle gear. A great morning on flat seas – a bluebird day!

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Capt. David Bitters, BAYMEN, baymenlife.com