The Striper fishing is amazing
I have been pretty busy this week guiding mostly striper fishing trips and have had excellent to great fishing. In fact on Monday morning the clients took the time to count the fish that they caught and got over 100. Most of them are small but I think that a few larger fish are showing up on each rising tide. My slowest trip of the last several days was an afternoon trip from 2 to 5 and the clients caught maybe 15 fish. Not to shabby given the time of day and tide.
The fish have been chasing bait to the surface on the rising tide each day making for a great hour or two after the tide turns. I have noticed that I am no better than the gulls and am simply hanging around waiting for the big event to happen and rushing to the bait boil the second it starts. It can be frantic but it is always amazing to be right in the middle of stripers chasing bait on the surface and gulls in the air all around dropping to the surface to take advantage of the situation. I’ve done it a thousand times but still find it exciting, not to mention we always catch a bunch of fish when it happens.
The young foxes must be out hunting for themselves at this point in the summer I have seen a different one every day at the edge of the woods along the river. The sightings have been miles apart and on different sides of the river so I know that it is not the same one over and over.
