Time: 0700-1000
Weather - Around 38 degrees at 0700, clear skies, slight breeze, seas calm, water temp 57 degrees. Incoming tide. Air temps warmed into the hight 50s by mid-morning.
Location - Whitehall Bay
Tackle - Silver Castmaster and Blue/silver Gotcha jigs.
Report - With Captain DiPaola otherwise occupied, I decided it was too nice of a day to not be on the water, if only for a couple of hours. Cleared the last marker into Whitehall Bay at 0715 ... no bird activity ... drove around until I marked fish. Picked up a 19 1/2 incher right away. Within the next 20 minutes picked up a 20 inch keeper. Fish were holding in about 13-16 feet of water.
No more action until around 0830 when the terns and gulls started to work the surface. Chased birds for the next hour. Boated a 22 inch keeper and later a 16 incher that literally hit my "Gotcha" jig at the boat. A little surface activity, but could only get one fish to chase my surface plug.
Bit of a challenge landing a 20-plus inch Striper by yourself. Then again, not a bad problem to have....
Tight lines,
Mikey D Fishing
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