6/26 monomoy

 Fishing the rips on the cape for bass is my favorite way to fish. We got some great weather this weekend and made the most of it. Bass were on small squid so small squid flies and pink sluggos were the way to go. We made one offshore run for tuna and hooked one but lost it. The fish were around but really difficult to get to eat. 

 

   Tuna morning  looking for tunas

 Back to bass fishing

 

   Great fishing beer

 

   Quite a day

6/19 Chesapeake fly fishing

The bass have definitely started to move around a little more and the bigger fish have largely left the bay. Hopefully soon the schoolies will be schooled up and blitzing.     

After work fishing

I've had some chances to fish after work which have had great results. The low light conditions are great at that time of day and there can be fewer boat although not as few as I had hoped       

Memorial Day on the Cape

We fished the cape hard over Memorial Day and couldn't believe the amount of sea bass in the sound. May is always good for sea bass but I've never seen this many. There were lots of schoolies around as well with some nice blitzes.    

Big fish in June

We fished the Kent Narrows fly and light tackle tournament again this year and again it was a great time. A record number of boats turned out this year and I'm guessing that a record number of big fish were caught. We caught a number of fish on fly that would have won in years past that didn't place this year. Joe Behot, our ringer, caught a 34" bass on a 4" sluggo that was about an inch shy of third. It was a great time!     

World Oceans Day

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim — the rocks — the motion of the waves — the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?" — Walt Whitman

6/2 Chesapeake fishing report

After a very warm Memorial Day weekend the weather has settled out quite a bit. Other than some rain we should see nice fishing weather coming up. Most of the cows have moved out of the bay and the schoolies are beginning to school up but nothing like they will later in the summer. This is a transitional time of year where you can find fish shallow in low light conditions and in more normal summer locations during the day.