What a treat this week has been I have had a good variety of trips that have taken me on the saltwater and the local ponds. Striper fishing continues to improve as the fish move up from the south. Still no real big fish (there never are early on) but good numbers of fish that make it fun for everyone.
My son and one of his friends carried a canoe to one of my favorite bass ponds and had an excellent afternoon of fishing. The smallmouth bass are on the spawning beds this week and they caught by their own estimation “a bunch of fish” of course I am now striper fishing for a while and won’t have a day to get up there before next week. Interesting that the fly rod accounted for many more fish than a spinning rod, sometimes it just happens that way.
The season is off to a great start, this morning I fished for stripers. They have been around for a week or so but this was my first real chance to chase them. I headed up the Saint George to my regular spring striper spot and had a fish on my second cast. This spot is very close to the head of the tide and the river feels much more like a freshwater river than the tidal flow that it is. The water is dark brown and still like many of our ponds. The reason for the stripers being there is the spring run of alewives, a herring that is heading up the river to spawn.
