This morning was slower fishing than I have had the rest of the week in three hours only a dozen fish but a couple of nicer fish in the bunch. I think the slow fishing was due in part to being near the slack high tide. I have always had better luck on lower tides. We’ll see what happens on tomorrow mornings tide. The gulls are hanging around on the likely ledges waiting for the stripers to chase the bait to the surface so I know that the baitfish are still around and there are stripers to chase them to the surface. Eternal optimisim!
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.
In spite of the fact that the river is running brown tannin stained water well out into the salt water there are a good number of stripers to be caught. One unusual feature is that there is so much water flowing out of the river that the incoming tide does not really run in but rather the river simply fills up with more brown water instead of a rush of cool green sea water. Different to be sure and it has impacted the color preference of the fish for flies. For the last few days pure white has been the clear winner over every other pattern.
