The spring fishing is slowing down but still quite good. My boat just got here a week ago and I’ve only had a few days fishing on it. Wow what a treat from Contender and Yamaha! All my electronics are new from Simrad and they are amazing! The changes in my combi unit the CA44 are phenomenal! The “herring run” was o.k. this spring, better then the disaster of last year but still not like in years past which is a shame. That doesn’t mean I didn’t get a lot of great bass fishing in up at the creek with the Vanderhoops! My mom was up and we fished it for a week every morning at 4:30 and every evening at 8:30. She said it was better fishing then she’d had in New Zealand this winter for trout. Now that’s an endorsement! We were fishing large imitation herring flies and not doing too well the first morning and so we switched to smaller flies that imitated the fry that was dropping down through the creek and we killed them!! Day after day after day we used the same flies and caught fish after fish after fish. It was magic. The ospreys were thick overhead diving all around us and the bass were crashing up into the narrow creek as far as they could swim and we had the most beautiful succession of sunrises and sunsets I can remember up there. I was thankful for the mid-moon cycle which brought us nice easy tides and normal fish-feeding patterns…
The pogy situation is not good. Apparently they’re walking on them south of New York but that doesn’t do us much good up here. My bait guy isn’t fishing them and everyone else who is says they can’t find them. It’s time to snag some other bait and see how it works. The other charter boats are still pulling in larger fish on trolling gear. Personally I can’t bring myself to give up on bait this early. I hope it improves. I’m psyched to have been featured in the August ad campaign for Contender’s “Prevailing Wins”. If you’re reading this you probably found the website info there. If so thanks for checking in and we’ll see you out on the water. Give me a call if you want to go fishing.
-Jen