OK sorry for the late report but it was the wife's birthday over the weekend and so hopefully better late than never. Anyway last week was first time that the trolling rods were stowed for the majority of the time and we were able to connect with moderate to good success with trophy size stripers and on the lighter tackle with live bunker when the schools of bunker were present and the weather cooperated. when we did bring out the trolling tackle it did offer more action which included big racer bluefish as well.

When the weather did not cooperate the back bay provided robust fun light tackle top water action from blues in the 1-4 lbs range which has been a blessing since the bay's water is almost a gelatinous state [ solidified ] with the extremely high algae bloom presently on hand. Any attempt to jig for fluke or weakfish was met with harsh slap of denial in the form of copious amounts of the dreaded algae fouling the jigs before any presentations could be attempted. Thank God for those "almost always cooperative" scrappy little gamsters to bend the rods.

Wishing everyone fair winds and calm seas,

Capt. Steve Purul