7/1 Still Busy, Still Windy

Busy with boat stuff. Life stuff. Did get my boat out a few times lately which has resulted in some tricky fishing. I have mostly been trying for Fluke, but the Fluke fishing is tough. Plenty of shorts, plenty of Seabass with the 2 per man limit being pretty easy, but not much to write home about.

One recent day I launched the boat in Point Judith, fished along the beaches for a few hours catching only 2 small keeper Fluke and a few keeper Seabass. Being slow, I decided to take a ride up along the rocky shoreline of Narragansett and see if anything was happening up there. We watched the sky get darker and darker, and within short order the skies opened up and a huge thunderstorm engulfed us. It happened so fast, and was not forecasted. It was the day after a cold front blew through which eliminated our humidity and gave us a north wind, these storms popped up to the north and moved south. With the brunt of the storm being right over Point Judith, we ran to the north and east to try to get out of it, making it as far as the Newport Bridge before we finally got out of the rain. Totally soaked, and in disbelief that had just happened, we sat there in the now sunny weather just happy to be out of the rain and under the warmth of the sun rays. Noticed some birds starting to organize as we sat there, we lucked into a little bit of striper activity and started catching 24"-32" bass on Topwater and metal. That action lasted an hour or so and was a blessing after the slow and wet morning we had just had. There were plenty more storms to dodge on our way in, but we stayed dry the rest of the day. Dropping a 40-60gram metal straight down and burning it back to the surface was getting the most bites. Also picked up a couple short fluke in the same area in 70'.

Seabass Action locally has been finicky, I've been having my best luck casting 1.5-2oz metals out away from the boat, letting them hit bottom, then slow rolling them back to the boat. Slow, very slow, crawling it just off the bottom. Im having better luck getting keepers in the sandy zones in 30-40', when I fish rocks, I cant get through the shorts, so many shorts. Strange pattern but the sand is holding plenty of quality seabass.

The day we got chased out by the storm, the Stripers were hitting the 60g metals. We caught a dozen or so, keeping one slot. Seabass and Fluke came from the ocean front.