9/6 - skunked on the south shelf

[backman]

Ran a long day trip which took us as far south as 40 10/70 35 in a hunt for a shelf bite. As seems to have been the case for most everyone the pelagics, mahi excepted, were missing.

We targetted the eastern of the 2 fingers of warm water pushing up from west atlantis and put in at 40 30/70 32 on a 68-70 degree break with lots of skipping little bait and birds. No fish other than a trio of mahi under a long lost pot.

We trolled south and more south for hours, from green to green blue to blue water, picking on a visible 2 degree green blue -> blue break for hours. We went into 75-76 degree clear blue water; fished over whales, porpoise, mola and frigate mackerel with nothing else showing.

Yesterday was fishing in a desert; its going to be very hard to garner up the will for another shelf day trip after this one...

[amarshall]

Wondering if there's a correlation between your desert and the ghost town called Stellwagen bank.

Tons of sharks. Very little charlie. Warm warm water.

[Bill_N]

Similar story at the Mudhole yesterday. 25-30 sharpies targetting giants in the south end. Some bait showers here and there which looked like FA's. Good dogfish bite though if you put a bait down

[CaptainCJ35]

Wondering if there's a correlation between your desert and the ghost town called Stellwagen bank.

Tons of sharks. Very little charlie. Warm warm water.

Ugh... not what I wanted to hear. Planning on heading out Thursday to the BE Buoy, fishing the eastern edge and working south. Maybe I'll check out the NWC instead.

[SaltyDog]

Damn! Worst fears realized. That great looking finger that tortured everyone with crap fishing before the storm still sucks. Going to force everyone to put some time in to figure out a plan. The obvious is clearly obscure. Be interesting to see how Damon does at Hydro.

[sokinwet]

Hit the NW corner and BE buoy area on Mon. for a late trip from noon till 6:00 pm. Dead.

[backman]

I should reiterate the water *looked* great again. nice edges, good color, nice pockets of life - just no fish....

[On The Edge]

Yesterday was fishing in a desert; its going to be very hard to garner up the will for another shelf day trip after this one...

Hang in there LB. To take a page from the playbook of this guy i know of.

8/15 - Below the Lanes - YDKIYDG

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[Reel Pursuit]

Well that's not very good news.
But it is still early after the blow. I'm hoping things change by the weekend. Looks like overnighter potential for Sat/Sun.

[Parapapam]

Had a great day playing with big bluefish (not bluefin...) on lite spinners with the kids until the tide turned. I then headed out to scout Nomans in the flat calm water.

A little voice in my head kept saying, "You know, in this flat calm glass, you can be in good peligic water in 90 minutes. Go for it!!"

Glad I told the little voice to go away and stop torturing me...

Thanks for the report, no matter how painful...

Mike