I am planning on putting the boat in next week. I am hoping for an early start to fishing season in the upper bay. With the warm weather and quickly rising water temps we may have it. I heard a report of a few pogies being spotted in the bay. The earliest I can remember pogies and 20lb + fish in the upper bay was May 7th. but that was a while ago. We had a good season last year similar to what it used to be years ago. Plenty of bait and fish. Hopefully, we will have again this year.
Nothing unusual or different about this year. Everyone wants to rush in the season just like I do, but its about a week or two early for anything exciting to be happening. There are pogies here already, and the spotter plane reported a few massive schools making there way towards us and points north. Lots of herring around and about as well, but off limits again for 2008. Sporadic schoolie action in the corners of the beaches in Newport, as well as decent reports of the little guys around West Wall and the ponds.
Every year I try and convince myself that things will happen sooner rather than later, but usually I get over anxious, then downright gloomy, sometimes outright ornery, then all of a sudden it just happens.(This is usually in the span of less than one week, always right around April 20th, LOL)
The squid should arrive anyday now, but wait until May 1st through Mother's Day, best bet for the hot bite. Despite the reports of squid at the causeway, there are no ink stains anywhere on the bridge, and I have driven by everyday this week, hoping against odds they show early
The stripers will be here usual time, second week of May, with a random decent keeper showing up before that here and there along the bay or down south county way.
What is a bummer is the tog are just not chewing yet. I put in a few days of effort last week with nada for my efforts. The dandelions are getting thicker, and with the warm temps the last few days, they should put the feed bag on any day now. Its just about here...Water temps just now creeping over 50 throughout, with colder pockets here and there.
An old timer I know has this saying, "In the spring, heres the thing, when the bay hits 55, fishing comes alive"...pretty accurate little rhyme...
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