Left dock little after 6am by myself. Ran between Grape and Slate to Hull Gut. Tried a few casts off of rocks in the gut, nothing.

Then saw a lot of birds and boats in the triangle between  between Georges, Rainsford and Peddocks, so moved over there to with them. Caught a small schooly on 3rd cast (around 6:20am). While fighting him (small so definitively a him…), got boat tangled in lobster pot line. Once I’d released fish and untangled myself from the lobster, I looked around and all the boats had gone. Saw a boat heading out towards Little Brewster / Point Allerton, used the binoculars to see what was going on and saw a number of boats huddled up. I headed that way to see what was up.

Plenty of Birds…

As I approached the boats (near Harding Ledge) at 6:59am, I could see a mass of birds (photo above). Went WOT and got in front of birds and a little upwind. 4th or 5th cast (using my trusty RonZ in bubblegum), I hooked up with a good fish that took a ton of line, only to have him pull hooks. Checked out the lure and it had gotten pretty beaten up between this fish and the earlier one today and others a few weeks back. Switched out the bubblegum for a silver color. Few more cast hooked into a nice fish and ended up with the close to keeper sized fish below (was carefully revived and released very quickly after photo at 7:09am, showing no ill effects).

Nice Fish, one of three that morning!

Few more casts, broke the leader on an another nice fish. Then a quick run to catch up with the pack and caught and released another nice fish about the same size.

Quick run back to dock and home in time to start work.

Stats:

• Date: 13 July 2012 | Start: 6am
• 3 Striped Bass (time – location)
• 6:35am – Georges
• 7:09am – Hardings Ledge
• 7:24am est. – Hardings Ledge
• Lure RonZ #3X6 12Z in Bubblegum / Silver.