Saturday, took Tate out of a spin in Hull bay, lots of birds, no fish. Spent the rest of the day cleaning and waxing the boat.

Sunday, went out a little early by myself. Covered all of Boston harbor, some birds no fish.

Monday went out early with Chris & Jono, and caught my first fish of the season.

We started out from Quincy Bay marina, didn’t see any pogies. Went to rips at Deer Island light. We fished close to the light on an out going tide.

First pass Chris hooks up with a black plastic eel like thing, then Jono hooks up with a similar white plastic. Nothing for me.

Next pass similar thing, no bites for me.

I should come clean at this point and mention I’d brought the wrong rod. For some reason which at 4 in the morning had made sense to me I thought I needed the heavy spinning rod. They had both brought light tackle. I switched up to a medium pink RonZ, my go to, still nothing. I then tried a black and silver eel from Hogy. Finally was on the board! I’m not sure if it was the 50 leader or the size and shape of the luhr or it’s color but something was spooking the fish.

After than we did a cruise around Hull, Hingham, Fore River Bridge and back up to Fort Point, where we finally saw a ton of boats! We didn’t see any pogies, so jigged what we had, after about 20 mins Jono and I took a break to watch Chris. He had found some eel oil that he put on the luhr while both us made fun of it, he went back to jigging the black jig off the bottom. A few minutes later he had a great fish, much bigger than slot on and to the boat.

Shortly after this we spotted some splashing and snagged a couple of pogies that went back down on circle hooks. Chris missed his, but Jono got his one and landed another nice fish.

A great day and a good number of fish given no top water action.

Jig fish…