Maine Vacation Day 4

 Day 4 Beachin-it

Today I went with a long-time friend to fish along the beach in search of some stripers. The tide we would elect to fish was the outgoing tide.

Here the bait would be funneling out to sea and hopefully the fish, if any in the area would key in on it.

I brought my eggbeater, and my friend would bring his fly rod. We will cover the column from top to bottom and near and far from the shoreline.

If stripers were present, I thought we stood at a decent chance of hooking into one or two.

The wind gusts were still problematic and still at a stiff 10 – 15 mpg. With a bug rod and 400 grain full sinking line this is not an easy feat.

The eggbeater that I was using was doing ok with making bombing casts and covering the water. With all that we had going for us we did not hook into any stripers.

I saw juvenile mackerel in a small bait ribbon along the shoreline. I saw this as a huge plus. It was a sign I thought that predators might be in the area and trying to chase and eat them.

After two hours of casting and trying our hardest to redefine the meaning of insanity we broke our rods down and decided to call it a day.