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Date: October 1, 2022 Body of Water: Casco Bay - Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent Moon; New plus 6 days Boat: amybaby22 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 9 AM - 3:30 PM Conditions: Low tide at 9:19 AM. Mostly cloudy; inconsequential northerly breeze and 45 - 60 degrees. Water continues to clear; water temperature 55 degrees (+/-). A day with perhaps perfect conditions for fishing and fish willing to play; I enjoyed a very pleasant and productive session! I quickly located mackerel in the deep water of Hussey Sound. It took a couple of minutes for my trolled Sabiki to find them, and I briefly lost touch with and quickly relocated the school. In the end, I put 26 baits in the well in 25 minutes. Once I was in contact, I was able to simply vertically drop the rig and the macks would intercept it in the top 30 feet. It was my kind of bait session; efficient, productive and fun! I took my well full of baits to the eastern shoreline of Peaks Island. I selected my stretch base on availability of some limited white-wash. I never strayed far from the area around Elm Tree and Wharf Coves. Prominent rocky points were hot at first during the beginning of the flood, and then the coves themselves had plenty of biting bass as the tide level increased. Every bait got attacked, and a few recycled baits got eaten multiple times. The bite was intense between 10 AM and Noon (beginning of flood); these were the better fish of the day, too. After a lull around mid-flood, the bite resumed until I ran out of bait at 3 PM (end of flood). These were mostly smaller fish, but I ended with a fat and beautiful 27-incher. I landed 17 stripers, pulled the hooks from a couple and had a few baits plucked or crushed on a turned hook. These ranged from 21 to 31 inches, included two "keepers" over 28 inches, with another half dozen or more over 26 inches. Most came from close to rocky ambush points, and I was able to maneuver very close to the rocks with the calm winds. The small coves held fish as the tide increased. A couple of season milestones crossed the gunwales during a busy day, including amybaby22's 100th striper of the season and 600th striper since my ownership. Seventeen stripers landed in a single session also represents a personal best on my boats in Maine. It was a good day! What do I have to say about this? Not too hot, not too sunny, and just enough breeze to ruffle the water but not cause issues with boat control. Quick and available bait, and hungry bass on the verge of leaving for the winter; conditions converged nicely! It was nice to return and find some bass waiting for me. I fished pretty well, and this performance brought a revised goal of 200 Stripers landed for the season within grasp. My numbers are down, but with a chance at 200 stripers landed and the improved quality of this year's fish, nobody could argue that it hasn't been a fine season. Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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