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Date: September 30, 2019 Body of Water: Green Pond Outlet, Falmouth, Massachusetts Boat: Maritime Skiff 1480 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass and Bluefish Time: 3 - 5 PM Conditions: Sunny, northerly wind, ongoing tide After a pleasant drive from Michigan and a weekend with A. in eastern Massachusetts, I headed up Route 95 towards my boat in Maine. Surprisingly, I encountered the worst traffic of the trip in Southern Maine, but by 9:30 AM or so, I was in Falmouth, Maine, collecting my skiff. After dusting her off, checking her road readiness and double-checking that I had everything I needed, I reversed course down Route 95, through Boston, to Falmouth, Massachusetts. By the time I arrived, I'd already had a full day! I chose to go to Green Pond for the first time because of limited time for fishing, and thinking that the pretty brisk northerly winds would be at my back, making access to the Cape's south side possible. The ramp was a dream, and by 3 PM, I was motoring towards the outlet. When I saw a couple of aggressive pops on the surface of the pond's southwest corner, I redirected my course and eased into the shallows. My first cast of the trip (with my trusty Smack-it Jr. popper) was engulfed by an aggressive striper! I caught a twin, topwater schoolie bass shortly thereafter, but with time short and the bite not exactly furious, I abandoned the pond and exited with the outgoing tide. It didn't take long at all for a smallish, natural-colored Hogy epoxy jig to get intercepted. When the fish jumped, I knew it was my first blue of the season. As it turned out, the two-pound blues (tailors) were in pretty thick, and I enjoyed productive catch-and-release fishing for these feisty, yellow-eyed devils for 45 minutes or so. They seemed to prefer a slower cadence and often hit on the fall. They also seemed to like 1/8-ounce jigs with 3.5-inch, whitish paddle tail grubs, too. This was all fun, light-tackle fishing! With a bunch of fish under my belt and given good conditions for navigation, I decided to explore other water. The run east to Waquoit was only six minutes, and I found the blues to be just as willing to bite here as they were at Green Pond. I ended this short session with two bass and 15 blues. This was, in theory, Day 1 of a trip devoted to chasing false albacore, but I wanted to take advantage of any opportunities that presented themselves. With no birds or topwater frenzies noticed on the oceanside, I was very content to simply enjoy the beautiful afternoon and the welcomed company of the bass and blues. What do I have to say about this? This offered a great start to the trip. The day had gone virtually trouble-free, and I'd caught a bunch of fish, all of which pulled drag on my suitably light tackle. I still had several days to chase funny fish ahead of me; all was good! Simple observations had led me to the fish. Had I not been scouting for birds and/or surface activity, I could have easily driven past the bass. And by targeting foam lines, current seams and barely discernible surface disturbances during the outgoing tide, my bluefishing might not have been as productive. I'd visited new waters, paid attention, and enjoyed some modest success. It really was a good day; and an excellent steak dinner with a couple of cold ones still awaited me at Uncle M.'s house! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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