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Date: August 30, 2022 Body of Water: Casco Bay - Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent Moon; New Moon plus 3 days Boat: amybaby22 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 6 AM - 8 AM Conditions: Low tide at 7:39 AM. Clear; SW wind about 10 mph and 70 - 80 degrees. Water was green; water temperatures 66 degrees (+/-). What better way to celebrate the start of my 60th year than to go fishing? And what more peaceful way to fish than explore some quiet shoreline with a surface popper? That was the plan, at least for a couple of hours before reporting to work. It was a good plan, too, as three of the first five casts yielded strikes on my squid-colored Hogy popper, resulting in bass of 21 and 23 inches. A few minutes later, a following swirl revealed another group of fish and I caught two more of similar size on three explosive strikes. But when the sun cleared the fog and cloud layer by 6:45 AM, this bite evaporated. But I was already happy with this day. I switched to my 9-weight fly rod with a white foam popper and relaxed. I worked through the same water without raising another fish (heck, I knew fish were present, and on most days, I'd have been fishing from my nearby float during this tide cycle, anyway), but then relocated to Clapboard Island's reef complex at the west end. When I raised nothing here, I simply called it a (good!) day, and then headed in. What do I have to say about this? This is exactly what I wanted. I hadn't caught a topwater fish yet this season (?!?!???!). The sunrise was colorful, I might have been first on the water for the entire bay as far as I could tell, and I recognized that working the popper on the fly rod really maintained my presence. This was good physical and mental practice, and that might pay off when the conditions are a little better for a sustained surface bite. So, here's to Year 60! It's off to an excellent start! Now, as far as the bass are concerned, all my bites came during Quadrant II and away from the shoreline, but oriented to objects in 8 or 10 feet of water. These objects included floats, mooring balls and moored boats. Open water and shoreline edges did not produce any fish. Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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