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Date: September 6, 2021 Body of Water: Casco Bay, Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: New Moon minus one day; waning crescent moon Tides: Low Tide at 5:13 AM; just about all Quadrant III Boat: Shore fishing from landing float before switching to amybaby22 at about 6:30 AM With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 5:00 AM - 10:15 AM Conditions: Cloudy and about 60 degrees F; light wind; water temperatures about 63 +/- The session started quickly, with just about a bite on every cast as I presented blood-worms beneath slip floats in the darkness. I landed six stripers from 16 to 21 inches (and missed a bunch of bites and donated too many worms) by 6 AM or so. With the increasing light levels, I also introduced a free-lined mackerel tail chunk. That bait produced the best shore bass of the morning at about 24 inches. With the bite on the wane and only a few worms left, I switched to trolling the tube-and-worm from amybaby22 along my favored stretch of shoreline. With about 50-55 feet of line out and going as slowly as possible with the east-bound current, I marked a fair number of fish and lost my worm to some peckish nibbles. I rebaited and reset my pass through the same mark in about 13 feet of water. This time, the fish hit violently. At 26 inches, this was my largest tube bass of the season. I relocated my tube-and-last-worm to York Ledge. I fished over some nice marks, but never got bit, here. By 7:45, I was trying to make bait in 55 feet of water of Clapboard Island's east end. Once I found my first mac by trolling, the rest came easy by simple vertical jigging. I had 20 baits in the well just a few minutes after 8 AM. I moved to the island's steep and rocky east end. In an hour, I generated just one bite from about 20 feet of water; this bass was small for a mackerel-eater at 22 inches. I relocated to the island's west end, where my baits were frightened, active and nervous, but never eaten. I finished my session with live-lined mackerel drifted over York Ledge, where I came up empty again. Oh well, I had plenty of mackerel to freeze for future use. By 10:15 AM, I was done for the day! What do I have to say about this? Clapboard was "off" and I had neither the time nor the engine performance to go elsewhere. With nine bass on four techniques, I'd still put together a good session. And I had plenty of time to enjoy the rest of the day, too! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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