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Date: August 16, 2021 Body of Water: Casco Bay, Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: Full Moon minus six days; waning gibbous moon Tides: High Tide at 6:04 PM Boat: amybaby22 With: A Target: Striped Bass Time: 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM Conditions: Clear and about 75 degrees F with a persistent southerly sea breeze; water temperatures 61 - 63 in Hussey, but up to 68 inshore What a beautiful day! Why not squeeze in a post-work floating picnic and fishing session? My plan was to make bait, quick, and use whatever time I had left to entice a couple of bass to eat for A. With the southerly head-wind, it was a longer than expected haul to Onset Island. With high slack tide, I was hoping the structure here would keep some bait in the area, and I had two rods newly rigged with heavier fluoro leaders and poppers in case the blues showed themselves again. No life was evident, and there was little water movement, but somehow I stopped right on top of the mackerel. These were biting eagerly in the top 25 feet of water, and by 6:15 I had a dozen in the well and a couple behind the boat off College Island. The macs were nervous, but we had only a single run on the rocky structure of the island's northwest corner. A smallish bass ate my mackerel on top. When I tightened up, the bait pulled out; ten seconds later a bass engulfed my bait again. I missed this one, too, and retrieved my bait to find the hook just barely buried in the bait. Oh well, perfection be damned! We spent a few more minutes here, but we were battling weeds and nothing else showed, so we moved to the south shore of Cow Island. Here, the weeds were even worse, and nothing happened in our single pass. We had a much smoother ride home. I unloaded the boat at the float and reached my mooring just as the Portland Yacht Club's cannon announced sunset. I'd forgotten to eat, but it had been a pleasant evening! What do I have to say about this? Maine's summer nights are dwindling in duration and number. I'm glad we tried to take advantage of this beauty! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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