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Date: June 4, 2022 Body of Water: Casco Bay - Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: New Moon plus 6 days; waxing crescent moon Boat: amybaby22 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 1 PM - 4:20 PM Conditions: High tide at 3:35 PM. Generally clear; Southerly wind in excess of 10 mph and 55 - 60 degrees. Water was clear but green; water temperatures around 59 degrees. Any benefits of my recent vacation have been seemingly erased. After a hectic week and a morning of work, I needed to take it easy. I focused on simply casting a Clouser Minnow to the edges of visible rocks and weeds. A stiff southerly breeze affected both my casting and my drift. I tucked behind Clapboard Island. Pretty early into this endeavor, a striper revealed itself and chased my fly in just a couple of feet of water. Despite the brightening afternoon skies, I wasn't totally crazy in my modest expectation of a fish. That was it for Clapboard, despite my persistent casting at both ends of the island. So I decided to catch the end of the flood and slack high in Mussel Cove. The wind pushed me up the cove as I casted to known cover and deeper holes. I was about as far up Mill Creek as possible when my line tightened and I connected with a good fish. It turned out to be a really nice fish for such tight quarters, and at 28 inches, my new Personal Best for stripers on the fly! This had gone down at the approximate end of high slack tide; but the persistent wind up the axis of the cove was perhaps maintaining the water height and delaying the ebb. After another pass through this water, I worked my way out of the cove without another sign of fish. I was somewhat surprised by that; and so I dredged some known haunts with a swim-bait, just to make sure I hadn't missed any fish. Nobody answered, so I guess I confirmed to myself that nobody was home at this time. With only a single hook-up for the session, I still left pretty satisfied. What do I have to say about this? My casting has significantly improved. I'm glad I spent so much time on the lawn practicing over the course of the fall and winter. I still need some help with my line management. I never got this fish on the reel, but instead fought it by stripping. I didn't want to provide any slack, and I didn't trust myself to successfully transfer the line to the reel during the fight. I'll keep working on it. This lone strike of the day also came on a cast where I gave the fly extra time to sink. Maybe that had made a difference. It didn't matter for the rest of the day. However, I have tucked some sinking tips into my boat box, just in case. Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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