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Date: May 21, 2022 Body of Water: Casco Bay - Falmouth, Maine Moon Phase: Full Moon plus five days; waning gibbous moon Boat: amybaby22 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 10:15 AM - 2:15 PM Conditions: Low tide at 10:10 AM; flood tide throughout the session. Fog and high foggy ceiling; calm south wind and about 55 - 60 degrees. Water was clear but green, with visibility well over 5 feet. Water temperatures 51 - 54 Reports indicate stripers have arrived; I have good intel from rivers east and west. But with a locally favorable tide at my season's starting point, I decided to stick close and start my Maine 2022 Striper Season along the familiar Falmouth Foreside shoreline. Armed with some blood-worms, I trolled a tube-and-worm slowly while scouting for signs of fish or bait. Unfortunately, I found none, and so after a couple of passes between Handy's and the mouth of Mussel Cove, I relocated to Princes Point. I added a small white swim-bait and a white fluke to my efforts, but still struggled to find any evidence of fish. I finished my search at each end of Clapboard Island. The west end, especially, looked good with some sand/gravel beaches and current seams with the flooding tide. But when bass aren't there... they just aren't there! I was surprised to start my season with a skunk, but decided to try new water the next day. What do I have to say about this? If the bass were concentrating on river-run herring, I could understand my skunk. Still, I had expected to at least encounter some scouts. But, I also knew that conditions could change with any tide at this point of the season. And so they did, at least to a small degree. Neighbor Dave V. scored several bass from the landing later this same evening on suspended sand-worms during a locally unfavorable tide. Overall, I was still pleased to have amybaby22 moored, the Portland Pudgy dinghy launched, no known problems and the entire Maine Striper Season in front of me. I could take this skunk in stride! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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