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Date: July 29, 2023 Body of Water: Casco Bay - Maine Boat: amybaby22 With: Alone Target: Striped Bass Time: 8 AM - Noon Moon Phase: Full minus three days; waxing gibbous moon Tide: High tide at about 8:40 AM Conditions: Mostly clear, hot and sticky. Overnight lows in the 70s and PM thunderstorms on the way. Water temperatures 72 at the dock, 63 - 65 degrees (+/-) at the mouth of Hussey Sound and 68 - 70 in most of my portion of Casco Bay. The days of sleeping in, ignoring clock and tide while still enjoying easy success on Casco Bay are over, at least temporarily. The water is "hot" and mackerel have dramatically thinned out, while bunker have disappeared. Still, I launched into the teeth of a mid-morning high tide under clear skies and gave it my best. Condensed version; I managed only two single mackerel from 115 feet of water in outer Hussey Sound. Each came in as a single with no followers. I pretty quickly converted each of these into a solid bass bite in the white-wash of Peak's exposed shoreline, but did not connect with either fish. I switched to "Spot-Lock and Chunk" mode in this same area with the frozen mackerel I had brought along in case the bite was slow. I quickly became sea-sick with the close work of chunking and drifting while "anchored". I retreated further into Hussey and set up off a point of Crow Island. Still queasy, I retreated even further into the bay and set up in a protected cove off Clapboard Island (W). Whether it was the day, my spot selection or the quality of the bait (quite soft after a month in the freezer), I never got a take despite my fairly generous chumming. Summer has arrived in full force, and I limped home; hot, sweaty and tired. What do I have to say about this? This is not unexpected and happens every year. I usually counteract with very early morning worming, and I can resort to this if I choose with the pending Full Moon. Finally, Sea Sickness sucks! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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