A lot of my anglers ask how the fishing is in the fall. My answer is that its like eating a doughnut. Sometimes you get the doughnut and some days you get the hole. Today Dr. Jeff made the long and dangerous drive up Rt. 95 and he not only got a doughnut but he got the whole box of them. He started on his first cast when he hooked up right away. I told him that was often bad luck to catch a fish that quickly. He promptly lost that one to get us in the game. He hooked up on his next cast and I told him that was ok to catch, so he did. It stayed that way pretty much all trip. we did move around when things slowed only to find more bass to about eight pounds. Not a bad day to be on the water. I’ll be in until at least Nov. 1st.

This morning brought Doc C. down to find 48 degree temps and a bit of a breeze. It had been pouring rain up to just before our departure time. Shortly after that there wasn’t a cloud in the sky as a cold front dropped on us. We found lots of fish that were happy just to be swimming along. The bait was there and there were a few very brief flurries of activity. We did manage to get one nice striper to eat a fly. I only saw one other fish taken by another boat. Tomorrow is another day.

Bob came back for day two this morning. We headed out to where they were yesterday but nobody was home. we got an encouraging call that lead us to a good bunch of widely scattered bass. Bob struck quickly and we had our first of the day on board. That dried up so we went off to see what we could find. For the next five hours we were into steady fishing. Bob put a bunch of 8 to 10 lb. bass into the net. With an hour to go our friends the albies showed in good numbers. But exhibiting their usual behavior they didn’t want to play.Tons of bait coming through so the next few weeks should be pretty good.

Today old friend Gary brought his buddy Scott up the ever dangerous Rt, 95. The plan was to start with some bass and finish with albies. The first part worked the second not so much. wWe found the bass in shallow water and both guys had fish in the boat in short order. The fish moved off and so did we. We found more on a mud flat right up against the bank in less that two feet of water.Bass fight pretty good when they are in yhe shallows.We had a lot of laughs catching them in close..The sun got higher and we left for part B. We looked but no joy came to us in the shape of albies. Before we finished we headed back to the area of our earlier success. We added a few more bass to the total and called it a day.

This week started with Dave and Aiden for a father son trip. The wind was still up so we went back to yesterdays place of activity. We found the fish close to where they were and put a few in the boat pretty quickly. We moved around and had a steady bite. Aiden brought a fish to the boat that was in the 20 lb. class. It made one last effort to escape and ended up breaking the hook.That was a good fish.

Tuesday brought Scott back and even though the wind had slowed we opted to stay local. Scott nailed a good 12 pounder fairly quickly to start. For some reason the bass would not co operate today. We had a little activity but the majority of the fish had lock jaw.The area is still loaded with bait and the water temps are still up there. I will be off tomorrow and be back at it on Thursday

Our friends Simon and David from across the pond have returned to spend some time in the boat with us. They missed the past two years because of the pandemic but are now back in business. Both guys can throw a good fly and are just as good with a spin rod. The wind was up so we opted for some striper action. They started with fly rods and after a few hours switched over. I don’t know how many they caught but I had to put a glove on because of striper thumb. It was the best day in 10 years. Lots of laughs a lesson on the UK and solid fishing.