Spring has sprung. We had a ten day vacation in the Caribbean. We took our annual trip to New Brunswick for salmon. Both trips were pretty successful and now its time to think about getting the boat in the water. I am already booking trips for this season so there is a little incentive there. I’ll be uncovering the boat in the next few days and three days later it should be floating. There are reports of the first schoolie bass arriving locally. I’ve got a few new ideas for different things to do so it should be interesting. Stay tuned.

Thursday brought Mike and Mike back out for a go at whatever we could find. We started out with a bunch of small bluefish and after a half dozen or so caused us to change locations to try to find some bass. We started checking spots that held fish earlier in the week. We were working the second stop when a nice sized school of fish popped up for the guys to double up. A little while later Mike hooked a larger bass and then they left for parts unknown. The next couple of stops were empty but we did find an area loaded with bait. We hung around a bit until the bass found them. Unfortunately they were baby bass so we left them to grow a bit larger. W got a call from one of the Montauk Guides that was on our side of the Sound and he had found some albies. That shows you how good Montauk is at the moment. We moved and Mike picked up our first albie of the day. In a period of about ten minutes the wind came up from zero to twenty and the sea from flat to two to three footers. We left to head home and halfway back Mike picked up his second albie when a school came up right in front of us. Today was a bit of a challenge but the guys got it done.

I had an afternoon trip Friday with Minor and Brad who made the trip up from NY to get a shot at some albies. We found the3m where I had left them earlier and they were still fussy. After a bit Minor hooked up and our day improved. Brad pulled a blue out of a pod of albies and after a move Minor was able to grab a couple more albies.