Still fishing...

I've participated in Midcoast Maine Dawn Whack A Mole Tournament the last 2 days. Yesterday I started too early, hitting the water at 04:00, only to discover that the game didn't start until 05:15. Today I hit the boat at 05:10 just as the sun was coming up, and was greeted with multiple feeding striper pods as soon as I turned the corner into the harbor. Got bored after an hour and 7 fish and headed back to the barn.


Good Morning from the Roccus Dock...

Also did my bi-monthly inshore cod C&R scouting run yesterday afternoon as the water was totally flat. Back in May I discovered two new humps just outside the bay and wanted to see if there were cod on it. Got out there and I was delighted to see the sounder light up with cod ready to jump on our jigs. They were eating well as I unhooked them they were tossing up macks, cunners, squid and herring. My distinguished colleague and I caught around a dozen, with 4 of them > 21", definite keepers come mid-September.

Small macks were thick on these humps, too bad I'm not a bait drowner, they were real striper candy-sized. Ocean fauna very plentiful. Besides the usual suspects like seals and harbor porpoises, we saw a Minke Whale at a distance, some Wilson's Storm Petrels, and the season's first Mola Mola. Lovely to get out on the briny...

Your pics are awesome, mind if I use them as backgrounds on my pc?

Your pics are awesome, mind if I use them as backgrounds on my pc?

Dawn on the easternmost coast....

Feel free, thanks for the compliment...



Not quite, my sunrise in my hometown today is 5:09 while Lubec and Eastport, the most "Downeast" towns, is 04:55...

That reminds me, I need to get saddled up for this morning's trip to the Boardwalk and my Whack A Bass game...