It was a one and done outing yesterday morning. I have to say it was pleasant when I got down there around 6 am. There wasn't much for water around between the dropping river, now 10,400 cfs, and the dropping tide which was low around 815 am. But I was glad to find one, get a good pic, have it hang in the tank, and let it go.
Then Mother Nature fired up the oven, and half of the people in the United States got cooked. It was miserable, and the humidity could choke a horse. And it doesn't look like it's
going to break until Thursday when the rains come and the temps will be in the 70's. But you know the rains we'll get, a tsunami, like 10 inches in two hours with 100 mph winds. Great. That'll mean the power will be off again and more tree limbs down in the yard.
By the evening a quick check of the river shows temps up to 78 degrees from 73 when I was out in the morning. I have to say I would have liked to measure it where I was because it definitely felt cooler. I'd like to say 66 degrees is my upper limit for fishing for striped bass in the river, so the next few days will be off limits, might be time to travel east and hit the salt for the first time in 2025.
But as far as flows go something interesting happened between last night, when I penned a draft, and this morning just before this post went to print. I went and checked the USGS website
and overnight the flows have nearly doubled from just over 10,000 cfs to just under 20,000 cfs. I know they're releasing more water out of Cannonsville Reservoir in Deposit and from the Francis E. Walter Dam on the Lehigh Walter More water is great, but it didn't budge the temps all that much. It's still very warm.
Not wanting to be done I took a long walk near home to check and see if there were any bass in the faster and shaded water. It was a good idea, well not really, as no one was home.
I did set the hook on a log but was able to roll cast the fly free which made my day because I haven't had to change it since coming back from the Vineyard. I has good mojo.
And in bunker news the Menhaden Defenders blasted out that the bunker boats coupled with their spotter plans are back again this year. Bunker = Bass, and whales, and birds, and just about everything. Bunker, menhaden, ponies, whatever you call them, have more value swimming in the ocean than ground up for pet food or for your supplements. You want them, catch them yourself, put them on the barbie, and you and Fido can all the nutritional value you want from them. Enjoy.
In the top image you can see the the five Omega Protein ships making their way north and below the flight path of the spotter plane which took off from Wall Executive Airport and went looking for large schools of bunker. He then lets the boats know and the netting begins.
