"You Catching?"    II. Late Spring

May 6th

The fluke season started with a bang on Thursday, at least weather-wise with lots of rain, followed by lots of wind on Friday.  Finally on Saturday, when boats could fish reasonably, the fishing actually got started, but it was nothing like last season, when it was red hot with big fish. 

May 13th

The striped bass season opened on Wednesday, and as we all knew, there are bass up the wazoo.

I think that it is now official.  The fishing season in Montauk is off and running, and it is in great shape.

May 21st

This past winter was warmer and much drier than normal, but now it seems like old Mother Nature is in a hurry to average things out.  Last week if it wasn’t cold and windy it was rainy and windy, and the forecast for tonight is a frost warning for the East end.

The weather hasn’t hurt the bass fishing though, except of course when the boats couldn’t get out. 

June 6th

We’ve hit a milestone that indicates summer is almost here: a week of fog.

The fluke fishing is off.  Most of the boats are fishing out in the rips, because that is where most of the action is.  But a lot of that action involves measuring and throwing back shorts.

June 17th

I’m starting to get a little PO’d with old Mother Nature.  Friday started out as a heavily overcast, kind of dreary day, but with not much wind, kind of lulling everyone into a false sense of serenity.  Halfway through the morning we had a nasty easterly with us, right here in the middle of June.  A lot of the boats took a beating coming home.