We launched in Plymouth at the civil hour of 6:00AM. We were over by P-Town by 6:45. Conditions were flat calm with a light E breeze. Like Thursday, there was a ton of bait in the water, and hundreds of gannets, gulls, terns and shears wheeling and diving in about 50 feet of water. We were marking a few fish but not like the other day. The tide was slack and we waited for it to start moving, catching an occasional fish, but nothing over 34". Things remained slow for a few hours so we decided to check out Stellwagen. We set off for the bank leaving biting fish behind (I know, never leave fish to find fish) . About half way there we crossed paths with Capt Mike Matthews. I hailed him on the radio and he told us he had been on the bank trolling but things were slow and not to waste our time. Thanks for the info Mike.
We decided to have some lunch and then headed back to our original spot. When we arrived there were five or six boats working a mile or so of diving birds. We decided to try some jigs. We landed a few fish in the 30"-32" range. We were marking some big fish, I dropped the spro jig to the bottom, lifted the rod tip a few times and felt the fish inhale my jig. I set the hook and held on as the fish went on a hard run. This was a much bigger fish than we had been catching. There wee a few more hard runs before the fish turned and swam toward the boat. I got a good look at the fish as it came up. It was a corker! When the big striper saw the boat it made a bee line for the bottom, peeling off 30 yards of line in short order. I worked the fish slowly back to the surface and it was soon in the net. A nice fat 42" 25 lb+ cow. This is my biggest fish so far this season!
We jigged for a little while longer but a threatening weather front chased us back to the dock earlier than we had originally planned.
All in all a good day but not the numbers we had Thursday. If we had not left to check out the bank and had to run home early, I know we would have caught a few more slobs.
