The bass fishing around the Island continues to be excellent. Over the past few days we have been catching fish up to 30 lbs , see picture below, on light tackle spin gear and have been getting a bunch on fly as well. Fred Schreiber hooked into this beauty yesterday and battled it for quite awhile on light gear. After a few snapshots we revived her and sent her on her way.

The shore fishing was hot for awhile but seems too have cooled a bit...at least for me. The NE or E wind we have constantly had this spring have made conditions tough on a lot of nights. Lobsterville was fishing well 10 or 12 days ago and hopefully will again next week or I have a buddy coming here that will be bullshit. Chappy was hot too. I saved up enough money to take the ferry over the one night the wind was out of the SW and ended up with a 39 incher and a 37 incher using a swimmer. It was fun but it pales in comparsing to what the boats are seeing. Unlike last year the rips have been fishing well too with squid fleeing for their lives.

This may go down as the coldest and most damp June ever on MV. The sun has only been out a handful of times and I don't think the temp has hit 70 yet. So if you are coming to fish you better bring your fall gear. It feels and looks like October. Bring plenty of fleece. Now that I saw that it'll probably be 80 in a few days but I'm not counting on it. As long as the fishing is great I don't care what the weather is. The water temps are staying cooler so this may prolong our spring action. Even my son Jack is getting in on the action in between school and Minor League Baseball. Let's hope this continues for awhile!