Well by the looks of the other reports I am seriously doing something wrong when it comes to stripers. We got a late start (as per usual lately). Headed out of the inlet to test the waters due to the lousy report and found the weatherman asleep at the wheel again.
Figuring it was already late (0900) we decided to hit the wrecks for our hand at seabass/tog. Got there only to find my newly made marker buoy was a little light and didnt hold the structure, making anchoring a PITA and the anchoring was another issue all in itself - I will definitly be making a reef anchor over the winter so this doesn't happen next season.
Anyway, we tried fishing the area only to pull up tons of dogfish. After much disappointment we decided to take the 14 mile or so run to Seaside to see if we could pull some late day stripers. As we were getting there everyone was pulling out and heading north again. We tried a few marks without any luck after a few drifts so, back to MI it was. On the way back we found some bait at the surface but couldn't pull anything out of the mix with AVA's. Outside of MI we found birds working pretty good and marked plenty of fish but, again nothing.
All in all it was a great day to be on the water and working on honing boating and fishin skills.
