———Today Tom and I had the Roosters out looking for Striped Bass. This was a shakedown ride with a little fishing included. Did a little trolling with metals outside Belford harbor while marking fish, went on anchor with clams while I worked some metal.Without any bite and party boats moving around we decided to try out on the beach where we found two clam boats really close to the beach working their dredges. We had the beach to ourselves. Fishing with clams we came up empty and headed back to the harbor for lunch. Pete