There's still some fish around.

There are still some fish around.

Um, I feel like it didn't really change anything as far as the albies are concerned.

Like, in our neck of the woods, uh, pre-storm, um, they were really tough to catch, and that still holds true.

[laughs] People are catching, um, but they, y- you really, you really have to put in, uh, many, many casts.

I think people that are having the most success are in the kayaks, where they can be a little more stealth.

Unfortunately, uh, the shore anglers, um, it, the, the fish seem to be sort of just out of reach, so that's been a, a tough season for those folks, for sure.

Mm-hmm.

So I'd like to start off with a report from that trip.

Yeah, so we had family visiting from the West Coast.

And so two of my sons, we went out with my nephew, Will.

And we just went out into Nantucket Sound, kind of bouncing between Craigville and Osterville, and we would see loads of birds just really concentrated, diving, all the things that you want to see when you're going out and you're targeting the albies.

And we casted And pretty much every cast, we would get cocktail size blues.

So we were hoping for albies, but it was a nice little consolation prize because it was every single cast.

We were getting those, you know, three, four pound bluefish that are super fun to catch.

But definitely nothing like rock solid yet and it seems like they might be you know still a little bit ways out it seems

We're kind of in the dog days of summer, but just wanted to give you an opportunity to speak about any other opportunities that your customers might be taking advantage of.

Yeah, so I was talking to my friend Rick who was heading out on the south side this morning and he was going to go through Nantucket Sound and make his way over to the Elizabeths.

We had heard reports that people were catching bonito over there.

So I was hoping he was going to get back to me with some good reports before you and I talked, but I haven't heard back from him.

So either he's in the thick of it and is too busy having fun catching those bonito, or he's on the hunt and hasn't had any luck yet.

So, Maybe I'll shoot you a text later if he does find any.

But it is that time of year.

Last but not least, anything that you would like to tell the MyFishingCapeCod audience about going on at Sportsport? Anything exciting? Anything new? Anything at all?

Um, you know, give us an overarching striper report, if you will.

Yeah.

So if we start on the South side, um, You know, I just mentioned my friend Ben.

He also works at the shop with me and he runs his charters.

So he's been out on the water pretty much every day that the weather has allowed.

And he's been fishing all over the south side, basically.

And what he found was in the rips of Vineyard Sound, he's been finding some slot-sized bass.

That's really encouraging to hear.