Bait and more bait

Its been a pretty tough summer so far. The water temps have kept the stripers out in cooler water. The squid run hasn't been anything to get excited about. Last week we started seeing an influx of baby bunker and silversides. There were some schools of bait over one hundred yards long. This week we saw quite a few schools of medium sized blues chasing bait in a broad area. Also last week a couple of bonito were taken from schools of blues. This is pretty typical behavior on their part. There are always a few fish showing up earlier than usual. In the next couple of weeks they should appear in fishable numbers.