Friday's trip was with "My Bonnie" regular, Marc Pfefferle of Carl Marx Associates--and three of his guests. We had a slow start, but after searching for a while we found bluefish and striped bass off of Compo Beach and then had non-stop action for the rest of the charter. On Saturday we had yet another slow start...with close to two hours passing before we found the fish in Westport off of Burying Hill. Aboard were four newcomers, including John Vanderstrict of New Canaan, James Foley of South Salem NY, and brothers Corbin and "Pumpy" Woodhall of Pound Ridge NY. Although the four buddies had to wait a bit before getting into heavy action, nobody complained, and they took home lots of filets for an evening barbecue. Sunday's trip was disappointing to some degree. We had two fathers and sons from Fairfield--David & Tristan Brandt and Fred & Charlie Kieffer, belatedly celebrating Father's Day. We managed a few blues and some short striped bass. Charlie hooked the largest fish on the day--probably a keeper striper--but it got away after a brief a tug-of-war. There were several other hits and misses, but not a banner day for any of us. For the past several days we've been spending a lot of time and fuel traveling to our favorite spots, looking for solid bodies of fish, but it's been a bit frustrating. As we move around from spot to spot we see tons of sand eels, but the predators aren't equally omnipresent. We're not really discouraged, however, because--based on many seasons of experience--we know the fish we're looking for will soon be homing in on the prolific bait schools, and when that happens we'll have non-stop action very close to home for the rest of the summer.