| Time Is At Hand... April is almost here. The birds are singing and the buds on the Forsythia are popping and soon, very soon the Herring will be in their runs. Normally, in my area, the Lower Cape, you can find small stripers up the estuaries of Pleasant Bay on the second to third sunny day after Easter. Usually at the narrows between Pochet Island and the mainland. Lately in the past few years the best place is the River Road town landing on an incoming tide about half way up. At the same time many of the inlets on the south coast of the Cape will also have small stripers coming up for the warmer water. When you see a good number of Herring in the runs the bigger fish are here. One good spot, and maybe too well known, is the South Sunken Meadow area near low water. There have been 40 inch stripers taken there in late April and very early May. |