Captain Morgan, The Day, 4/23/09

Captain Morgan reports in his The Day column on an increase in blackfish/tautog action on the walls. Western sound anglers are finding less winter flounder but there is an "increased striped bass activity along the shoreline and in the tidal rivers."

"There’s been a marked increase in baitfish, not only with herring and shad runs but also with a spring run of bunker. Stripers are changing their eating habits by the tide, if not almost by the hour. Some sight fishers are experiencing challenging circumstances whereby ‘linesiders’ are clearly visible on the surface eating everything, but what’s in their bag/box or baitwell. "