Tom Carter sent over this report today: "Hey Willy, here's our grandson, Ezra Rock, with his two stripers from the bar and sand point on our first day fishing this year, I guess we'll go again tomorrow!" Now, before you get excited, thinking that the bite is wide open, just know that Ezra is kind of a badass and your experience may by different. Ezra also caught a shark. The other two people in the boat had no bites. Most of the other boats had similar, no bites, reports. One boat caught three halibut by Marshall; another had three hookups of possible thresher sharks in the Outer Bay (possible because they all broke off 30lb leaders: could be anything, but one wonders), a striper and one halibut caught at the last minute while waiting for a pullout. A couple of boats went out and bounced around and caught some rockfish. But Ezra caught two nice stripers on relatively flat water and was back in pretty quick Stripers are fun. I'm going to guess that fishing with Ezra is like fishing with Gage, but with less hooting and hollering. Gage caught one striper this evening and his whooping was.....distracting. 

    I'd rather fish with Ezra.