[CHEVY1]

Thursday afternoon I was driving along the shoreline in Poquat( N.setauket). The tide was very low and a 1/2 doz. seagulls where swimming in about one or two Ft. of water. Then they would fly-upward about 2 feet and dive under the water and pull up a tasty treat.
They were not clams, they were very dark and soft bodied looked about 3 inches.
I was thinking maybe sandworms, anyone have any idea?

 

[bass28]

not sure but cinder worm hatch?

 

[snapperman]

sandworms. saw the sam thing you did as i was walking my dog and went down to investigate. saw over 20 worms swimmin in the water. looks like its gunna be an early season.

 

[fish4me]

I'm leaning towards sandworms too.

 

[CHEVY1]

snapperman wrote:
sandworms. saw the sam thing you did as i was walking my dog and went down to investigate. saw over 20 worms swimmin in the water. looks like its gunna be an early season.


Thanks. I never saw worms actually swimming, only found them while digging, how often do they come out and for how long? Is it just a short spawn type thing?

 

[snapperman]

in setauket and port jeff harbors they are usually in the sand like you said. in march and april they are commonly found swimming around on the surface and are a good early season forage for bass and are usually the first baits that i start with when targeting bass in the spring.

 

[Onemoredrift]

CHEVY1 wrote:
Thursday afternoon I was driving along the shoreline in Poquat( N.setauket). The tide was very low and a 1/2 doz. seagulls where swimming in about one or two Ft. of water. Then they would fly-upward about 2 feet and dive under the water and pull up a tasty treat.
They were not clams, they were very dark and soft bodied looked about 3 inches.
I was thinking maybe sandworms, anyone have any idea?

Great news, I love to here stuff like this. Spearing! Sandworms! Herring! We might just have an incredible start to openning Bass season. 37 more days!

I think with the mild winter we are going to be into some hot fishing early in the season.

 

[AQUAHOLIC1]

sandworms

is what they were

I saw the same thing and took a closer look

spring is springing