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Cinder Worm Hatch Chronicles

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Cinder Worm Hatch Chronicles This blog contains a few of the 114 hatches that I have found since 2010.   Cinder Worm Hatch #5: (5/11/19)  Today I didn’t feel like going, walking out onto the marsh in the full hot sun.   So I took a nap, and then had an early steak dinner with double-dark chocolate gelato for dessert—that should get me in the mood I thought?   I arrived late which is unusual for me, and then took a slow amble instead of the usual forced march. Upon arrival at 4:15 there were 3 or 4 stripers already swirling.   An hour and a half later, as I was about to leave, there were about 30 fish busting away at the spawning worms.   After I caught and released 27 fish, I made myself stop—the largest was 26-inches.   The bigger fish should arrive just in time for the late-May tide cycle.   Later at home, when I closed my eyes to go to sleep, all I saw was the vivid and animated vision of the rise-form swirls of stripers dancing in my ...