On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:12:24 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

One question that continues to bug me after returning from our 16 days
on the boat this month...."Where was everybody?"

Scot and I went out to The Race yesterday and there were maybe four
boats total in the immediate area - as in within a mile radius of
where we were. Only a couple at Watch Hill Light and when we ran back
to The Race to bounce lures off the bottom, only a couple of head
boats.

That, my friend, is very unusual for a Thursday before Labor Day.
Usually there are wall-to-wall boats - in particular at Ebb Tide at
The Race.

The radio was quiet too. A couple of guys working the break outside
of Fisher's Island - thousand yards from were we were were talking a
lot, but no heavy marina traffic or commercial traffic. There was
nothing between us and Block Island when we were at Fisher's either.

You're right - it was unusual.