We had another weekend washout with clouds and cool temperatures, but this time the weather didn’t stop the fish from biting.

Striped bass moved north of Billingsgate Shoals and smack into our back yard, as they were found at the cottages off Beach Point, at the Twin Hills just past Long Point, and all the way from Wood End Light to off the Herring Cove bathhouse. Fresh bait such as cut mackerel or even whole live mackerel seemed to do better than casting plugs, but trolling umbrella rigs worked as well. Vertical jigging using an Ava diamond jig with a green tail was also a good plan of attack.

The fish were of varied sizes, with some keeper-size slot fish, but many were too big to keep.

Our water temperatures have finally climbed to the levels we expect for June, with the bay in the mid to upper 60s. But the backside ocean temperatures are still in the mid 50s.

Mackerel have left the harbor and even the bay for now. Last year, when they left harbor and bay, they shot up to Stellwagen Bank and stayed there all summer. It’s hard to say what this year will bring.

I am getting reports of some scattered bluefish catches in the bay, and there are more substantial catches off Falmouth and Cotuit, so we will see what this higher water temperature does to their movements toward our waters.

What has been consistently good and remains so is flounder fishing down in the south end of the bay by Sesuit Harbor and the number-one can along the south end of Billingsgate Shoals. The magic number for them has been 30- to 40-foot depths and using sand worms. No word on fluke yet, but I am getting ready to do a reconnaissance trip.

In the continuing saga of warm-water marine animals moving north into our warming seas, a bottlenose dolphin was observed on a Dolphin Fleet whale watch boat this past week. These are larger dolphins — the ones you typically see at the shows in places like Sea World. They are extremely intelligent.

I’m interested to know whether this will be the beginning of a trend. We get plenty of white-sided dolphins around here, and as a matter of fact we saw about 50 of them in Provincetown Harbor while inbound on the CeeJay the other day. But bottlenose dolphins are a different breed. They do not have cold water tolerance and avoid surface water under 50 degrees. They don’t travel in big pods like the white-sided dolphins do, and individuals are often seen.

Having bottlenose dolphins cruising around Provincetown Harbor would certainly change the appearance of the harbor and make it look more like Florida or the Carolinas, where there are plenty of them. As Bob Dylan sang in the 1960s, “the times they are a-changin’.”