View Full Version : MENHADEN ARE BACK


staltershoal
06-13-2005, 08:18 PM
no locations but the menhaden are around in huge schools.....its great to see them again. i thought they were gonna be lost cause like going for cod anywhere off the vineyard...lol

Pt.JudeJoe
06-13-2005, 09:13 PM
I got a report that there were some pogies off the east side of Block Island today.There are a lot of them in the upper bay and there are big bass on them . I know some boatniks that are doing well up there ....but the water is getting hot there. Too hot for bassies to hang out in. Oh yes ,too hot and they will be moving back down the bay to your favorite secret spot soon. :happy: :happy: :happy:

eelman
06-14-2005, 12:42 AM
:kewl: :kewl: :hihi:

ThrowingTimber
06-14-2005, 05:45 AM
Everyone knows there are no pogies in the upper bay :angel: :vamp:

Gotofish
06-14-2005, 06:26 AM
There won't be for too much longer.....I'm watching two pogie boats seine them up right now behind my place in Riverside.

It's really too bad. I wonder what the economic impact has been from all the boats chsing the stripers that have been chasing the pogies. I would imagine it would outweigh whatever the boat owners make....

piemma
06-14-2005, 06:39 AM
SHOOT THE BASTARDS!!!! :splat:

spence
06-14-2005, 06:50 AM
Last month I made a joking comment about the pogie boat poaching all the stripers in Narragansett bay, right (unknown to me) in front of a guy who works for Arc Bait :kewl: :smokin:

I thought it was pretty ironic, he didn't think it was so funny :tooth:

-spence

Fishpart
06-14-2005, 06:50 AM
:yak6: A$ alway$ there i$ more to it than meet$ the eye. How many people come to Rhody for lob$ter$ in the re$urant$ charging maximum price and paying tiny wage$ in the "new $ervice economy"...... Where does the lob$ter bait come from other than the pogie boat$?

I would $ay it is more about $uppoting the life$tyle of not even the rich, but the ultra cla$$ than what the lowly bass fisherman wants or the needs of the environment.... :yak6:

spence
06-14-2005, 06:52 AM
B-A-L-A-N-C-E

-spence

Homerun04
06-14-2005, 07:21 AM
B-A-L-A-N-C-E :kewl:
Ditto to this....key to everything.

Mr. Sandman
06-14-2005, 07:29 AM
I think the pogi fishing pressure has been so great for so long that in order to achieve balance you need to shut it down for 50 years. It is time the pendulum swings the other way.

Glad you see them...no sight of the here (yet) but my eyes are peeled!

Canalman
06-14-2005, 11:42 AM
:splat: where's my crossbow................

partsjay
06-14-2005, 01:07 PM
Buddy of mine said he saw some as well.... :huh:

fishdog13
06-14-2005, 04:08 PM
:kewl: B-A-L-A-N-C-E


Ditto to this....key to everything.

boot man
06-14-2005, 06:23 PM
Nice spot burn!! :yak6:

spence
06-14-2005, 06:45 PM
Yea, almost like it was intentional. Perhaps it was a diversion :hs:

-spence

likwid
06-18-2005, 03:28 PM
saw some yesterday
somewhere
sometime. :D

Skip N
06-19-2005, 12:07 AM
Saw a few birdies flying overhead with them in thier mouths this evening. Quite a cool site.

boot man
06-19-2005, 01:01 PM
Big Birds?
little menhaden?
Or good acid?

zacs
06-22-2005, 08:51 AM
You're not kidding about the pogies in buzzards bay.

Day before yesterday, my fishing partner had one on his fly line, until......

Gotofish
06-24-2005, 07:42 AM
Pogy boat back in Riverside and I can hear the spotter plane flying overhead somewhere.....just an FYI for those looking to fish the upper bay today.

Mr. Sandman
06-24-2005, 08:04 AM
they made it to MV :hee: Yesterday was the first time I saw them in probably 10+ years. Not a huge school but it was fun to see them flippin on the surface. If they stick around till the fall...it could get fun, real fun.

JohnR
06-24-2005, 08:06 AM
Has anyone seen bass mixed in with those menhaden when the net is pulled? Or do bass get out of the way?

Fish On
06-24-2005, 08:10 AM
These menhaden are also referred to as bunker right?

Pete F.
06-24-2005, 08:12 AM
Has anyone seen bass mixed in with those menhaden when the net is pulled? Or do bass get out of the way?
I'm sure there's no bycatch :exp: Yaa right

CANAL RAT
06-24-2005, 08:39 AM
the word is duxbury,green and plymouth harbors are bursting with medium size pogies :kewl: i going down now to take a look now then i am going to head down tonight. maybe i can snag some and live line them for some LARGE.
theres tons of bait around squid,silversdies and sandeels are here in incredible numbers

CANAL RAT
06-24-2005, 08:51 AM
These menhaden are also referred to as bunker right?

menhaden,pogys,bunker,mossback,fatback what ever you want to call them.

bunker,mossback,fatback is used more down in jersey and new york. menhaden is there proper name. new englanders call them pogys

BEETLE
06-24-2005, 11:26 AM
Could these be the adults of the peanut bunker of two years ago that we were loaded with, or is that way over the life cycle ?????

Team Rock On
06-24-2005, 01:08 PM
These are "red tide" pogies. Remeber years ago when Boston Harbor was dirty? We haven't had a big red tide since those days....

Gotofish
06-24-2005, 03:00 PM
I was wondering the same thing as Beetle but I have no idea how long it takes the pogy's to grow up....

BEETLE
06-24-2005, 04:38 PM
Hmmm,,... makes sense what rock on says, seeing as the fish feed on all that microscopic type stuff.... :read:

BEETLE
06-24-2005, 08:07 PM
Life Cycle

Sexual maturity begins just before age three, and these fish spawn from March to May, and again in September and October. Larvae of .4-1.3 inches appear in the Chesapeake Bay in large numbers during May and June, with a smaller influx in November.
The larvae use the brackish waters and fresh waters as nursery areas. Here they metamorphose into juveniles and grow rapidly.
By the fall, the young menhaden quadruple in size to reach 1.6 inches to 7.3 inches. The young-of-the-year leave the estuary in late fall and join the schools in southward migration.
Menhaden reach a maximum length of 15 inches, feeding on both phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Nebe
06-24-2005, 08:09 PM
a little birdie told me that there was a pod near where the 'high and dry' house is :D