Kept boat at Tripps in Westport for years. Trailering now. I'm halfway between the Wareham River and Taunon River/Mt Hope Bay. Which is better this time of year for Stripers. I flyfish and bait cast. Would like to find an area that would have good action for the kids. Schoolies work fine for me. Any suggestions?

Don,t know D/S about the W/R

But MHB is GOOD but it gets extremely dirty ========================== also holds many of them there early season choppers :fishslap:

www.projo.com , -fishingreport

welcome to S_B

do your homework.... :jester::jester:

Contrary to the projo fishing report- big surprise there :rollem: - MHB hasn't been particularly productive this year. Fish here and there, but most of them are South in the Sakonnet or over in the mid Bay at this point.

Leave the crowd if you want to find your own fish. The fleet was out there this morning under the birds (approx. 20 boats all within casting range of each other) accomplishing absolutely nothing live lining Black Saltys and pogies. Saw one maybe 15 pound bass caught during the 1/2 hour or so I was in visual range. Couldn't help but laugh....

thanks for nothing...'do my homework', is that the kinda poignant advice available on this forum?

sorry for interrupting your dungeons and dragons tourney...as you were...

Went out of the Wareham river, nice ramp, easy in/out, good docks...parking space is limited though (they give tickets for not paying the $5 to park, yet no tickets for the cars parked in trailer spots taking our space??). Went over to the Mashnee flats, outgoing tide, saw some birds working, caught a few schoolies on a popper, caught a few more on the fly using a sand eel pattern...big surprise though was the JUMBO flounder my 9yr old caught. We were drifting over the end of the flat by the big rip, he has a small herring chunk on a striper rig, no weight, and this monster flounder (yes I'm sure it wasn't a fluke!), hit it and he starts yelling 'Dad I got something'. He fought it all the way in, I netted it and BOY was it good eating! Went to a BBQ that afternoon and the fresh fried flounder he caught was all the rage. He was showing all his pals, they were all pretty impressed with his (our) dumb luck. Watch, next time I go I'll bring a flounder/fluke rig with some clam and probably catch a striper on it! Anyway, great day. As parents we always remind our kids to say Thanks and Please...well the whole day my sons keeps saying to me, Thanks Dad, that was a lot of fun...almost makes the $3/gallon for gas and the sh*t I took for showing up to the BBQ late worth it!

No doubt worth it, gave me chills just reading it. Kids are the best.