Ok. Time is running out. How would you rate October ?

didnt go, my gear is broen:exp:

My best fish for the month was Friday night before the storm. Other than that it was very disappointing with many small bass and lots of Bluefish. A few high teen low 20 lb fish mixed in but very disappointing overall. On a scale of 1 to 5. I give it a 2.

I fished the canal 95% of the time and it was twinkieville but small fish are better than none.

I did very well on the North Shore and Boston areas. Great time on the fly rod and light tackle. Nothing over 25lbs. Dominate westerly winds made for a good month of fishing.

The Balls

Not what I'd hoped for, but that's nothing unusual.

This is my 3rd full season fishing and it was better than the previous two so to me it was great. It's nice feeling like I'm moving forward.:humpty:

Still would have been nice to get some more large.:huh:

Fantastic......Lots of decent bass.

Luds48 - Did I meet you a couple of weeks ago at Castlerock?

Small! I got today and tomorrow to improve my rating!:drool:

Spent a lot of time and effort for the ellusive 50 lber.
Never came close. But the season isn't over 'til it's over.
Lot's of hit or miss. Some areas were hot,,, but not my areas :wall:
Summer's gas prices put a damper on things for me too. Either a few "trips" or lots of local jaunts,,,, I did local. Never saw the Cape this year at all.

Quantity - Good
Quality - Bad

Beginning Oct - mostly bass with blues mixed in
Middle to now Oct - mostly blues with bass mixed in

In RI... poor from the surf.

Great for big blues, mediocre for bass. And for the 3 time in four years, October has resulted in me losing a very big fish. Have had good luck hooking em and bad luck landing em. My concern is that my luck in hooking them will run out.

In RI... poor from the surf.
you got that right other then june the worst month of the session for me. july and aug. were like fall.:huh:

Excellent for me, but I'm not a long time surf fisherman, so maybe others wouldn't see it the same way. I'm happy though, and that's pretty much all that counts, I suppose. Biggest was 33#. All surf.

Both Sept and Oct were great,my usual spots were slow but i've found plenty of nice fish in the most unusual spots. This entire season has been crazy, things i've done in past years just didn't work this time around...all in all though it's been good.

It aint over yet.:btu:

its sucked so far:rocketem:

Decent . Not alot of bass, but decent sized.

Same as the rest of the season. Decent and steady, but not phenomenal. Had to "put the time in" as they say. I love these "how did you do" threads. They are interesting, but one man's blitz is another man's skunk,one man's large is another's twinkie, so forth and so on. Without the outer cape, though, you do have to work harder for what you produce over a season in terms of larger, say 30# fish. One good night on the cape and you could get more 30 plus pound fish than you can in an entire season now. I would say if you got a 30 plus from the shore this year, you had a pretty good fish. This excludes the NIB Jersey fishing, of course, meaning the 30's were pretty common for a while.

i agree with 'steady and decent'...not a problem finding fish but size was not that impressive...

the number of fish blew my mind, lots of smalls
and picked out a bunch of 15-20lb fish.

This is the best Oct. ever for me and my Bro. We caught 60 stripers at the Canal Tuesday.. Lots of fun.. Our arms are about to fall off.. We were beat by the time we got home.. I know compare to you guys this is sad, but for us.. we are still learning and having fun.. Oh, no keeper of course.. all schoolies.. between 15 to 27 inches..
Hope our catches get bigger next time... :wavey:

THE worst I have ever seen in all my years of surf casting !!!!!!!!!!

Been a weird season. As Steve said, as far as past Octobers go this has not been a normal "good" October. Very inconsistent and too many "single" fish sessions. Same goes for the entire season for me. However, this is all relating to surf-fishing as I know Steve's comments are.

On the contrary, seems the boat guys in the Bay had a banner year with many many good days, especially June & Sept-Oct.

Main factor in my opinion: BIG BUNKER...

I am now convinced that the bass are soooo drawn to these big bunker as their primary food source that all the big bunker in the Bay this year kept the major schools of big bass happy and concentrated there. They did not need to move down to the SOCO & Newport surf to feed.

In my opinion the lack of big bunker is the main reason for dry spells and, more importantly, the main reason why so many large bass these days seem way underweight for their length to weight ratio. I think bass feeding heavily and for a longer duration on bunker maintain a higher total body mass & weight from all the fish oils in the bunker. These bass just can't maintain this healthy weight & mass eating crabs, lobsters, mantis shrimp, small less oily baitfish, etc.

Hopefully bunker conservation will take off in the future.

Some how October got away. I never got out. How'd it get to be November so quickly.