i did this last year, but it appears many of us are interested in how others are doing generally. If you can respond how you fish (e.g. Boat-good or Surf-good) that might help.

:thanks:

SURF - Sucked my left ...

A whole lot of nothing. July had better be better

June wasn't great for me but that is just typical of my area.

Boat. The last couple of weeks of May into the first week of June were good. After that things went quiet. Had fun with the Blues anyway.

BOAT- Fishing was consistently OK through the month, biggest bass was 29lbs.

june from the beach was bad for me.....

shore and it sucked for me!

surf- high quantity but very poor quality. I've been fishing the North and South shores of MA.

I plead the 5th...we'll see what I have to say about July in about 7 hours!
Later,
Rick

The shore was something i dont want to talk about. A month to forget for sure.

i understand that the ones catching are tight lipped... and rightly so... but is it just me or are there ALOT of people having a tough year?

sometimes i think about all the effort put in to catch one stinkin blue fish... but then i think... hey dummy! your on the water, stop complaining, your doing something less than 1% of the country can do.

then i feel lucky again. :)

surf, disappointing compared to last year.

crappiest June ever for me......

I'm in the minority, I've been doing well from shore and am still fishing just about every night or 2 hours or so pre-dawn each morning.

Numbers wise June was not may, and I did get a bunch of skunks including on a few all nighters, but I had atleast a few good fish each week.

first week 28#
second week 26#
third week 18# fishing danny's on fathers day with my dad.
4'th week, 26-28#, forgot my boga at my dad's house.
This week, 22-24#,

I seem to be averaging 1-3 fish a night, fishing 2-3 hours a night...

One boat trip in Maine at end of June...fantastic. 3 of us released over 20. (Kept none). Not too big, but lost a couple that spooled us. Really fun.

Really slowed down halfway thru. Blues everywhere.

June sucked, but I caught lots of other things including my first sand shark....so that makes for the lack of Bass. However, I fished the surf early morning July 4th near South Boston. Action was great, 3 fish all well over 30 inches in less than an hour. It was a damn sin how much fish I was catching. Kept one, released the others. So far, July in the harbor looks pretty damn promising.

ONE WORD----- POOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one of the best june i'ver had from the surf

42 and 33 lbers wieghed for the cup

a bunch of 20-28 lb fish

switched things the first week of june after a terrible last 2 weeks of may and it paid off

Didn't take one cast in June, but will be back at it this weekend.....:musc:

My June was OK, didn't get skunked a lot, but didn't catch anything really good either. couple of near-skunks of 1 or 2 schoolies for the night.
Jim, give us some tips!

Absolute junk for me.But.........you gotta put in the time and I just haven't had much of it.

not owning a boat was asked out by a few friends and I'm not one to turn down an invitation, 5/31 caught more fish in a 3.5 - 4 hour period than I think I did last year smallest bass was about 17.5 - 18lbs kept as table fish for mom and dad. That set the boat fishing pace for the month. Wasnt like that all month, but once you found the bait you could pretty much target fish 20lbs or better at will, but you had to work for 'em. Thanks for all the help with the boat stuff guys you know who you are. It wasnt just snag and drop a pogie on their heads, at times it was but more often than not we had to hustle for them.

Shore fishing for the month was a bit slow but I had a steady pick of high teen pound fish to low and mid 20 lb fish. Most of it was doing things I in places I normally wouldnt do, but hey I found the fish, so maybe its stuff I should be doing more often. I ended June on Marthas Vineyard where I was able to find fish every night out, and with the bright moon was fishing pretty much the same way I would fish a bluebird day at noon. Pencil poppers, spooks etc. My buddy ended up taking a nice 28lb fish in bright moonlight on a spook(in the old ccbc wonderbread pattern). The sandeels were the bait fo choice for some fly guys we met while on the island and they average 30-40 fish a night, fly guys measure in inches so they said they had them to 35 inches. We (candi) and I took the girls 7 & 10 out for their first true nights of striper fishing on MV and they managed 6 to 10 fish a piece throwing 1/8th ounce storm shads on light spinning rods with 15lb test fireline and 10lb flouro leaders. Candi managed a keeper fluke using the same setup. Fishing for the small fish with the kids we'd do 30-35 fish a night with a few small keeper sized fish mixed in, and the occasional flounder. Candi dropped a nice one that would have gone 10lbs easy, she was fishing real light using 6lb test flouro line with no leader and a 1/8th ounce storm in bunker pattern. Fishing with the girls was usually about 4-5 hours a night then we would put the girls to bed and my buddy and I would burn the midnight oil. My last day fishing in RI in june was Friday the 22nd into saturday june 23rd and again fishing unconventional locations with conventional methods my buddy managed his personal best, the fish was nice and round taken on a white gibbs 3 hook darter.(the screw eyes held fine) Have been back for about 5 days now and back to work so chances are the 6th will be my first night out for real, have broken out the fly rod and have walked and walked beaches but havent gotten too serious into hunting yet, maybe I'll get serious friday night. Good luck everyone, be safe.

My June was OK, didn't get skunked a lot, but didn't catch anything really good either. couple of near-skunks of 1 or 2 schoolies for the night.
Jim, give us some tips!

4 nights a week....looked for water moving more than usual

A very good month......for eating humble pie. So it goes.

All:

we all appreciate the honesty here. Very nice and this way nobody really gives up secrets, just general informaion

For me, I didn't get out much. In fact, probably the least trips in a month in a while. I had a few decent fish up to 25 lbs or so.

mid july-sept BOSTON HARBOR! Oh baby! :smokin:....11-2 SOX

Considering work kept me from fishing in June of 06, this last June was not to bad. All surf, no boat.

Boat it has been great!!

0 for my last 9... in june... in fact.. only caught like 6 fish all month... a few to 27" but thats it...

im taking a nice two week break.. wont be back out till a week from tonight... renergized and ready to kill.

June was a bad month regarding family events and celebrations, now we are into the vacation and Summer doldrums. Hope to get out soon. Did do a charter, most short, but at least I got my feet wet.

June 07, Other than the weather and work which kept me away from the boat during the week. June 07 was great finally caught stripers from my boat :) Only took 6 years to figure it out!

Was back for the first two weeks of June and results from the surf were pretty poor. The best I was able to manage was a couple of schoolies. Made two boat trips with friends and we had about 10 fish total each time with only one keeper for the two trips.

June on the ocean front is usually my best month for big fish, this was the worst month of June I ever had.

boat-average......for the vineyard

Fish...what fish...there were fish? Not for me, just one good night at PI and that was it.

Boat - very consistent June. Lots of nice fish. No real big fish, May had many more high 30# bass. Bluefish w/light tackle kicked butt.

shore was no dice

surf, was ok for me, heard tons of nice bass being taken from the surf this year but none for me.

Alot of big bass around farther out need a boat , pretty laim from shore were Ive gone anyway..