What a forecast! Hopefully things die down by Sunday for the S-B.com trip.

THIS AFTERNOON
N WINDS 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 KT.
SEAS 9 TO 12 FT. SHOWERS LIKELY THIS MORNING.

TONIGHT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. SEAS 7 TO
10 FT. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS.

WED
N WINDS 20 TO 25 KT...DIMINISHING TO 15 TO 20 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. SEAS 7 TO 9 FT. A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS.

WED NIGHT
N WINDS 15 TO 20 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. SEAS
7 TO 10 FT.

THU
N WINDS 20 TO 25 KT...BECOMING NE 15 TO 20 KT IN THE
AFTERNOON. GUSTS UP TO 30 KT. SEAS 7 TO 10 FT.

THU NIGHT
N WINDS 10 TO 15 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 20 KT. SEAS
6 TO 9 FT.

FRI
NE WINDS 10 TO 15 KT. GUSTS UP TO 20 KT. SEAS 4 TO 7 FT.

Ouch

and the Mouth of the Merrimack has been uglier than usual... the dredging made it worse... the North side now has a huge bar/flat 50 yards out where deep water once was.. it's 4' deep at low tide now.... the south side still has the infamous jergals bar, but the dredging created a funnel that now always has a standing chop... add an easterly and it gets down right nasty...... last week any boat under 30' was turned back by the coast gaurd...... the forecast was enough for me to put the small boat back on the trailer and do the water and fuel pumps ahead of schedule as well as put a set of brushes in the starter and replace the shift and throttle cables.. all things i was going to do next season...

it's been brutal. gonna have to start fishing the river soon

That forecast and add in coming up on a full moon. :fury:

That full moon will force us to use heavy jigs. Hopefully the wind dies or opposes the water to slow the drift.

I gave up and went flounder fishing instead!!!!!

Typical may weather. wet cold and crappy.
I'm not missing anything still up on blocks
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and the Mouth of the Merrimack has been uglier than usual... the dredging made it worse... the North side now has a huge bar/flat 50 yards out where deep water once was.. it's 4' deep at low tide now.... the south side still has the infamous jergals bar, but the dredging created a funnel that now always has a standing chop... add an easterly and it gets down right nasty...... last week any boat under 30' was turned back by the coast gaurd...... the forecast was enough for me to put the small boat back on the trailer and do the water and fuel pumps ahead of schedule as well as put a set of brushes in the starter and replace the shift and throttle cables.. all things i was going to do next season...

i've been wondering how the dredgingwas gonna effect the fishing....last year i fished the mouth more than usual...seemed slightly better than it normally was, looks like it might be a new learning curve again....or just back into the river!

Doing a flatty charter tomorrow, and fishing myself on Sat or Sun.

Weather looks resaonable, but I'm not going offshore..

Good fishing if you get out this weekend. !!!!!!!:)

I made it out ground fishing Saturday.14th of May
the ocean was beautiful Nice even swell, min waves. It was overcast all day with hardly any wind. You would never know the day before was reading 8' seas.

ended up Jigging most of the day (Only out 9-1) ended up with 9 keeper Cod 3 guys. All 30"+ On Old Scantum

Lots of short Cod to throw back.