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New to Boston
 

Hi Everyone,

I just got on the message board today, and it seems like there's a lot of good stuff on here. I'm origionally from CT and fished the LI Sound most of my life. Being new to Boston I really dont know many good spots to fish from.....I've been to Castle Island a few times but only came up with a couple schoolies. I tried the harbor in the North End (close to my apt) but not much luck there either. I tried mackarel, herring, plugs, and flies..... Anyone have any good spots for me?!?!? Coming up empty handed gets depressing after a while!!!! Thanks!! - Billy

I don't think it is stupid at all. I would have done the same thing. It is bad enough to lose a fish to them, but a plug too really sux.

We got into a few right after we saw you leaving the other spot . And the seals showed their big heads. Didn't lose any fish to them but it about shut down when the seals got in real close. I was using a Gary2 tiger and would have been pissed to have a seal try to steal it.:rocketem:

I was watching down the beach for guys on and saw this rod doubled over, I was thinking "this guys on large".. Then I saw the seal splashing on top . I was thinking somebody finally snapped ,,He's going to kick that seals arse .. Wish I had video of that for the forum .. good show , didn't know at the time it was you Slip ..

ya Mac, if I lost a gary2 tiger to a seal, I'd lose it. it would not be pretty, just thinking about it makes me want to be extra cautious about where I will be tossing one.

tagger, I am lucky I did not break my rod doing that, if I had my 121-3m, I could have whipped that seals butt and had a chance at my plug maybe.

Larry, all this talk about the fishing has me thinking about how they have it over in Malaysia and the Phillipines areas, they overfished their inshore waters so badly, they keep having to go further and further out to sea and the catch is smaller and smaller, you'd think common sense would let them see they need conservation, but I guess they need 20-25" tunafish for food. :rollem: I see areas in our waters where it's getting bad, where flounder used to be but are completely fished out by the resident seals.
We as fishermen have to adapt to the conditions before us or get motivated as a group to bring some change.

billy, get to know some of the members by joining in and maybe someone will be kind enough to let you in on some of the more well know places that are unkown to you, and in the meantime, just keep reading and searching for ways to find spots that may be productive.

After last year, when I fished from shore more than a half dozen times with zero fish, I kind of gave up on striper fishing from shore. This year I've only done it three times, and have one (about 20 inch) fish to show for it. I've started switching back to bluefish and tautog, like I did 15 years ago before the stripers returned. There are definitely some nice blackfish in the canal!

I used my 14 ft tin boat the first time last week in the salt. Some saw it at the leg. I was amazed at how much it could handle. I was taken on 2-3 ft waves in Buzzards bay and it was fine a little bumby but doable. It really shined in the one foot or less seas. We fished off the flats you guys fish in the 20 ft boat and I realized how easy it would be to take the skiff out there next year or later this year.

How is that area in the fall? Do the windshifts make it difficult?