We actually go way back to the mid/late 80's...he's one of the good guys and a sniper to boot. You might actually know him from the cape. I think the night he's talking about was from quite a few years ago though. Makes a mean fluke francaise too.

As I said before, the point I was making was about fishing a full moon.
And it was a while back, pre seals at the race. Water thick like soup with sand eels, BIG school of BIG fish in on them from 10pm till 4 am.
I have had some wild nites fishing since the 70's. But this nite was a freak. 4 guys, most of the fish were in the 20 to 35 pound class with some 40ish fish thrown in and one 52.
I don't make stuff up, like to keep to myself. Some of the guys on this site know me and can back me up .
I don't know why you ask it would have been an avg good day eeling the back in the boats for us, as I'm sure you know.

OH I believe you. I'm one of the "old guys" from the 70s on the Cape.

One of the Lanny Grazini crew. I remember nights these kids would not believe and will, in all probability, never see. 40s all night with some fish so big we never stopped them on Crack 300s and Squidders with the drag tightened all the way down.:drool: I was serious. Mike and I should get together and fish with you. BTW, I think I do know you.

Big uptick
 

Larger fish in larger quantities showing up the last three nights, need I say more?

Get out there now guys, its the tip of the iceberg...

You wouldn't believe how much I miss fishing like that. Now my OCD is on BFT.
I use to bribe Nat and Chuckie with food, when I first started going down there. When we were not fishing we would be laughing our asses off.

Had four good nights of fishing over the long weekend with a bunch of upper 20# class fish and topped it off with a fish just over 30# on Sunday night. Sensing things were turning for the better I headed south to one of my better big fish spots last night and fed the toothy critters for two hours.:wall: Tonight's a new night though...

Looks like the further south you go the more teeth you'll find. Making up bigtime for a blueless summer. I can't get anything past them right now. One more night before I'm Austria bound.
DZ

I miss Chuckie and Lanny and #^&#^&#^&#^&y C. #^&#^&#^&#^&y is still around and fishes SoCo a lot.

Thought I had it dialed in last night. Was where I wanted to be when I wanted to be there... just a slow night. Biggest fish 15 lbs, a couple of schoolies mixed in and a cigar butt for good measure.:fury:

Nice night out there though, perfect temp.

Should have been here last night
 

Last night I had one lowly bluefish in an area that's been producing lately...night before was slam zany but alas, I missed out due to work obligations.
Kind of like the entire season has been so far...some good flurries but the fish don't seem to hang around too long and much work has been reqiured to get them. Three weeks ago I declared it the "tip of the iceberg", but the iceberg seems to be floating by in small chunks...
We're starting to run out of time at this point, hopefully this week will produce like it normally does for me, otherwise its gonna be a long winter...

Mike, Canal was slow and the crowds in Bourne, due to the Scallop Fest, were huge. traffic everywhere.

I'm feeling good about the next two weeks. This east wind should help get some bait inshore.

Marked lots of small bait in the harbor this morning. Some fish on top, but not really organized. Third cast with a Ronz got a 38" fish at 0630. I'm thinking it was going to be a great day..... Only found three other fish, hours later. Was outside throwing into white water in the rocks. Got pretty sloppy out there. Hoping to see the surf fishing pick up, tonight... It's been feast or famine, but mostly famine.

But I have been focusing on getting my surf game ready for the MV Derby 10/4-10/11.... Looking forward to hooking up with some albies again, and maybe will hit it right for nighttime bass. The shore caught bass are getting larger by the week down there.

ross, there were fish there last night on the incoming, alittle before mid tide. you should have better conditions tonight - wish i could go tonight. hopefully the wind turned in time today because it was starting to get weedy with the NE last night.

Last night=:sleeps:

me too. dink & blue, in a numbers fall spot too.... nice conditions...

Just back from the Canal. Sleepy time. Saw one fish break and a bass about 10# caught. That was it in 4 hours. From the RR bridge to the Bourne Bridge and all around the herring run.

Vas is das "Fall Run"...:huh:

Somebody give me a wake-up call when it gets here, wouldja...:yawn:

...:sleeps::sleeps::sleeps:

mike (BB) nice seeing ya out there ,sorry I didnt say hi,I was throwing eels and didnt get a bump all night and my partner was throwin bombers and needles and he was getting schoolies and a big blue...go figure

Was I the only one in the Ditch from MN to 2 AM dredging the bottom with my custom eelskin jigs-- absolutely nothing. The false motivation was a daybreak 26-3 AM before-- jigging (saw nothing breaking). I'm falling way bay behind the Back Beach formula of "doing okay" in the ratio of 1:3 trips.

Bonds

you needed your lucky charm NS .

seems like alot of people not catching much anywhere. spent 4 hours last night perched on a rock waiting for a bus that never came

My ratio lately is about 1:5..:laugha:

The only saving grace right now is two years ago things were just as they are now, then early oct. things lit up like I've never experienced before from shore....hoping for a repeat.

That was pretty amazing BB I remember:fishin:

I have also been hinging my hopes on the 2 years ago philosophy.Same tides during the same weeks, but unfortunately my usual honeyhole has been a barren wasteland whereas two years ago it was slammer time.Time for shore fishermen to buy boats and get on the tuna bite because the bass bite has been terrible from shore for two years now.I know big fish have been caught because I have gotten some,however the numbers are nowhere near resembling those of years past. As BB likes to say"count your fish at the end of the year" but that time is near and I have a considerable amount time and effort invested with mediocre results at best.Go get 'em.

There are a lot of small cookie cutter fish (22"-26") in the Canal. They're picky and seem color sensitive, but they're there. You have to work for them.

We've got half moon tides and the current slows to a crawl the last 2 hours--you'll be dragging tail on the bottom with 2 oz jigs. I would say try eels at this stage of the tide. Or rig a 9" Sluggo or big Hogy on the back of one of PJ Joe's wobbleheads.

So I was dragging tail as Mike P says. 4:00 AM to 7:30 AM or so. Flip at 5:09 AM. Nothing to speak off literally. Just nothing and no one around me either.

I may have to follow JakeF's advice and start fishing RI again. I just know the Ditch will light up any day so I am reticent to give up on it. My luck will be just when I give up BB will start nailing 30s and 40s like thay are sunfish.

Eels haven't worked, either. Hopefully with the pickup in tidal flow mid week something will happen.

On the flip side, I went fresh water fishing yesterday with my son and it was great. Lots of hungry bass and a few "buskies" for good measure. Also beats kicking the %$%$%$%$ out of myself during the wee hours.

Good for you Mike. I'm getting tired of 155 mile round trip too. It better happen soon or we will be fishing in the snow.

2 years ago august and early september were amazing for us up here. I'm guessing that you guys got those fish heading south. This year august and early september have sucked. Hopefully for you guys they've been up here, just not were i've been looking.

I used to call that the "Luds" indicator :laugha:, meaning when you guys mentioned a slowdown was taking place up your way, things seemed to just be picking up down here.