water was pretty warm last weekend - with air temps in the 70's this past week (where I am) ... gotta wonder if that's gonna stick around for a while.

Boy if anyone has kids or grandkids in the Plymouth mass area, the inner bay is just loaded with bait and schoolies and you can't help but catch. Launched at Stevens Field at 10:30, about 50 fish later the yak was back on the trailer at 1pm and I was heading home. I could have stayed and caught as many as I wanted, but it was hot and I'd had my fun on freshwater gear. All on a 6" bubblegum jerkbait, fished weightless on top with a 5/0 owner 90 degree hook and screw lock bait holder. I had to trim the tip once, but with small bass they last.

that ,s fun fishing Bob , :fishin:

Like the fishing we had at a certain winter spot you know of, but all topwater and crazy. When those toggy start biting you let me know, I'd take a drive to have a shot at bringing home 6 of those yummy fish. I want to get out once with you before the season ends.

Got to the harbor this am around 6. Big peanut blitz all around my moored boat. Caught several small bass to make the dog happy. Flew down the islands, sunrise behind me. Beautiful morning. Arrived at "my" spot only to find a derby #^&#^&#^&#^& anchored throwing live pogies. Cut in down tide and made a drift. Had a 20ish # fish eat a danny 50 yards along. Was missing an entire 1/2 of its upper lip from an old hook injury. Fish looked fat and healthy regardless. I sent it on its way. Proceeded to cast for the next 6 hours into some of the best striped bass water in the world. Caught one more schoolie. No bait, no albies, no birds, no small fish. Ugh. Returned to the harbor. Bass were no longer showing but plenty of cormorants were still working. My skiff was covered with an inch of guano. Double ugh. Still beats the canal.

Bob , I,ll get ya out after commercial .we are only allowed 10 fish per boat .no matter how many fisherman ?? all fish under 6# are sold alive at $4.50 or more PP / last shot for $$$$$$$$ for the year .

yeah we have been onto all schoolies ya ever want for the last two weeks .but this week the sizes mixed up to over 20# / yesterday I had 10 over 28" plus a bunch on smaller ...all on cheap plastic schoolie poppers / Denis was using rubber I quit when I caught two blues ><>

Mass com over!

did you do OK .............live price ????

Poor, Foolishly spent too much time chasing Alby ,
I think the BSB pot guys fill the quota more than rods

I meant Tautog .. sea bass . the pots & lobster guys always fill ours ><><

3.50 live
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That's what I ment, I believe the BSB pot guys can keek x amount of tog from those pots even though there is no tog pots allowed.... Go figure
I'll look it up

Niko's the tog master...:cool:

Niko I,m hoping for $4.00 plus when it opens ........ now we also have a dead wait if over 6#

Why dead over 6? What's the idea behind that?
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Too big for the wok.
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Trolled live macs off the back for hours and hours the other day, no love. Thank God for all the curious Humpbacks swimming around us to pass the time.
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they said they can,t move the large ones [alive ] I brought in a 9# the 1st day last year & they threw it in a dead box ><><

Spent 12 hours swimming Mac's the length of plum island. .then moved into the river as far as 4 miles. ..not...a single chase....Gannetts were diving at day break but it was all small stuff pushing the bait...I saw several boats...most were fly fishing or tossing small tins ..to the small stuff...my sights were set on something larger...I pulled the boat last night...game over for me until ice fishing. ..
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they are still here and still thick as is the bait put a friend on his 1st Albie ... so much bait the bite is shorten the fill up faster .. again they like the white Albie Snax

That's awesome Wayne!! Exactly what I wanted to hear. Nothing better than putting friends on fish on top of it
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CC Bay Blues
 

Large bluefish are wreaking havoc on peanut bunker in CC Bay. All fish were between 15-18lbs, puking up peanut bunker. 15'-35' of water. Had doubles & triples often for a few consecutive hours. Before this outing, I could count the bluefish I caught this season on one hand. This was last weekend.

All topwater, strikes were ferocious!!

Al's still here, popped one at lunch time.

Dawn to noon down the islands.
Small fish on peanuts......widely scattered.
Saw nothing of consequence.

Nice haul of Blues.... love the size.

Did you catch them all on topwater lures ?

12,900 views,,,,

Credit to Piemma for starting the thread and those who chimed in to keep it going. Been a real good one....no bitchin, bragging, spot burning etc. Just fishing . I don't chase reports ...just enjoy reading them.

I don't even remember what year, but I"m guessing mid to late 80's, there was a huge peanut bunker year, inside Boston early was insane and then from Cohasset to Plymouth nonstop on massive blues. I remember getting just outside Scituate harbor one Saturday with my friend Pete and as far as you could see in any direction there were birds working. We caught gator blues until are arms couldn't take it anymore and all I can say is, that god I was pouring my own plastic because I think I went through all on board that day. Oddly you don't loose a lot of jigs to the initial strike, but if you get greedy and don't retie byby.

:scratch:

reports = not just for the lazy fishermen anymore

I would rather subscribe to the Bill Belichick way of tell them nothing
but you know how it goes, we catch fish and should be able to talk about it. All my fish are caught in the canal

Here's my report....
Haven't wet a line since late June (which was incredibly memorable for all involved :faga: ).....heck, I even got to see Clammer and Dennis out on the water, that was the icing on the cake (and Mike didn't even try ramming me with his boat!)
And as much as I'd like to say I'm happy for those who I've read had an incredible summer and now fall, I'm extremely jealous.
This will definitely go down in the books as my least fished year (after puberty :tooth:)
It was very hard forfeiting my responsibilities after getting numerous phone calls and texts, even during the Canal Stripa-palooza....but priorities take precedence, yep, even over social media bullchit-
A heavy albie presence has also weighed heavily on my mind. I even turned down a few invites from my brother from another mother (Goose)...:(

Back on point, I do heavily agree ....this thread has been and continues to be entertaining....especially for those of us who haven't been able to get out there. Something we should definitely do annually. NO SPOTS...just reports and tactics that worked when others weren't.

This is the kind of thread that actually reminds me.. that this IS an actual fishing website.

Tight lines everyone....haven't wrapped up the boat yet and still have my seal-skivvies hanging and ready, so maybe I can contribute some in the next few weeks??

SOOOOOOOOOOO ya wife wants another #^&#^&#^&#^&in house ............its all on you Blue ><>< love ya my friend ><><><
:humpty::humpty::humpty::humpty::humpty:

South Shore looked pretty dead today. No birds around in the Bay or out front... sigh...

Went out this morning (unexpected ) woke up to no wind and a forecast calling for the wind to show up later .. threw the boat on the truck and was on Albies 2 miles from the ramp .. Seems the same pattern as last week small feeds or just 2 or 3 fish rolling picked up 1 fish casting near a boil nice 10Lbr again on a White Albie snax

Plenty of action with small bass and albies yesterday. Same water today (once the wind swung SW) was near barren (a few small bass via reaction hits on a MS). I blame atmospheric pressure changes when things turn on and off like this. Still not seeing any sizable bass, however. On the plus side all the derby traffic is finally gone. What a relief.

giant albie

Awesome.

Albies still all over my spots, crazy never caught em this late

Had a great night on ultra light tackle in the back bay flats throwing weightless soft plastics to 22-26” fish in the dark, fish were ultra aggressive

Had a close encounter with a 7-8 foot shark the other day, during the day while albie fishing, which was insane.
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Again today? Yikes

I gotta get back up there for those fish. nice work- what was the length?

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bounced around to a few locations in LIS mostly looking for signs of life. never found any bodies of fish (bass, blues, albies) but caught about 30 blackfish- only 2 "keepers" though. we released a few that were less than 1/2" shy of the limit, and then got spot-checked by the DEP officer at the dock.....