MENHADEN ARE BACK
 

no locations but the menhaden are around in huge schools.....its great to see them again. i thought they were gonna be lost cause like going for cod anywhere off the vineyard...lol

I got a report that there were some pogies off the east side of Block Island today.There are a lot of them in the upper bay and there are big bass on them . I know some boatniks that are doing well up there ....but the water is getting hot there. Too hot for bassies to hang out in. Oh yes ,too hot and they will be moving back down the bay to your favorite secret spot soon. :happy: :happy: :happy:

:kewl: :kewl: :hihi:

Everyone knows there are no pogies in the upper bay :angel: :vamp:

There won't be for too much longer.....I'm watching two pogie boats seine them up right now behind my place in Riverside.

It's really too bad. I wonder what the economic impact has been from all the boats chsing the stripers that have been chasing the pogies. I would imagine it would outweigh whatever the boat owners make....

SHOOT THE BASTARDS!!!! :splat:

Last month I made a joking comment about the pogie boat poaching all the stripers in Narragansett bay, right (unknown to me) in front of a guy who works for Arc Bait :kewl: :smokin:

I thought it was pretty ironic, he didn't think it was so funny :tooth:

-spence

:yak6: A$ alway$ there i$ more to it than meet$ the eye. How many people come to Rhody for lob$ter$ in the re$urant$ charging maximum price and paying tiny wage$ in the "new $ervice economy"...... Where does the lob$ter bait come from other than the pogie boat$?

I would $ay it is more about $uppoting the life$tyle of not even the rich, but the ultra cla$$ than what the lowly bass fisherman wants or the needs of the environment.... :yak6:

B-A-L-A-N-C-E

-spence

:kewl:
Ditto to this....key to everything.

I think the pogi fishing pressure has been so great for so long that in order to achieve balance you need to shut it down for 50 years. It is time the pendulum swings the other way.

Glad you see them...no sight of the here (yet) but my eyes are peeled!

:splat: where's my crossbow................

Buddy of mine said he saw some as well.... :huh:

:kewl: B-A-L-A-N-C-E


Ditto to this....key to everything.

Nice spot burn!! :yak6:

Yea, almost like it was intentional. Perhaps it was a diversion :hs:

-spence

saw some yesterday
somewhere
sometime. :D

Saw a few birdies flying overhead with them in thier mouths this evening. Quite a cool site.

Big Birds?
little menhaden?
Or good acid?

You're not kidding about the pogies in buzzards bay.

Day before yesterday, my fishing partner had one on his fly line, until......

Pogy boat back in Riverside and I can hear the spotter plane flying overhead somewhere.....just an FYI for those looking to fish the upper bay today.

they made it to MV :hee: Yesterday was the first time I saw them in probably 10+ years. Not a huge school but it was fun to see them flippin on the surface. If they stick around till the fall...it could get fun, real fun.

Has anyone seen bass mixed in with those menhaden when the net is pulled? Or do bass get out of the way?

These menhaden are also referred to as bunker right?

I'm sure there's no bycatch :exp: Yaa right

the word is duxbury,green and plymouth harbors are bursting with medium size pogies :kewl: i going down now to take a look now then i am going to head down tonight. maybe i can snag some and live line them for some LARGE.
theres tons of bait around squid,silversdies and sandeels are here in incredible numbers

menhaden,pogys,bunker,mossback,fatback what ever you want to call them.

bunker,mossback,fatback is used more down in jersey and new york. menhaden is there proper name. new englanders call them pogys

Could these be the adults of the peanut bunker of two years ago that we were loaded with, or is that way over the life cycle ?????

pogies
 

These are "red tide" pogies. Remeber years ago when Boston Harbor was dirty? We haven't had a big red tide since those days....

I was wondering the same thing as Beetle but I have no idea how long it takes the pogy's to grow up....