fishing today in boston
 

I am going out (in a boat) this afternoon/evening and need some advice from people who have fished in Mass recently. I am thinking I could either stick to the Harbor (DI, FB, the islands) or go out just a little (B-Buoy, dump). How has B-Buoy been lately? Any stripers out there, or should I stick in the Harbor?

lots of blues outside.
bass inside but you gotta work for 'em, low and slow.
:)
mike

Bass up to 19 pounds today inside.

Fresh cut Herring :D

Spend an hour getting live only to cut them up :smash:

Frank.

Thanks for the info. Tried B-Buoy at ~4:30-5 pm, but all the fish on the finder were hugging the bottom. To windy to drift, and to deep to troll (at least for my gear). Went back inside and trolled from ~6:30-10:30 pm and picked up 4 stripers, 1 keeper (combination of tube-n-worm & niners). Not a single bluefish which was weird. Had a lot of strikes on the tube which did not end up in hook-ups though. The hooks were nice and sharp, just tentative hits I guess. Anyway, marked what looked like big balls of bait, but saw no surface activity at all. No hits on spoons or storms thrown down into the fish either. The one keeper had shells (or maybe stones) in his stomach. Unless the "baitfish" we were marking weren't really baitfish, then I am confused. Lots of bait, but no real activity, and the one we kept was eating muscles. I haven't been out as much as I would like this year :af: but when I have it seems like there is lots of bait around, but not much on the surface. Don't get me wrong, I have seen blitzes, but I have also seen large schools of what appear to be baitfish, with what appear to be schools of big fish below them, and nothing happening. Anyone else noticed this phenomenon?