Rhody Fall Run
 

What's the consensus on the fall run in Rhody so far? I hit 4 spots on Friday for a schoolie. Talked to other guys that said it has been slow. How is everyone else doing?

Numbers this fall have been good.Not much in the way of large for me anyways.
Halloween night was by far my best fall fishing so far for quantity.

Went this morning and got 3 right around "keeper" size with the largest being around 32" though it was missing the bottom portion of its tailfin.

fish??
 

I can't find much....

lower bay to soc friday...couple small

cruised all over Newport Sat, 1 dink

today saw no stripes but got a bunch of tautog

getting some but alot slower

bait
 

doing better with bait. fish are around but not hitting plugs that great. why who knows

sucks /getting worse every year //quickly :nailem:

Last good bunch of bass in the 20# class was on 10/30 in soco for me. This weekend was gorilla blues, micro bass and tog. Fat lady coming soon, I think...

Fished SoCo November 3 - 6. Fished it hard, fished the breachways, took the looong walk, the lighthouse, certain beaches, fished eeels, swimmers, poppers, jigs, storms, got so desperate even fished chunk bait for 6 hours. Very small schoolies (like 8 inches), some some blues, biggest being around 8lbs. Fierce winds at night, beautiful weather though and good times with friends. On a scale from 1 - 10 (highest), I rate this trip a 1. Ohh well, great watching those sunrises and sunsets, on Saturday actually saw people swimming. Because I'm not smart, I'll hit RI again in 2 weeks for the hell of it then prob. hang them up....

Ice

I've seen some decent fish caught the last few weeks, not by me, but the fish are there. Just few and far between

take up golf. :angel:

Worst fall run in 15 years.

This has by far been the worst fall i have fished. Not so much as a sniff this weekend. And didnt see any bait either. Im sure i was in the wrong place but this time last year i was hooking up really well. Next day off im in the woods.

Since the big Nor'easter...
 

it's been real slow for me.

Sat-night I hit four spots on the upper cape. No hits, No Bumps no-nothing

I don't think you were in the wrong place, there just really have not been consistent amounts of fish anywhere to be caught in the "usual places". Sure at any given time there are fish somewhere & someone will catch some & we'll hear someone say the fishing is good - but in a general sense this Fall has lacked the consistency & amounts of fish pushing through as past years - at least that's been my experience this fall and is what I've heard from lots of knowledgeable guys.

I still think a combination of the warm September & the giant storm we called October, 2005 kept the bait and the bass offshore as they headed south.

I fished multiple places in south county and a couple in Ct . 1 small hit is all I could muster . Im not done yet still a month left on the calender .

I don't care what the "scientists say" there may be (according to them) 14X as many SB around now then in 1982 but all I know is that I caught a load of bass back then, it was outragous, both in quanity and quality, nothing has compared to that since then. (I released most back then as well) Until that kind of fishing returns, in my view there has been no recovery. Looking at the results from your BI weekend are so sad. When there were 14X fewer fish around, you could catch several 30s' before dark on a regular basis. Fishing after dark yielded some monsters and just not one or two fish either. And it was not just BI and montauk, it was MV, Nantucket, and the cape had these fish.

IMO the counting method is so stone-age it is not known how many fish are actualy killed. But regardless who is killing what, both comm and bycatch kills should be the first thing to stop. The rec kill can be controlled too thru limits but lets stop all comm and bycatch killing and see where that gets us. These make no contribution to the fishery or economy.

I don't belong to sf but support the gamefish status bigtime. I think that you guys that don't support it are paranoid that it will lead to some Nazi like fishing contols and prevent you from wetting a line. I doubt this as SB is the most economically important fish on the east coast.

I think that you guys that support comm bass fishing then complain that the fall run sucks need to re-think your position a bit more. If I take a million # of fish from your hood in August...will it hurt the Sept/Oct run...ans: YES indeed.

Jim;
Regardless, and I do think the stripers, at least large ones aren't around like they used to be. I think the stock may be 'healthy' but the dynamics of the population have changed dramatically (more small fish)

As far as the run goes this year it sucks the big one...
I dont keep detailed logs, but ~25 nights in Oct, had one decent night, and several OK nights with small keeper sized fish... not what it should be...
So far Nov isn't any better....

:kewl: Fully agree.

That pretty much sums it up

its overrrrrrrrrrrr, I hear from a good source that there is a decent daytime bite in westerly but its all school bass and shuts down at dark. I am finished either way...totally burnt out. Paul is right it is the worst fall run in years. A few people hit some fish in isolated pockets but thats it. I say who cares, overall the season was tremendous, it was the best spring I have ever had.

it aint over until I say its over!

I don't know. I remember what happened a few years back when you made that call and things opened right up in a centrally located SoCo spot... :hidin:

I have a hunch #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&'s wife is telling him its over. :lasso:

There will be bass in RI until its too cold to fish, and then they will still be here

With the water temp at 58* it isn't over yet and I will not stop till
at least the weekend after Thanksgiving. I am headed back to Block
Island this weekend John from Twin Maples told me @ the ferry on the
way home, That there were fish around and where to find them.

:humpty: I agree.

It's far from over. :hee:

I agree with sandman 1000 % the 80,s compared to now // no F $%^&* doubt about it /// & now we have more & better equipment : fishing ,boat ,& electronic // if this was available back then / there would have been many 1000 # days //even for the ya-hoo,s :usd:

Nope, I am going back to the Island friday night......

What are you guys saying? that the migration hasnt got here yet??? When is it going to happen, in december??

I always make that call when things are very slow :bl: You have another 2 months easy , migration hasnt even started yet!!!
Its funny, because my wife loves when I am not home!!!!

For me it just gets to be burnout, and when you have a great season there is no need to be desperate and catch the last one that swims!

The season is acually never over, you can catch bass year round now, especially in nebe's favorite spot :rotfl:

Its far from over?? Were you fishing 15 years ago? remember those fall runs? well if you were you would know what I am saying. Fishing was extremely consistant for big bass right until december, not this 25lb fish here and there stuff, The Island had cows in december, those are the falls I remember and if you compare them with the last few they dont come close, I would like tyo know everyones opinion on where the bass are now, its november 8th-they have not moved yet? Thats good news, when do you estimate the migration hitting south county?? The bass that are there now and being caught are fish that have been there all summer and are now coming in from the depths to feed.

If its far from over, I would just like to know why you think that and where the bass are in your opinion that are coming in soon........

Boat guys are killing the fish in 60 foot of water off the south side of block, I call that bad news, they are streaming by. The ponds have winterover over fish but when will the migration start please fill me in, I dont want to miss it.

I will say this, its closer to over than being far from it :rotfl: