Jellyfish
 

Everywhere in Salem Harbor, about the size and shape of plum tomatoes, they have been around all year, but not in the numbers they are now, at night my prop wash is full of their luminescent flashing. I think it's having a real negative affect to the fishing, out Wed. morning, dead calm, not a hint of surface action, not even bait, and I know there's a ton of fish around, unless I accidently changed the sounder to demo mode. Water temp was real low too, 55. Only managed a couple blues on the tube and worm. How are other people doing on the North Shore, anyone catching?

Those little jellyfish are abundant in Gloucester Harbor as well and the fishing in and around the Harbor is slow at best. However, get outside the harbor and off the rocks and there are fish to be had. No blitzes as of yet but plenty of small and mid-sized fish in the wash. That big NE blow this morning made fishing a task but hopefully will push the bait closer as we head into the stretch up here...
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jellyfish=bait=stripers

You're absolutely right about that Scott, ridiculous amounts of little fry in the water, as well as tons of squid from 6" on up, pogies as well but they're getting harder to find in snagable (is that a word?) numbers. Too bad stripers don't eat jellies, I'd love to see you try to make a jellyfish lure. Hmm, Salty's Jerkin' Jelly, sounds like a winner, I want naming royalties when it goes into production. :btu:

That's something that I've always found is that when you find a concentration of jellyfish you'll usually find stripers very close. I used to think it was horsepucky until I started watching it closer a few years ago. The only thing I could explain it with is small bait being drawn in and the normal predator cycle.