Anyone seen any fish
 

Havin a hard time putting the rods up. Has anyone seen any stripers around?Most of the snow is melted up here but not hearing about any action.Ron:fishin:

Where, in Maine? It's about over except on the Block and South to Montauk.

Lotsa BIG mackerel still around the N. Shore. Great eating this time of year and fun to catch....

There is still a lot of fish on the south side of the Cape

To be honest with you Piemma I looking for anywhere.Rhody was dead while down there at rhe end of Oct.. Nothing up here in So. Maine and NH has been about the same. Plum Island has a few little guys but beyond that nothing. Just seems to be no fall run anywhere to chase after.
i normally keep going till december but with no fish being reported got me concerned.
Bitme do you think those ish are the chatham fish finally moving? Ron

i WAS WATCHING THEM CATCH FISH ON THE SOUTH SHORE TODAY :fishin:

Mike, that's the first positive report I've heard about SoCo.

I spent the weekend hitting my favorite holes with live eels, something I haven't done since my kids were in kindergarten ...let's see, burned though $100 of gas, covered 200 miles and four location from eastern end of long island to west..never got a touch ,,same goes for the rest of my friends..pretty pathetic is you ask me
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Z- Thanks for the update, but aren't you really saying is that Montauk is RED HOT ?:rotf2::jump1: (only kidding)

Seems like this fall may be particulary unpredictable, but I'm hoping for a few more pods of fish to move through this month. Who knows ???

I'm north of you, and you've still got fish coming.

Just concerned as I'm not seeing or hearing of any migration schools.A small pod here n there but no what you normaly hear of in the way of fall schools moving.A few fish here n there isn't what we should be hearing about. Montauk,Rhody,The Block,The Vinryard,Nanatucket,most of the Cape and all the way up here have all have been close to dead since August.Too many places with too few fish being fished by a lot of good fishermen. This is like the end of December not the begining of November.Ron

Its really been more of a trickle of fish this year rather than a big push. Things started moving very early.

RI has been producing well for me, but back home in CT things are very quiet.

did you turn your clocks back .??

the last 7 - 8 years the fall run starts around labor day .thru september / this year was no exception .

For the most part . its Typical November fishing / small pods during the day .. smaller jig fish / nights .. increase the [day] count & add the chance of a med. to large .

you ,ll do better if you fish where the holdover season s start IMO :fishin:

Just guessing ><><><

You know, I bet I have posted 10 times that the Fall run starts a lot earlier than most of the guys realize. Mid-August is the start. We saw it back in the mid 90s when the Back would start lighting up with pods of large in mid to late August. August 28 of 96 I had 8 fish mid to high 40s# at Ballston. We saw it at the Canal this year. September was hot quite a few days. As the regulars like Tony O and Redlite.
We don't see that late Oct run like we use to. We don't see the huge schools of peanuts. We don't see the massive schools of Blueback herring with millions of Gannets diving on them. They move earlier and their feeding habits have changed as I see them keying on Bay Anchovies and adult Bunker.

I have seen exactly what Pimmea states. Schools of blitzin stripers hitting bait balls of bay anchovies. Late September in RI Sound.

I've kind of thought that they meander their way north following bait and temperature ( near shore ) and then in the fall they tighten up and screw south more quickly. Also tend to be a little more offshore in the fall.
We used to finish our season with a charter a long way south of nantucket in mid november and the water would be black with nice bass in those far away offshore rips. Great fun as long as you weren't on the camcorder.:yak5:

just an old farts two cents

Well we normally get some good shore fishing in Rhody in the fall as late as Thanksgiving but this yr it's been more than a bit on the dead side.Still little or no action on the Vineyard and still nothing in Rhody. The locals are all shaking their heads as this isn't the norm.A slow fall once in a while but not dead like this.The shops are even closed more than open as there's no fish.Hearing the locals talk tells me it,s not just bad timing on my part.The fish gotta be somewhere.Ron

Ron, we have seen the fish go by on the "outside" before but this year, I am telling (and you are not hearing me) THEY MOVED ALREADY!!!!
It's just straglers now. The big push was in the beginning of September.

Striper maniac - you're generalizing about entire states being dead. How many days this season have you actually fished in these places?


I smell the foul stench of a blatant agenda.
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LOL well at this point I'v not fished 18 days in 3 1/2 mos. The surf just hasn't had the fish it should.The Vineyard was about as bad as Anyone has ever seen and we never really had a season up here. August was very slow and from the sounds of things the regular fish just never made it past the outer cape with the schools that went through the canal the beginning os June staying between there an Boston harbor.Irene must have swept most of those fish south.I've gotten 4 fish since coming back from Rhody 2 weeks back none over 14 in.Too early to put the rods up.LOL

I've fished most days in September and October in Maine. Last year I saw the most action the last week of September. This year I took the last week of September off and didn't do as well as the year before. Murphy's law--the fishing really picked up the first week of October, then dropped off sharply mid-October. I don't wanna hang up my rods either. Been catchin some trout to ease the pain until I can jig togue.

18 days in a season.
Not exactly enough to go making proclamations about every area in New England.

I'll speak to the area in know - Cape Cod Bay had alot of fish, period. And the more crap I read one the internet about the bay being dead, the better I did the next day. The outer Cape had more - WAY more. It was absolutely ridiculous out there - solid Bass for 12 miles. Pretty easy to see why - the bait was so thick you could walk on it. There were so many sand eels there that a couple of days we had Humpback whales feeding in 40' of water. Why would any bass leave an area where they could just open their mouth and have their fill without even moving?

There's a problem with "hearing reports" - most guys that spend any time on the water talk the most when they aren't catching, and when they are they keep their Yaps shut.

Big jay You miss interprated it. I've missed 18 days in 3 plus months LOL.Many of those were travel days going from one location to another. Those that know me know that I put more hrs in fishing than most and long hard ones at that. I do a lot of 4 to 8 mile walks slingin plugs an eels.Bait was never an issue just stripers feedin on it on shore. Hard to see what surf fishing is like from a boat LOL.Only whales we see on the beach are pilot whales an few of them . Humpys on the beach aren't normally doin too well.All I'm looking for now is reason to travel as gas isn't cheap but my freinds south are all talkin the same.Maybe piemma's right but I hope not.

Was in SoCo this last Saturday night. Fished 3 separate locations real hard all night with live eels and frozen bunker. Not a tap and there were 4 of us fishing. Did see a drunk "mr. first timer" catch a schoolie on a breachway. Took him 10 minutes to unhook it, after about 10 pictures, then threw it into a rock not even hitting the water. The thing was dead by then I would imagine. Yes, I said something to him. He left soon after.

Hey Iceman is any of that bait still up in Quonny?The turn on the top of the outgoing was the only time I've found fish there lately.Especially after dark.

Smoked big Tog today,absolute insane bite... even got a codfish...you gotta fish for what is out there and abandoned everything else.
Bass fishing has turned into a big waste of time.

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Quonny appears to have been dead (out of bait) for at least 2 weeks now. I haven't laid eyes on mullet there in twice that long. The last morning bird armada coming down the channel was about 2 weeks ago. If you go up inside on the drop, nothing responds to a light on the water. Most of the silversides are gone, even.

Top of the tide still occasionally sees some "hopefuls" in the rips, but they move out quickly because there's nothing there for them to feed on. If you gear way down there are sometimes schoolies in the wash to the E of the breach, but even that's a spotty deal now. Most of the fish I keep from there have well-digested bait in them, rather than fresh-caught.

Yes, I spend way too much time there.