Here are some of the results.....
Went to Salem Harbor on last Saturday, 9:00AM-3:00PM.....pretty slow..fished the breakers (the rock islands just south of Bakers Island)....caught one blue trolling a tube 'n worm...then caught about 5 stripers (between 5 and 10lbs) throwing herring chunks into the rough water near the rocks.
Also caught several sea gulls and one cormorant who kept trying to steal our bait!......practiced catch and release with the birds.
What was nice was that I parked at the public pier...near the RT 1A bridge.....20 minute max tie up time, but I walked up to the bait store right across the street.....forget the name.....but they had decent bait and tackle. Funny thing was that I asked a guy in the Beverly harbor master boat if there was a bait shop on 1A...he told me NO.....luckily I pulled out the binocs and there was a big sign not one block away that said B-A-I-T.....Jeff and I told the store owner about the bad info we had received...needless to say, the last we saw, he was running down to the harbor master's boat to 'tell him the store hours and some other things'!!
BE CAREFUL using the ramp on the Danvers River in Salem (off Kernwood St
http://www.state.ma.us/dfwele/PAB/pabpdfs/PAB-83.PDF) It's was unuseable from 1/2 hour before and after low tide. I actually waited for 1 1/2 hours to get my boat out!
Fished the Merrimack on Tuesday 5:00AM - 12:00PM and caught about twenty on clams and herring chunks.....no blues around off Plum Island (although i the fog, I couldn't see very far) but I never marked bait/fish on the Lowrance. It's definately slow...but we caught enough to keep Idaho Jeff happy!
Going back to the Merrimack tomorrow night.
Jim