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BNolan · 10-26-2001, 12:39 PM

Hey Seawolf,This is why I do not post much anymore,its comments like that.I never said there would not be any fish after november.What I said was the chances for a monster pass fairly quick after that date.If there is no bait to hold'em,they keep on tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&! You can catch all the rat bass you want well up until thanksgiving,.But the big ones are very hard to find.You need to be in the right place at the right time.Right Now is the right time.Rhode island has not had a good seaherring run in the fall since 1991,in fact, most of the daytime fishing the last 4 or 5 years has been big bluefish and very little else.The pattern has been that the bass just head off the cape and islands and head past the south of block island withouit swingin in to rhodys mainland.Its possible to luck into a school or two of decent fish but, its really a crapshoot.Im convinced that the big run of good bass we had a naps the past few years were the same school or two of fish that had just hung around there for the last week of october and the first week of november.In my opinion it was never different schools each night, we were sticking the same school of bass.When the bait took off,they took off.I remember catching 7 fish one night all in the 30lb range and getting not one hit the next,just like a switch they were gone.The reason they stayed as long as they did was the fact that the area had an unusuall amount of baby juvinile lobsters in tight to the rocks that time of the year since 1994 or so.My last night of fishing would always be the night before thanksgiving,after that it was around the 12th of november.But there were still plenty of school bass to be had after that right into december! I just had better things to do than add my numbers.

But, I have no experiance so please ask someone who has.

Saltheart, its never to windy if the wind is right! When a big cold front is just about to come in,its gets the bass feeding bigtime.Problem is it doesnt last long.Once the wind goes steady northwest or northeast for a couple of days,things shut off.Unless you want to head to the breachway on the ebb and plug up schoolbass all night long, which is fun but. Thousands of big bass can pass up rhode islands coast in a day or two when the winds blow offshore,those fish are lost until next year.

10-26-2001, 12:39 PM	#14
BNolan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: RI Posts: 14	Hey Seawolf,This is why I do not post much anymore,its comments like that.I never said there would not be any fish after november.What I said was the chances for a monster pass fairly quick after that date.If there is no bait to hold'em,they keep on tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&! You can catch all the rat bass you want well up until thanksgiving,.But the big ones are very hard to find.You need to be in the right place at the right time.Right Now is the right time.Rhode island has not had a good seaherring run in the fall since 1991,in fact, most of the daytime fishing the last 4 or 5 years has been big bluefish and very little else.The pattern has been that the bass just head off the cape and islands and head past the south of block island withouit swingin in to rhodys mainland.Its possible to luck into a school or two of decent fish but, its really a crapshoot.Im convinced that the big run of good bass we had a naps the past few years were the same school or two of fish that had just hung around there for the last week of october and the first week of november.In my opinion it was never different schools each night, we were sticking the same school of bass.When the bait took off,they took off.I remember catching 7 fish one night all in the 30lb range and getting not one hit the next,just like a switch they were gone.The reason they stayed as long as they did was the fact that the area had an unusuall amount of baby juvinile lobsters in tight to the rocks that time of the year since 1994 or so.My last night of fishing would always be the night before thanksgiving,after that it was around the 12th of november.But there were still plenty of school bass to be had after that right into december! I just had better things to do than add my numbers. But, I have no experiance so please ask someone who has. Saltheart, its never to windy if the wind is right! When a big cold front is just about to come in,its gets the bass feeding bigtime.Problem is it doesnt last long.Once the wind goes steady northwest or northeast for a couple of days,things shut off.Unless you want to head to the breachway on the ebb and plug up schoolbass all night long, which is fun but. Thousands of big bass can pass up rhode islands coast in a day or two when the winds blow offshore,those fish are lost until next year.