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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
Looking forward to picking up the new used boat in the next month and with a safer, drier and longer range ride under me finally; I want to explore the islands during a couple weeks off. I'm thinking I will take one week sometime in May-June and the other later in the year Aug-Sept.
Not looking for spots (just pm me the coordinates  ) and having caught my share of schoolies by the hundreds every winter, I want to focus on large. I also like a bent rod, so I'd be happy with numbers of 15-20 lbers, with the occasional shots at large. Now I don't want to be out there in October freezing my arse off, remember I'm 53 not 23, so what how would you split those weeks up, what would be your choice weeks?
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Bob, as Numbskull says, late June for casting along shore. As for being 53 as opposed to 23, well, if you feel that way your going to miss out on the best fishing of the year.
We catch a fair number of large fish in September tossing dannies and pp's ( Bernzy's Howdy in yellow is a killer at this time and will serve double duty on bass and False Albacore)
The absolute best Elizabeth Islands casting is From Columbus Day to the week after Thanksgiving with the zenith being the two weeks before Thanksgiving. We have had days where we are in snowsuits and spitting snow with the thermometer hovering at 21 degrees and we killed them.
The simple rule is early in the season the best fishing is from Robinson's East to Woods hole ( the water tends to be warmer at the eastern end of the chain and bait in the form of herring and squid dominate) in Fall it's the opposite from Robinson's to Cuttyhunk and the pigs.
Really all you need is danny plugs, Pencil Poppers and Bernzy's Howdy to cover the bases if you are plug oriented. Eels of course will catch all season especially in the fall and are taken readily in daylight.
The fun fishing, as Numbskull pointed out, is in the last weeks of May and the first two of June at Middleground. There with a jig head and rubber in pearl white you can ctach bass all day and if they are busting in the rip face you can toss un-weighted rubber or Pencils and have a really good time.
Hope that helps.