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not owning a boat was asked out by a few friends and I'm not one to turn down an invitation, 5/31 caught more fish in a 3.5 - 4 hour period than I think I did last year smallest bass was about 17.5 - 18lbs kept as table fish for mom and dad. That set the boat fishing pace for the month. Wasnt like that all month, but once you found the bait you could pretty much target fish 20lbs or better at will, but you had to work for 'em. Thanks for all the help with the boat stuff guys you know who you are. It wasnt just snag and drop a pogie on their heads, at times it was but more often than not we had to hustle for them.
Shore fishing for the month was a bit slow but I had a steady pick of high teen pound fish to low and mid 20 lb fish. Most of it was doing things I in places I normally wouldnt do, but hey I found the fish, so maybe its stuff I should be doing more often. I ended June on Marthas Vineyard where I was able to find fish every night out, and with the bright moon was fishing pretty much the same way I would fish a bluebird day at noon. Pencil poppers, spooks etc. My buddy ended up taking a nice 28lb fish in bright moonlight on a spook(in the old ccbc wonderbread pattern). The sandeels were the bait fo choice for some fly guys we met while on the island and they average 30-40 fish a night, fly guys measure in inches so they said they had them to 35 inches. We (candi) and I took the girls 7 & 10 out for their first true nights of striper fishing on MV and they managed 6 to 10 fish a piece throwing 1/8th ounce storm shads on light spinning rods with 15lb test fireline and 10lb flouro leaders. Candi managed a keeper fluke using the same setup. Fishing for the small fish with the kids we'd do 30-35 fish a night with a few small keeper sized fish mixed in, and the occasional flounder. Candi dropped a nice one that would have gone 10lbs easy, she was fishing real light using 6lb test flouro line with no leader and a 1/8th ounce storm in bunker pattern. Fishing with the girls was usually about 4-5 hours a night then we would put the girls to bed and my buddy and I would burn the midnight oil. My last day fishing in RI in june was Friday the 22nd into saturday june 23rd and again fishing unconventional locations with conventional methods my buddy managed his personal best, the fish was nice and round taken on a white gibbs 3 hook darter.(the screw eyes held fine) Have been back for about 5 days now and back to work so chances are the 6th will be my first night out for real, have broken out the fly rod and have walked and walked beaches but havent gotten too serious into hunting yet, maybe I'll get serious friday night. Good luck everyone, be safe.
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