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nightfighter · 09-07-2009, 07:25 PM

Headed out around 0430 to attempt replacing the two dozen live pogies that were taken out of my bait hotels sometime Saturday night. No love in Salem harbor.... Headed out with just six from a blind set outside of Manchester, after picking up two crew there. Plan was to target bass, but we agreed to investigate the birds and crashing bait. We found ourselves in a hundred acres of blues, big blues. And the second one on the boat puked up a whole ballyhoo, or halfbeak!!!! This was maybe two miles offshore between islands in less than 30' of water. We had presumed they were on herring. Never seen the ballyhoo in so close, nevermind in such huge numbers.
No love from the bass though. And with so many blues, no wonder the pogies were so scarce. Given the ballyhoo we saw, we figure that is what we should be trying to mimic chasing tuna tomorrow.

09-07-2009, 07:25 PM	#1
nightfighter Seldom Seen iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 10,543	Weird day......weird bait Headed out around 0430 to attempt replacing the two dozen live pogies that were taken out of my bait hotels sometime Saturday night. No love in Salem harbor.... Headed out with just six from a blind set outside of Manchester, after picking up two crew there. Plan was to target bass, but we agreed to investigate the birds and crashing bait. We found ourselves in a hundred acres of blues, big blues. And the second one on the boat puked up a whole ballyhoo, or halfbeak!!!! This was maybe two miles offshore between islands in less than 30' of water. We had presumed they were on herring. Never seen the ballyhoo in so close, nevermind in such huge numbers. No love from the bass though. And with so many blues, no wonder the pogies were so scarce. Given the ballyhoo we saw, we figure that is what we should be trying to mimic chasing tuna tomorrow.
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