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I also got out for the first time in Boston waters yesterday afternoon. All I had was a tiny sabiki with a 2" jig for weight. Mackeral snapped all the small hooks on the rig but I did manage to land a half dozen 12" macks on the jig. All the fish seemed to be holding at 20' from the surface which was about as deep as I could get the rig with the NE wind picking up. I kept a couple in the live well and brought them to my herring hotel at the dock. This morning both were alive and swimming. As to the bait I didn't see any surface action, which was the original purpose of the trip, but last year around May 8th I encountered herring outside by the Light. I dragged a 9" CA through the school and picked up a 38" fish, along with a bunch of smaller schoolies on a small jig. We just got back from the CH Bay and Delaware Bay and the consensus is the season is running 2-3 weeks behind last years. Water temp. in the Del. Bay/river was 55 last weekend, 50 outside Boston Harbor. Might be time to liveline a herring in the Back River for the first 30 lb'er of the season.
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