Question for the Rhody guys - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

TheSpecialist · 05-12-2001, 10:23 AM

If I get my live herring in Mass on my Mass freshwater Liscence, can I bring them to RI and use them or will I have a problem? Would I need some special RI liscence ? Want to be legal you know.

Clammer · 05-12-2001, 10:40 AM

No problem,go fishing == we need a license brcause we are going into freshwater to get the buckies// good luck

Saltheart · 05-12-2001, 12:30 PM

I would make sure not to exceed the limit in the state where you are taking them and the state where you will be fishing them.

TheSpecialist · 05-12-2001, 12:49 PM

I can take 25 a day in Mass, how many can you have with you in RI ???

Saltheart · 05-12-2001, 08:57 PM

Bob Senior · 05-13-2001, 09:08 AM

We got skunked at Gilbert Stuart yesterday afternoon. People pulled quite a few out as we were arriving around 2:30 in the afternoon, but they were very slow and we couldn't get one into the net--we had planned some live-lining off south shore beaches for last night but ended up plugging them to death at the Wall instead!

Question: For how long do they run? Is the first alewife run about over, or does it keep on keepin' on for a few more weeks? Also, isn't there another run later in the season after the "fist" run?

JohnR · 05-13-2001, 10:23 AM

Hey Bob, Had zilch near my house too yesterday. Hit three herring spots and nada. Tuesday you could walk across fish at all three barefoot and not get wet they were so loaded... Hopefullty they are just hanging out in the ponds...

Many of these runs have a big dump out of herringin mid-late May with some places letting ot smaller numbers until mid june (I'm told). I still thinks it's a little early to be loosing all of the runs but several things can happen:

Somedays they are just hanging in the ponds and not concentrated at the runs.

They are tide dependent. Even though the tide would have not visual effect way up stream, the buckys seem to know and you're more likely to find them at mid tides at some spots (the way it was Tuesday but not last night when I wen shortly before high)... Take that with a grain of salt (or two) as I'm still learning these runs...

Bob Senior · 05-13-2001, 12:45 PM

Yuh, maybe it was the affect of the tide that slowed them down.

The Wall was great last night. The Mambo's worked well too.

After coming up empty yesterday at G.S., we tried to get a couple at Middlebridge with shad darts and tiny tins. We got a couple of bait-sized stripers but no herring. Yesterday was a great day--trying to get bait to get stripers, and all we could get were stripers!!!

TheSpecialist · 05-13-2001, 12:47 PM

John went to watertown last night 1 dip of the net and I filled my limit. I was really po'd though , because there were some guys there taking 100-300 at a time. They were working in 3 and four man teams. Some were going into the crevice on the Newton side and the y were killing alot of herring. they were lucky the warden wasn't there. Is it better to fill my bait tank with salt water or the water from the run? Anyway my wife and I went to the Canal last night , lots of fishermen and women, few fish.

JohnR · 05-13-2001, 03:10 PM

Specialist - that pi$$es me off too. Last year one fellow got nabbed a couple times as each member of his family had a permit (including the dog) but were "unavailable" when the DEP fellow was around, but yeh, that happens all too often there. Not even a slap on the wrist, dump the herring (half of 'em are already dead) and a fine... There are also some low-lifes in there at times and if you made a stink there liable to toss you off the falls... I don't mind it too much when someone squirles away a few fish for the table to feed his family because he really need too but that was pure greed. If you ever need to drop a dime on something that bad, the Environmental police are at 800-632-8075...

Best thing you can do is to be sure that the water has a mix of what they are in (any marine bios want to jump in here? :P ). If I'm not going to fish them right away what I "like" to do when I can is to put some saltwater (like half) in the tank and fill the rest with the water they came from (sure, your truck'll stink a little with Charles River water but...). That appeared to help in the transition for them...