First push gone through? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Back Beach · 09-12-2011, 09:04 AM

Seemed pretty blitzy in alot of locations for 3-4 days, then slow. I think the first push of fall fish has come and gone. What are you guys who surf fish the northeast seeing?

Bronko · 09-12-2011, 09:13 AM

Yep. Only a few waves left. Just have to be there when they push by. (I wasn't last week, but hope to be on the water for the next feeding)
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bart · 09-12-2011, 09:32 AM

LARGE fish moved from where they were holding, but still saw some decent fish taken last night among the blues...

piemma · 09-12-2011, 09:50 AM

Canal has been very quiet for a few days. I fished from 2 to 7 this morning with eels and had one teen fish for all my efforts.

Finlander · 09-12-2011, 12:52 PM

Thurday and Friday bass to 30 on the Cape and not the canal, had sand under my feet, Saturday they were gone but so was the weather.

JohnnySaxatilis · 09-12-2011, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Finlander

Thurday and Friday bass to 30 on the Cape and not the canal, had sand under my feet, Saturday they were gone but so was the weather.

wed thurs friday last week fish were biting from race to the ditch to gansett from the information ive put together. as soon as it got nice out. poof

jimmy z · 09-12-2011, 01:41 PM

It's funny. This pushing usually continued into late Oct. and even early Nov. years back. I even went in late November some years back and remember getting bass! I fish SoCo RI!

Adam_777 · 09-12-2011, 05:35 PM

Damn it I missed it.Well there is always next year !

Jackbass · 09-12-2011, 05:43 PM

Tough fishing this wkend. I fished the ditch and had two fish in a 24 hour period. There were fish swirling on top in many locations with no takes.
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bart · 09-12-2011, 10:24 PM

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It's funny. This pushing usually continued into late Oct. and even early Nov. years back. I even went in late November some years back and remember getting bass! I fish SoCo RI!

I still fish there til Dec 1st, but it's nothing like it used to be. You could usually get 15-20 lb fish with some bigger on plugs all the way til the end at certain spots. I remember a woman got a 50 one year on a chunk right around Dec 1st. Not so much anymore...

Nebe · 09-12-2011, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Adam_777

Damn it I missed it.Well there is always next year !

Crap. Oh well

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JohnnySaxatilis · 09-13-2011, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jackbass

Tough fishing this wkend. I fished the ditch and had two fish in a 24 hour period. There were fish swirling on top in many locations with no takes.
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they were finicky as a bastage today too, but my secret weapon saved the day with a couple gorilla toothed ones. A sinking custom made green needle by BACK BEACH. I came to own it via westportmafia who made me drink the dregs of the dewarts pint at 230am extremely intoxicated in order to get it.

thanks backbeach! By the way that finish is tough as nails! even when the blue devil was fully chomping on the back end it didnt flake or peel. nice pluggage

Back Beach · 09-13-2011, 10:43 AM

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thanks backbeach! By the way that finish is tough as nails! even when the blue devil was fully chomping on the back end it didnt flake or peel. nice pluggage

You heathen!!! You threw one of my plugs into a school of bluefish???

Glad to hear the paint stayed on, though. Many of my other plug recipients haven't been so lucky...

Last night I had the first zero in my last 8 trips. Not that I've been killing them, but its been a steady pick of small to medium fish for the last two weeks where I've been. Still haven't broken 25# from shore this year yet...

Maybe the next push will produce a big one for me.

piemma · 09-13-2011, 10:53 AM

[Maybe the next push will produce a big one for me.[/QUOTE]

I certainly hope not!!

You, young man, have not paid your dues nor put in your time this year. Unlike this old bastage that has driven 100K back and forth to the Ditch.

I curse the day you showed me some trick for the Canal.

Addicted I am.

Successful, not so much.

Rockfish9 · 09-13-2011, 11:53 AM

No doubt there has been some movement... it was to be expected... rivers to the north got roiled with mud pushing out fish that were lounging in the summer sun.. bait fish drops in those rivers got flushed seaward,.. we had two major events.. a hurrcian and a full moon... either one on it's own with the shortening of days and cooling of the waters would have provided some movement... and add them all up.. it becomes a trigger...it's only the begining.. there wil be more to come...it's only the second week of September.

intrepid24 · 09-13-2011, 12:31 PM

Well, I never saw a push,pull or anything else plugging from the east end of east beach in westport. No birds,blues,bones.....nothing..yet!!!
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Back Beach · 09-13-2011, 12:57 PM

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Well, I never saw a push,pull or anything else plugging from the east end of east beach in westport. No birds,blues,bones.....nothing..yet!!!
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That area has been pretty dead for awhile according to some stone throwing freak I know who lives down there..maybe the fish are afraid to get bonked off the head so they don't come in close any more.

Sea Dangles · 09-13-2011, 02:02 PM

boat fishing is on fire for bass and albis from wpt to skt pt.

Back Beach · 09-13-2011, 03:39 PM

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boat fishing is on fire for bass and albis from wpt to skt pt.

If this is true, why were you shore fishing the other night?

jimmy z · 09-13-2011, 03:50 PM

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I still fish there til Dec 1st, but it's nothing like it used to be. You could usually get 15-20 lb fish with some bigger on plugs all the way til the end at certain spots. I remember a woman got a 50 one year on a chunk right around Dec 1st. Not so much anymore...

I know, I was out there one cold night when it was icing. I think it was the last week of Nov. some years back. There were a few of us die hard regulars at the end of the rocks. No one was catching! The rest of the guys were walking up the channel to the lot, and I was the last one there. I tied on a pink/black danny and cast into the out flow, not ten seconds later, wham! I got my biggest bass of that year.
That was it for the night, and for that season as well.

RIROCKHOUND · 09-13-2011, 04:04 PM

Yup... PIemma fished Quonny in the snow late one season; after almost going in on the slush, even w/ korkers on, we bailed and called it a season.....

I've seen bluefish chunked off the beach as late as Dec 7th a few years back... late fall fishing all boils down to one thing... herring....

basswipe · 09-13-2011, 04:16 PM

1st push,its early September!Hasn't even started yet as far as I'm concerned.Can't wait for October when it really starts!Hell November has always treated me well.

basswipe · 09-13-2011, 04:20 PM

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Yup... PIemma fished Quonny in the snow late one season; after almost going in on the slush, even w/ korkers on, we bailed and called it a season.....

I've seen bluefish chunked off the beach as late as Dec 7th a few years back... late fall fishing all boils down to one thing... herring....

Dec 1st 1986 the day before I went into the AF I slayed dozens of 18-22lb blues that were hearding gigantic pogies up on the beach.One of the most unreal fishing seens.

spence · 09-13-2011, 04:30 PM

When I was in Vegas this spring I didn't gamble all week then won 16 bucks after dropping two quarters into a slot right before my aircraft boarded.

Might apply the same strategy here.

-spence

WESTPORTMAFIA · 09-13-2011, 05:05 PM

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Well, I never saw a push,pull or anything else plugging from the east end of east beach in westport. No birds,blues,bones.....nothing..yet!!!
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Don't hold your breath. No fish showed there last year either. When they do it's usually blues anyway for the most part. Not the best spot to be imo
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bart · 09-13-2011, 05:06 PM

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Yup... PIemma fished Quonny in the snow late one season; after almost going in on the slush, even w/ korkers on, we bailed and called it a season.....

I've seen bluefish chunked off the beach as late as Dec 7th a few years back... late fall fishing all boils down to one thing... herring....

You're right, Bryan. A few years ago there was a push of big bass and monster blues that were on herring in westerly the last week of Nov. Of course the day I went down it was only monster blues(I'll take that any day in Nov) but the days before and after had nice fish blitzing...