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08-24-2015, 08:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: North Dartmouth, MA
Posts: 238
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Bait!
Just left New Bedford harbor on a glass calm morning. I can say without exaggeration that I have never seen so much bait in my life. From silversides to bay anchovies to peanut bunker, the size and frequency of the schools has me in disbelief... Literally. I've been noticing tons of bait the past few weeks throughout the entirety or Buzzards Bay, but today set a new record. A great sign.
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08-24-2015, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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It has been amazing - no shortage of forage. Finding the baitfish is not a problem - finding bait with gamefish has been the challenge for me.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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08-24-2015, 09:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,691
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DZ
It has been amazing - no shortage of forage. Finding the baitfish is not a problem - finding bait with gamefish has been the challenge for me.
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Yesterday down the street from my house.... Schools of mackerel. I couldn't believe it but the guy with half a bucket full could.
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08-24-2015, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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i was yesterday morning. Left marina to see schools of pogies everywhere. got out front and saw birds working. Nothing breaking but the birds were moving fast. Looked Boney. Through in a tin and caught a mackerel. I cruise over the bait and its giant schools of Macks. IN NPT!!!! Bonito vomiting up silversides everywhere. Peanut bunker all over. I have my fingers crossed but I think this is the year we see some inshore SBF tuna action.
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08-24-2015, 09:41 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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My shore-caught bone came on a live mack last year Lol!
In the past week I've fished RI and the Cape and I honestly don't think I've ever seen so much bait in my life, either.
What I've seen...mackerel, pogies, peanuts, bay anchovies, spearing, squid, juvie hickory shad, needlefish, sand eels, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
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08-24-2015, 10:10 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Originally Posted by bassballer
i was yesterday morning. Left marina to see schools of pogies everywhere. got out front and saw birds working. Nothing breaking but the birds were moving fast. Looked Boney. Through in a tin and caught a mackerel. I cruise over the bait and its giant schools of Macks. IN NPT!!!! Bonito vomiting up silversides everywhere. Peanut bunker all over. I have my fingers crossed but I think this is the year we see some inshore SBF tuna action.
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Summer runs of tinker mack's were common in my youth in the harbor. Used to jig them at the dock or causeway... they make AWESOME fluke bait... |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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08-24-2015, 10:12 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12,632
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
Summer runs of tinker mack's were common in my youth in the harbor. Used to jig them at the dock or causeway... they make AWESOME fluke bait...
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yup, used to spend days at the navy piers jigging them as a kid...so happy to see them around, kept bumping into them last week, the upper Sakonnet is brimming with peanuts, great to see |
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08-24-2015, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 151
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It's the same story here in CT. Tons of bait not a predator to be found.
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08-24-2015, 10:50 AM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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That's it, I am moving to the south shore! While the local river is chock-o-block full of baitfish, the harbor and oceanfront have been showing no such signs! Someone will debate this I am sure, but Cape Ann has been cursed the last few seasons. Fall "Runs" seem to run right past us and blitzes have been rare occurrences as well.
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"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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08-24-2015, 11:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bart
My shore-caught bone came on a live mack last year Lol!
In the past week I've fished RI and the Cape and I honestly don't think I've ever seen so much bait in my life, either.
What I've seen...mackerel, pogies, peanuts, bay anchovies, spearing, squid, juvie hickory shad, needlefish, sand eels, and I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
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Same here, plus juvenile herring. There seems to be a lot of cold pockets of water moving around as well. This past weekend was the best weekend I have had since spring and even better than most of those days. Only wish I didn't leave my riggies in the car in the garage since yesterday morning. Walking into a wall of stank dead eels when you open your garage door will sure wake you up before work.  
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08-24-2015, 11:52 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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Originally Posted by spinncognito
That's it, I am moving to the south shore! While the local river is chock-o-block full of baitfish, the harbor and oceanfront have been showing no such signs! Someone will debate this I am sure, but Cape Ann has been cursed the last few seasons. Fall "Runs" seem to run right past us and blitzes have been rare occurrences as well.
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maybe the boat guys will debate it, but if you are fishing from shore or near-shore in a kayak the fishing has not been good..
last week I had macks and pollock no problem, trolled them all over creation without a sniff. A couple of weeks before that though I had multiple fish to 20lbs so who the hell knows! |
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08-24-2015, 06:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,371
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went out this AM as most have said bait everywhere.. saw 2 bonita chasing Mac,s very cool . huge schools of tinkers macks big schools of schoolie bass and blues. ended the day with 7 diffrent fish. bass ,blues, mack, skate,fluke,seabass and sea robin
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08-24-2015, 09:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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in LIS we have bunker, silversides, juvie herring, peanut bunker, little squid, butterfish, and (reportedly) tinker makerel.....
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08-25-2015, 06:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,515
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South side Mid Cape loaded
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08-25-2015, 07:11 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Weymouth, MA Fore River
Posts: 1,258
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I read all this and it tells me 2 things that we are doing well at. Protecting the bait fish and targeting / catching the game fish.
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08-25-2015, 07:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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My son called me yesterday from the local Newport surf - said there was bait and birds stretching for almost a quarter mile as far as his line of sight. Occasional splashes - but not even a strike in 1 hour of casting into it. He was thinking it was mackerel pushing bay anchovies - but no game fish.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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08-25-2015, 08:42 AM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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agreed. Last 2 years have been all but the worst I have ever seen
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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08-25-2015, 05:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 239
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I've seen herring, adult bunker, peanuts, sand eels and silversides this season with 60+ trips this season, only time I saw fish on bait was at Cuttyhunk in the spring.
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08-26-2015, 04:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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Anyone notice the water temp in NPT lately?
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08-26-2015, 05:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,371
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I saw low 70's
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08-26-2015, 06:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,395
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Quote:
Originally Posted by big jay
Anyone notice the water temp in NPT lately?
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Yup. Hit 76 out front today.
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08-26-2015, 08:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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Explains alot...
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08-26-2015, 09:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: somerset
Posts: 37
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77.4 in the mouth of the Sakonnet this morning
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09-02-2015, 12:26 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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Did somebody say bait? Oh my Lord. It's just plain ridiculous out there!
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09-02-2015, 01:17 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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crazy. entire bay is paved with bait.
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i bent my wookie
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