Crunch Time - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

JohnR · 10-12-2006, 07:03 AM

Yes, it is crunch time. The fish are moving, the weather is deteriorating, the wind down is near. How will you approach the next month?

BigFish · 10-12-2006, 07:05 AM

I am of the opinion that here in Ma it has not even begun yet! Its deadsville up here right now! I will keep hitting it hard for the next 3 weeks at least as I have been...not much to show as yet!

BEETLE · 10-12-2006, 07:26 AM

It's begun boys - this came from a UDL SHORE locale last night along with 6 other of it's brothers and sisters. Was good to have line peeling off the reel, and screaming drag.

TIME TO GET TO WORK BOYZ

Adamfishes · 10-12-2006, 07:24 AM

Since the fish are moving should I not be fishing in any rivers? I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be but I really like to.....

Slingah · 10-12-2006, 07:38 AM

I will be going out as much as possible....fish are on the move now and have been for weeks....while I have not seen the feeding frenzy yet as years past ....still picking up a couple good fish almost every trip out......I dont believe it is deadsville....just short windows...and will light up at any moment.....it will happen...it's just a matter of being there when it does.
I have had my most successful nites locally when I have been alone and I hit it for hours almost every nite.....I dont have the time to that this year....but still have confidence that I'll get a few good ones

tper · 10-12-2006, 07:53 AM

Fish everytime out -- nothing large yet but they are moving -- 28' - 33' fish are becoming common.. Get am today -- but work got in the way and had to leave a lot of fish.... Have at it

afterhours · 10-12-2006, 07:56 AM

beetle- what a well porportioned fish! nice!

Flaptail · 10-12-2006, 08:53 AM

Same as I do every year, After Thanksgivving I stop the serious fishing and hunt schoolies in creeks and trout fish with the skiff and mini riggers until the ice comes then ice fish till it melys then they stock trout in March and then trout fishng till the second week in April then to Cotuit till May then Mid May in Barnstable till the first of June then the beach and WHOA........i AM IN A VISCIOUS CIRCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sluggoslinger · 10-12-2006, 09:11 AM

I try to get out in the AM before work for about 45m. Fish weekends when I have the chance. I might fish Chatham on Saturday night. Basically any chance I have to make it out I'll take.

ProfessorM · 10-12-2006, 09:32 AM

I'll be starting to hit the outgoing tides at the mouths of the numerous bays along the capes south side in the next week or 2 with eels at dusk. There are a lot of big fish that do the same towards the end of this month. Not high quanity but high quality. Heavy tackle time leave the schoolie stuff at home. Wish I still lived down that way so I could go every night for an hour or two, now I just have to hope I hit it right. Met an old timer many years ago at one such place and he told me if you are willing to stand on the many jettys along the south coast of the cape and freeze your butt off into Nov. then you will have a chance at a large fish but you have to put your time in. Seperates the men from the boys. You will be questioning yourself as to why the hell you are the only one fishing still and have not seen a soul in the past several times out and boy is it cold and windy. Hopefully you will find out. P.

Striperhound · 10-12-2006, 11:27 AM

dress warm and fish hard in Rhode Island until Thanksgiving week. Thanksgiving week I move camp to Long Island for a few weeks to keep on those Rhode Island fish that rounded Montauk.

cheferson · 10-12-2006, 12:44 PM

GF is going back home to poland tomorrow night so its non-stop fishing for me until my hands freeze

Back Beach · 10-12-2006, 01:47 PM

A two state, four location all nighter w/redlite planned for this evening.Pray for us.Should be interesting...Mucho toro colorado.

RIJIMMY · 10-12-2006, 02:04 PM

translation , a lot of Red Bull?

spence · 10-12-2006, 02:07 PM

Yes, that's what it means

-spence

tattoobob · 10-12-2006, 02:33 PM

I will be fishing hard till the saturday after thanksgiving unless it says hot, I usually go till I get skunked 5 times in a row, time for all nighters then work then a couple hours of sleep and then all nighters again over and over and over, It is time to walk around like a zombie for the next month

piemma · 10-12-2006, 02:50 PM

I thought so....Linda Rondstadt is great!!!

nightfighter · 10-12-2006, 07:44 PM

Was supposed to be at the Cuttyhunk Fishing Club this weekend, which is their last for the season, but plans got fouled up. Work keeps getting in the way as we try to get the outdoor projects done before snow....
Still, I plan on taking a couple of days here and there to chase from the surf, locally and roadtrips south as the window closes up here in a couple of weeks. Getting out most mornings and after work. Surf was too much for me tonight, since I was the only soul where Doc got his fish. Just not safe conditions in the dark. I know there are good size fish around... Still chasing schoolie blitzes in the harbors though. Kayak is likely done for this year.

BasicPatrick · 10-12-2006, 08:56 PM

That school of 30/40 lb fish that was in the Canal 6-10 days ago went NORTH and is currently off Deluxbury.

Montauk is slow...23 lbs won the Montauk classic Tourney

MV Derby is slow, antucket Month Long was won by small fish

Boston Haba is on fire with the right baits....nice fish Beetle (and others)

The run might have begun but there is plenty left to go around....

Fishing every weekend once I leave MV (still here for a few more days)

Move over E#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&... I'll be there in a week...lol

UserRemoved1 · 10-12-2006, 02:06 PM

beetle i recognize that telephone i know where you were

jim sylvester · 10-13-2006, 01:25 PM

beef up you gear, now is not the time to have any question in your mind on any hit you get

move to areas that are known to produce big fish in the late months....check the log books

some places are more obvious than others

work hard.....pick your tides and you will be rewarded

last years biggest fish came the week of halloween for me.. we have a month left of big fish...make the best of it

JoeP · 10-13-2006, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by jim sylvester

last years biggest fish came the week of halloween for me.. we have a month left of big fish...make the best of it

Agreed Jim. My best night last year was October 28 - cold, calm, and many big fish...

Vogt · 10-13-2006, 05:20 PM

In Ct. I will be fishing right into December. In my spots in western Ct. there are always some large left past thanks giving, decent numbers too.

tattoobob · 10-13-2006, 05:43 PM

Very interesting I have a mental note and will be following around piemma, jim sylvester, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, RIROCKHOUND, & JFigliuolo to all the 30 pound fishing spots

LINESIDES · 10-13-2006, 06:07 PM

Ile bite! Ile agree with every thing Eel Man says. Their are still allot of unanswered question to this topic. Answers that we may never know.
Where ever you fish, you should start sooner than you think, and stay longer than you would in the fall. I know this makes for allot of boring nights, but I think it may pay off to the right person in the right place. I don’t know where some of the fish I see come from. I have been at this for 46 years now. Are there any beliefs and or thoughts on the Canadian factor? Sorry to do this to every body. May be this should have been another thread. However, the topic has moved around to migration.
Later, L

tattoobob · 10-14-2006, 11:22 AM

So do you think they hit the Gulf Stream and travel that way?

LINESIDES · 10-14-2006, 11:57 AM

Bob, yes you can smell them! As well as bait, blues, and tuna.
As far as Stripers go, I have no idea what they are doing! I thought there may be some kind of silent boycott of me, with no replies to this subject. Over 1200 hits and not one idea. I am suprised.
Or did I open a subject that is tabu?