So How Do You Think The Fall Is Shaping Up? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BigFish · 09-04-2010, 06:52 AM

Last Fall was a bust for many.....how do you think this Fall season is shaping up so far? Lots more bait this Fall for sure!

slow eddie · 09-04-2010, 07:36 AM

hopefully the peanuts will show up in rhody this fall. last 2 yrs. were a bust as far as bait was concerned.

WoodyCT · 09-04-2010, 10:01 AM

Ummm...Larry.... It doesn't start for another couple weeks.

It's still summah!

I hope it shapes up for us down here, because the last couple have been grounds for taking up killing furry things with guns.
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StriperWriter · 09-04-2010, 10:51 AM

Boston harbor should be quite an impressive display of nature this fall run. More bait in the harbor than any year I can remember...

t.orlando · 09-04-2010, 11:23 AM

It already started. First batch of fish moved south last week.

piemma · 09-07-2010, 03:26 AM

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It already started. First batch of fish moved south last week.

Correct a mundo. Most of the guys still think the move starts in Oct. I have been saying for years that the first push is in August. I use to kill em at Ballston in late August.

Jimmy Fee · 09-07-2010, 11:20 AM

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Correct a mundo. Most of the guys still think the move starts in Oct. I have been saying for years that the first push is in August. I use to kill em at Ballston in late August.

My introduction to Cape surfcasting came on that beach in late August of 2001 or 2002. I was visiting from Philadelphia, and within 2 casts with eels after sundown, my old man had a 40 on the sand. One of 3 fish a few pounds either side of that mark he had that night. I fished a bomber/red gill and had 15- to 30-pounders every other cast. Visited every summer up to 2006, and every year the ratio of bass to seals seemed to swing a little more in favor of the seals.

Since moving to the Cape, I've yet to go there though. Maybe worth a look this week. There's no way all the cows are gone from up that way.

Clogston29 · 09-04-2010, 03:15 PM

I don't like these storms followed up with days of offshore winds for up this way. Fishing was just getting good before that northeaster. Not so much since.
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Dick Durand · 09-07-2010, 07:34 AM

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I don't like these storms followed up with days of offshore winds for up this way. Fishing was just getting good before that northeaster. Not so much since.
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Ditto - pre-Earl was far more productive for me. This past week has been a struggle to catch anything at all. I've just heard a couple of stories from other guys about the big one that got away.

Raven · 09-07-2010, 10:00 AM

the LONGEST fall SEASON we'll ever see.....

WEATHER WISE !!! according to the F.A.

SAUERKRAUT · 09-06-2010, 08:14 PM

The Fall Bass Run shaping up? Well, let's see now-- I just took a long, fun gas burning beautiful Labor Day boat ride up Vineyard Sound, around Gay Head to Squibnockett; the around Noman's Island, and came back home via Cuttyhunk Sow and Pigs and along the S. shore of the Elizabeths. I didn't see one pod of anything called baitfish or any small feeding fish. Not one tern or seagull in the air. Nothing. Water seems like a Rachel Carson book Silent Spring.

And a million "reported" pounds of summering population commercial striped bass recently harvested...where the He.. do you think my Fall Run stripers are going to come from in the next six weeks, New Jersey?

tysdad115 · 09-07-2010, 05:26 AM

Three days,one schoolie...WTF!
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Rockfish9 · 09-07-2010, 06:36 AM

Fish have definatly been on the move... different age classes each night, mixing with the "residents"... they seem to have had an attitude change since "Earl"... fish that were tapping and toying with baits are smashing them like each meal is the "last supper"...

tlapinski · 09-07-2010, 06:43 AM

In the last 2 weeks I have seen TONS of bait, lots of bluefish and taken bass of 37, 38 and 40 pounds. So far the fall is shaping up just fine for me.

Sea Dangles · 09-07-2010, 07:00 AM

Looks like bait is settling into Buzzards Bay finally.Many schools of pogies and big ones at that.The holes in the Elizabeths are are also active with bait and fish.After a lot of miles,managed to stumble on some hardtail action also. Hopefully these will be positive signs for September.

Swimmer · 09-07-2010, 06:13 PM

It is what you make it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vogt · 09-08-2010, 08:57 AM

Ditto on the bait. Peanuts and sandeels just about everywhere I look, with some small pods of adult bunker and hickories for good measure. Water temps in my area are still pretty high. A few more cool nights should get things going. East of me, things are deffinately starting to move...

Back Beach · 09-08-2010, 09:00 AM

I haven't caught a %$%$%$%$ing fish in over a month. I must be fishing in the wrong place.

God forbid I have another fall like last year...

piemma · 09-08-2010, 11:07 AM

I was out early this morning. Marked a lot of fish and tons of bait. Also 4' seas with a solid 20knts SW. Tide was dropping against it so it was standing up pretty good. Got one bluefish that went 14+ on the Boga 33". GORILLA BLUES!!!

bart · 09-08-2010, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

I was out early this morning. Marked a lot of fish and tons of bait. Also 4' seas with a solid 20knts SW. Tide was dropping against it so it was standing up pretty good. Got one bluefish that went 14+ on the Boga 33". GORILLA BLUES!!!

nice. looking forward to tangling with some of those beasts later this fall....

Jausman · 09-16-2010, 10:38 AM

So far - I got the blues down- No large yet- still lots of time