Hey....Is Anybody Fishing? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BigFish · 07-27-2003, 07:54 AM

Just curious if anybody is out fishing? I know we are in the middle of the so-called summer doldrums, but is anyone catching anything? I went fishing Thursday night with my buddy Joe down the P-Town area, Wellfleet, and it was so munged up it was miserable. Wound up at South Cape Beach at sunrise and my Buddy banged four little blues. We finished up in Wareham and de-skunked with about 6-8 schoolies each then went home to nappie.

July is tough.

Gotta keep plugging away though, you never know when that big fish will hang on your line. Anyone else fishing?

Buzz-erd · 07-27-2003, 09:34 AM

Fished for a few hours lastnite(Sat.) got a small blue and a schoolie.This is down on Aquidneck Isle.Tho I did get 43" last week at the same spot.

MAC · 07-27-2003, 09:40 AM

picked up 3 last night; 32",37" (took this one home),43" and real fat(took 15 minutes to revive her) she gave me a slap and swam away beautifully. All fish within 1 hr of the change then nothing.

Christian · 07-27-2003, 10:06 AM

ive been doing ok with bombers every where. t-storms today

macojoe · 07-27-2003, 12:57 PM

To much wind for the boat as of late

but hope to go out Mon. I want to go to the race this coming thur or fri and try that surf rod that has been hanging in the basement for the last 4 years. Will have to see how the weather is?? I got my sticker and have not been up there since. But now that I am home from camping I will have more of a chance to get over there. I hope.

JohnR · 07-27-2003, 05:35 PM

Got a deer last night bu no fish

BigFish · 07-27-2003, 07:05 PM

So JohnR...tell us about this deer????

nor-easter · 07-27-2003, 07:30 PM

Hope no one else was hurt. What did you get it with? Hope you didn't mess up your ride!

KLMulder · 07-27-2003, 10:27 PM

hope you are ok. Did you keep it/ Im dieing for a deer planing on going back to kansas for 10 days in Dec. I have a lifetime lic so I can get 5 tags and I have almost 8000 ar to hunt on. cant wait

JohnR · 07-27-2003, 11:13 PM

Well, it was a little deer. After I slowed down and it crossed the road with momma it shot right back headfirst into my wheel. No damage to the truck, cop had to put the deer out of its misery...

Silverado 1500 1 , Deer 0

(really was not funny)

Fishguts · 07-28-2003, 05:47 AM

Hit the Plumb island area on thursday night. Got a bunch of schoolies with a couple of keepers in the mix. We also picked up a few dog fish.. all in all a real Productive night.

Fishpart · 07-28-2003, 07:02 AM

Hey Y'all I gots this here gun......Is that a deer you BANG just hit with your truck?? I don't think it will make it.

Sat night one hit no fishies

Too bad about the deer John.

Sun Evening walk to pond 1 hour 8 lmb

schoolie monster · 07-28-2003, 01:33 PM

I had a pretty fun morning on Saturday fishing the harbor islands. I was able to get some better herring this week and pretty quickly too. I've been trying a strategy of casting plastic to the rocks while livelining a herring as close to the structure as possible. Seemed like a great idea, but in practice, the bait doesn't stay in there very long.

I spent some more time letting the bait work in good structure and putting down my lure. I ended up with 5 fish, from 32-34"... 2 on plastic, 3 on herring. I had a couple other runs on the bait and had a few schoolies follow my lure... which has been happening alot over the past couple weeks. Also had a few fish chase my herring up top, but not take it. So, there were quite a few fish around and I had action of some sort for a couple hours.

I saw the biggest fish I've ever seen period. I thought it was a shark at first, but it was a huge bass. Judging from the fish I caught and the way they looked in the water, it had to be close to 50"... I threw a cast in front of it, but it was pretty close to the boat and probably was spooked.

One of these weekends, I'm gonna get a really good one... but had a really fun morning.

Big Vern · 07-28-2003, 02:39 PM

I managed to wet the line a little this weekend.....

Friday night, I was into trophy mung on just about every cast on the outer beaches. It was sweet.

Saturday morning, went out in the boat. It was a little too snotty to do the run we intended, so we decided to go for some fluke instead. Thirty seconds into the first drift, I hook into something big, and my drag starts singing. A couple minutes later, I've got the biggest damn fluke any of us had ever seen to the surface. I could not believe it was even a fluke. Of course, as my buddy goes to net it, it thrashes, and back down it goes without my hook in its mouth.

We ended up getting close to our limit with the biggest (landed) going about five pounds on the Boga, but the one I dropped was AT LEAST double the size as that one. We estimated the fluke to be 12+, and let me say that I am now on a mission. Stripers are #2 in my book for the moment.

Buzz-erd · 07-28-2003, 03:18 PM

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Originally posted by KLMulder
I have a lifetime lic so I can get 5 tags and I have almost 8000 ar to hunt on. cant wait

Damn!Most of us dream about a situation like that!

KLMulder · 07-28-2003, 04:41 PM

Got a nice 12pt last year with the bow on the 2860 that I lived on. It was great out there but there was 1 prob............ No stripers

Buzz-erd · 07-28-2003, 09:38 PM

I'm fishin' I just ain't catch'en.Tough getting skunked on a Monday nite,but at least it was a nice stress relieving nite.
I'll be doing it again tomorrow nite.

BasicPatrick · 07-28-2003, 10:06 PM

tossed somwe eelsin my favorite (not John R's) Hull holes and besides one little run ...nada...#^&#^&#^&#^& load of bait on the Bay side but nothing ouit front....going hard this week ...I gotta feelin...

come on john r....it's time dude....I got couch

Notaro · 07-28-2003, 10:54 PM

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Originally posted by Don Corleone
I could not believe it was even a fluke. Of course, as my buddy goes to net it, it thrashes, and back down it goes without my hook in its mouth. We ended up getting close to our limit with the biggest (landed) going about five pounds on the Boga, but the one I dropped was AT LEAST double the size as that one. We estimated the fluke to be 12+, and let me say that I am now on a mission. Stripers are #2 in my book for the moment.

outer beach as in the race point? anyway, the fish u caught was a flattie, right? man, u are so lucky. i wish that i had fluke over five lbs and putting seven 10 lbs class keeper flukes on the chained stringer and wear it on my wraist and danced like a hula hoop babe.

schoolie monster · 07-29-2003, 08:28 AM

did I see that move in riverdance? my bad, I think it was a stringer of scup...

Big Vern · 07-29-2003, 08:56 AM

Outer beach = Nauset to Race Point

"i wish that i had fluke over five lbs and putting seven 10 lbs class keeper flukes on the chained stringer and wear it on my wraist and danced like a hula hoop babe"

Whoa