Plum Island (Mass) fishing report w/o 7/22

[Rockfish9]

Fishing ( bass and winter flounder) around plum island remains steady, Pogies are the dominant bait fish, mackerel are present but hard to come by( very fussy), chum heavy at first light, light line ( 6lb test) and single baits ( herring strips or sand eels) will take them., not every pogie school has bass under it, either find a school that does or get your bait and fish structure ( my preferred method), be sure to keep a dead one rigged for the "lookie lous" that are slap happy, toss 'em a dead one and hold on, Beach fishing is good all tides as long as water is moving, river is producing on high water with tube and worm or pogies by day, eels and soft plastics by night.. the water is in the low 80's at the bottom of the tide, I've only seen schoolies and sturgeon at this time of tide last week... flounder ( winter variety, no fluke here) are biting well in water along the 30' drop off, along the reservation, I've been doing well with sea clams on a slow drift,dragging a bag of crushed mussels..I understand the Pollack and haddock bite is good offshore. along the drop offs in 180 to 200' of water., but this is second hand information, I have not been part of this myself..I don't have any tuna info to pass along...

for the crustacean lovers, the bug bite has been good when no one raids my gear, a lot of shorts and quite a few eggers, but I'm bringing home 3-5 keepers per 10 traps every 2 days..

have a good weekend everyone.. enjoy what we have, it'll be cold and snowing all too soon.