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05-15-2011, 09:29 AM
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xxx
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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Probably start next weekend. Got my first brown trout this am. Couple of prespawn largemouth too.
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05-15-2011, 09:33 AM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,552
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Water up here is real cloudy and churned up. There have been some bass and mackeral chasing sea herring in the harbor during the evenings though. They have occasionally been reachable from shore near low.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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05-15-2011, 09:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
Posts: 2,678
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Schoolies in the Annisquam some mackerel but scarce. Big fish over 38 inches should be here by the 21st, hoping it holds true. 
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05-15-2011, 10:32 AM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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Had an evening earlier in the week with acres of bass feeding on silversides (very small ones) right along the shore in a popular local spot. Fish were mixed size and super-focused on the feed and I only fooled one around 27" on a small metal-lip swimmer. The very next evening the feed was back but this time were being harrassed by a huge school of sea herring. Had never seen such large herring right on shore. Has some some fun jigging them up. JackK even fooled one with the fly-rod. Did foul-hook a schoolie with the diamond jig- a plump fish indeed. Each night since then has featured lotsa bird activity but mostly out-of-casting-range. All the action has been just before dark this week. Tried this morning but it was casting practice.
As mentioned, it should only get better by the day going forward. 
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"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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05-15-2011, 10:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spinncognito
Had an evening earlier in the week with acres of bass feeding on silversides (very small ones) right along the shore in a popular local spot. Fish were mixed size and super-focused on the feed and I only fooled one around 27" on a small metal-lip swimmer. The very next evening the feed was back but this time were being harrassed by a huge school of sea herring. Had never seen such large herring right on shore. Has some some fun jigging them up. JackK even fooled one with the fly-rod. Did foul-hook a schoolie with the diamond jig- a plump fish indeed. Each night since then has featured lotsa bird activity but mostly out-of-casting-range. All the action has been just before dark this week. Tried this morning but it was casting practice.
As mentioned, it should only get better by the day going forward. 
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Next time you see them on silversides try one of Joes small Po-Jees with an undressed hook.Works everytime!
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05-15-2011, 10:51 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,888
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I was all over Narr Bay this morning. Only marked a few fish in Warwick Cove and between Prudence and Patience Island. No runs, no hits and no one got on.
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No boat, back in the suds. 
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05-15-2011, 03:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
I was all over Narr Bay this morning. Only marked a few fish in Warwick Cove and between Prudence and Patience Island. No runs, no hits and no one got on.
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Have you ever witnessed anything like this in mid May before?
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05-15-2011, 11:14 AM
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Is it May yet?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gloucester Ma
Posts: 1,238
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Quote:
Originally Posted by basswipe
Next time you see them on silversides try one of Joes small Po-Jees with an undressed hook.Works everytime!
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I thought about posing/posting the obligatory question about how-to fool a feed-focused bass. The answers/advice are many from teasers to swim shads to tins to out-of-the-box thinking like huge wooden plugs. We threw the bag at them but they wanted almost none of it. It was acually difficult to even fish the edges/outskirts of the school as there were so many bass and so much feed. Funny thing about this occurance was that it kept going well after dark with lotsa slashing/surfacing bass but it was not an all-out washing-machine-like frenzy. It was frustrating for sure- Kevin even compared it to fishing a worm hatch (something I have never done).
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"Twitch....Twitch....Twitch....WHAM!"
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05-15-2011, 03:47 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,336
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Today was my first outing and hooked onto fish nuttin big but it was nice to get out and wet a line,next weekend I'll be out again 
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Live bait sharp hooks and timing is all you need
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