Spring Run about Done

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

The Merrimack has been on fire since memorial day... pictures post upside down, and no one seems interested anyway if it's not the cape or Rhode island..

there are tons of small bass being targeted by party boats, six pack charteres and "chunkers" sadly, a fair amount of them end up floating in the tide rips... "slot" fish are hard to come bye, but 40 to 48" fish abound, and some are quite "porky" and approach 50 lbs.. average night is 8 fish 40" or better for a 3 or 4 hour effort.. rising tide the best until about an hour from the top.. ... eels and boat fish dont count but it is what works.

My buddy and ice fishing partner came down from the mountains of New Hampshire last Saturday night to catch his 1st ever striped bass...

I'm hoping that all this rain doesn't ruin it and send the fish north..

Mackerel have been easy to come bye at first light, pogies are being harrased by schools of small bass in the river and along the beach front and on occasion tuna crash the party.. the ocean front has been slow for large, this may change from the rain, water finally warmed up to 60 with the easterlies.

Lobster fishing is the worse I have ever seen it.. I haven't got a sdingle bug, I had over 100 at this time last season, due to the storms, my pots are home stacked next to the garage, well, at least 9 of them, the first storm ( before Elsa) moved them 2 miles, I was lucky to find any of them.

Same here with the bugs joe, pots are home. :-(….. I wish I could say that for your bass….

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by Guppy

Same here with the bugs joe, pots are home. :-(….. I wish I could say that for your bass….

WOW.. I was blaming the water temp up here, it's been 52 for a month now, just warmed up with the constant easterlies, of coarse that made the inlet treacherous for a small boat...

I figured you guy's were slamming them... now I'm wondering if there was some kind of a die off or something...

[tlapinski]

The public chatter is bound to change with the fishery. When everyone was catching it was safe to discuss a bite online and have little fear that someone would travel to hunt you down. Nowadays you make even a passing mention online and you have guys breathing down your neck.

I will say that this season has been better for me than the past 2-3 when talking big fish (honest 30-plus-pounders) but skunkings remain quite common as I'm not willing to chase schoolies to get bit. Last check of my log had nearly as many fish over 30# as under, and I'm fine with that for how I fish.