Rhody Fall Run

[rwilhelm]

This past Sunday I hit 3 spots for one schoolie. I am not throwing in the towel yet I will probably fish till Turkey Day.

[keeperreaper]

the fish are going to be found where the bait is. Right now the bait is offshore and there is a lot of it at that. This fall has been slower than past seasons but the season overall had a great quantity of good fish that were caught. The fish will be in SoCo until the water gets too cold 50 the low end.

[ThrowingTimber]

27 ' Hydrasport

[piemma]

Look, we are not saying that there are not fish around. Of Course there are fish around. Nebe knows where to find 15 lb fish in January. I am saying the following.

1. The 14 or 15 days of NE wind and rain pushed the main migration off shore.
2. The bait was also pushed off shore.

3. The fish that are being caught now, for the most part, are not migratory fish but fish that are resident.

4. IMO, there will not be a big push of BIG fish this year. It already happended about 3 weeks ago when some of the guys were at Cutty and got into a lot of mid to high 30# fish.

5. There will be pulses of small fish with an occasional good fish among them.

6. These fish will continue until the water temp gets to 49 degrees at which point you will be catching holdovers.

No rocket science just 30 odd years of Fall runs. Seen it before and I will see it again.

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by piemma

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The bait was also pushed off shore.

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This jives real well with what I've seen before, during, and after the big Nor'easter. I also agree, that this time of year, the migrating bass are keyed in on bait. No bait=No fish sticking around.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by piemma

Look, we are not saying that there are not fish around. Of Course there are fish around. Nebe knows where to find 15 lb fish in January. I am saying the following.

1. The 14 or 15 days of NE wind and rain pushed the main migration off shore.
2. The bait was also pushed off shore.

3. The fish that are being caught now, for the most part, are not migratory fish but fish that are resident.

4. IMO, there will not be a big push of BIG fish this year. It already happended about 3 weeks ago when some of the guys were at Cutty and got into a lot of mid to high 30# fish.

5. There will be pulses of small fish with an occasional good fish among them.

6. These fish will continue until the water temp gets to 49 degrees at which point you will be catching holdovers.

No rocket science just 30 odd years of Fall runs. Seen it before and I will see it again.

Yup, UHHU, Keep thinking that....

[ThrowingTimber]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

[eelman]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Yup, UHHU, Keep thinking that....

Dave and I dont mean to be critical, you guys bang a few fish over on the east bay and think that it is the end of the world, huge migration, yippie...that is nothing compared to what used to happen. The main push of fish has left, one pocket of fish does not a fall migration make, most likely the fish you are catching are also fish that summered offshore and are poking around looking for food, heck there is loads of fish in barrington right now!! Its no secret, there is more of a holdover population than people think, when they think they hit the migrating bass what they really hit are fish that are winter overs heading up the westport, seekonk, barrington, providence etc... I think most here should have witnessed a real fall that last happend in the early 90s.. You cant judge a migration with tunnel vision, just because there are a few on the east side .

The run is all but over, its chasing dreams and yesterdays news, paul is right the reality is that even if there are fish it wont last but maybe another week tops.

Beside many stories everyone hears about these huge fish runs are in fact blown way out of proportion and embelished to the tenth degree, the reality is most of the fish are schoolies with an occasional decent fish in the mix.

Can it happen? sure someone will be at a breachway and luck into a few fish and say here they are? that will last for the moment only. To do that you need to spend eveywaking moment at the spot and hope to luck into a few.

It used be that the fall fishing was very consitant, you would have fish and count on fish being there nightly....not anymore....I think most of this post however is stirring the pot and being a sharpie dave you know its nearing a fast end

[eelman]

Ask johnR What consitancy is, he will tell you about at least two solid weeks of very large fish in a certain spot from the last week of october thru the full first week of november and that was as recent as 1997-98! There was also a beach spot that had consitant cows all of october into mid november ( CB) John to refresh your memory, You could count on a large there every single night for years..........Those were some good fall runs, in fact 98 was the last of that from what I have heard......

Then Charlestown, the breach had cows after that...It was awesome.....

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

its chasing dreams

Yup, and YOU, like ME will continue chasing dreams till our hands fall off.
I told you, it's in our blood unfortunately, so lets keep doing what we do and have fun doing it and maybe we'll get lucky...

[piemma]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Yup, UHHU, Keep thinking that....

i don't need to keep thinking anything. I know what I know and as I said you may run into a big fish or 2 but if you think there is going to be a huge run of 30s and 40s, you are delusional.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by piemma

you are delusional.

Hey, that's what my wife says!
How'd you know that?

[Squibby17]

I'm only 24 so I barely had my drivers licence when the last "big run happened"

In my experience this "fall run" you guys speak of I have yet to see. THe past five years I have caught more fish in May and June than September and October. Although I generally get larger fish in the Fall.

The few times I did get offshore this year I saw a tremendous amount of bait. The Tuna we caught had hundreds upon hundreds of Sand Eels in their stomach. And the best Blue Fishing I have seen in years was 35 miles off shore, with every blue approaching 15 lbs (its too bad we weren't targeting them)

I guess I'm confused?