anyone fish quincy bay? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

kenyee · 08-08-2008, 08:52 PM

Wondering if there's any action there?

Raider Ronnie · 08-08-2008, 09:33 PM

Where is Quincy bay ?

kenyee · 08-08-2008, 10:54 PM

Maybe a map would help :-)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=quincy...01452&t=h&z=13

area bounded by long island, george's island, paddock island, hough's neck, and quincy shore

kenyee · 08-09-2008, 03:18 PM

Guess I'll have to answer my question :-)
Went out for a bit today at the worst time (11am low tide, bright sun)...didn't see much until we got to the bay. Still not much, but some guys dragging umbrella rigs caught one or two small stripers near the fixed buoy. It seems to be a known area since there were a few boats trying to get stripers to come off the pilings for the buoy. Didn't see much else (no blues at all...I was hoping they'd show up by now) but only was out for maybe 2-3hrs.
Could have fooled me if there was a gas crisis...seemed to be plenty of boats blasting around, including pretty big 35-40' yachts...

beaver · 08-09-2008, 05:00 PM

I'm from Weymouth originally and I fish it a lot because it's close and easy from the boat. I've found the best time to be between 4:30 and 7am, and that's better than the dark of night there, and safer. Many times you will find fish on the surface. Larger fish in the spring and fall will be on herring and pogies. A lot of pogies around but no big fish with them now. No blues yet. Can always get schoolies to small keepers trolling umbrellas around the islands from quincy-hull and the common big fish techniques-eels, pogies, etc will all work in spots.

kenyee · 08-10-2008, 01:01 PM

Thanks, beaver. FWIW, I didn't see any pogies at all but the water was pretty muddy and you couldn't see very deep.

Raider Ronnie · 08-10-2008, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kenyee

Maybe a map would help :-)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=quincy...01452&t=h&z=13

area bounded by long island, george's island, paddock island, hough's neck, and quincy shore

Thanks for the map, I'll have to check it out sometime

beaver · 08-10-2008, 01:30 PM

been in RI all weekend, but apparently some peanuts have showed in around hull with no fish chasing them...hopefully by the fall the bass will move in heavily

Scuttlebutt · 08-11-2008, 10:18 AM

Out at daybreak both Sat and Sun. I've never seen this area so dead! Yesterday went from Hull Bay to Quincy Bay to the Harbor to The Graves to Minots and saw absolutely nothing. No birds, no blues, no stripers, no tuna, no nothing...Oh.. did snag a dogfish... whoo hoo!Absolutely beautiful morning, real flat...but DEAD! Chased a couple of small pods of pogies off Wollaston but did not snag any.

Saturday made the same trip. Ended back at Hull bay and caught two schoolies on umbrella rigs. Marked lots of small bait in the water but again no decent fish. This season has been STRANGE! Blues should be overrunning this area by now. Have not seen one yet! Again, lots of bait but nothing to push them up to the surface. Anyone else seeing the same thing..or do I just suck at fishing....thinking about going back to golf.

kenyee · 08-11-2008, 10:25 AM

The blues have overrun maine and plum island's mouth this past weekend so they have to be headed in from offshore finally. Hopefully, it'll be a fun Sept in a few weeks...

Scuttlebutt · 08-11-2008, 10:39 AM

I'm thinking that the strange weather pattern over the last month has something to do with it. Rain, Tstorms, winds, etc, have been travelling in an almost direct south to north flow. That puts the steering currents moving off Ptown into the Gulf of Maine....bypassing the Boston Harbor area. Sure you might catch a bass here and there around rocks and such but this area has been way off since June. Usually at this time of year you can run over schools of blues sunning themselves on the surface...nothing so far.

kenyee · 08-11-2008, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Scuttlebutt

Rain, Tstorms, winds, etc, have been travelling in an almost direct south to north flow. That puts the steering currents moving off Ptown into the Gulf of Maine....bypassing the Boston Harbor area.

I've read a lot of theories about why the stripers haven't been inshore much (the theory was the stripers population was shrinking but there's been no mention of why the blues are also so late this year) and that sounds the most reasonable so far. That also explains why the cape cod canal inshore folks have had a really good July when they should be finding nothing there.
That gives us hope for the fall migration at least

Christian · 08-11-2008, 06:34 PM

did really well last week.
the fish are just off this week.
fish have fins, they are moving about. we will have another shot of fish in a few days i bet, or by the full moon comming up.
ive been getting ALOT of bait in quincy.
saturday and sunday were awsome days to collect bait in the bay, just not so good on stripers.