On the launch pad?

[BassDawg]

with piemma i must concur!!

my limited amount of basslawgs (3yrs)
indicate that Sept is the killer AND the beginning
of the staging before the big push S which has been

last week of Sept ~Cape Ann,
1st week of Oct ~DI,
2nd week of Oct ~the AQ and beyond.

but as the wise Flappy One suggests,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
ya just never know til it gets here. question is

will YOU be there??

[macojoe]

Last day of Commercial was today, 30 fish by noon!! Best day of the hole season! There coming!!

[piemma]

Thanks Bassdawg.
Kind of interesting. I remember many, many years in the surf when I would hear "They're still coming. They're on the cape. They're on the North shore. They haven't come by yet."
All this usually after a few nights in SoCo slamming large in mid to late Sept and then the "skunk". The real truth is that the big push is usually earlier than everyone thinks it is.
Years ago we would fish into late Nov. The day after Thanksgiving was usually the closing bell. About 1998 or 99 we found that we got the biggest fish in late Sept thru mid Oct. After that it was a fish here and a fish there. Yeah, every once in awhile you would get a small blitz of large but it was usually a lot of hours with very little return.
I remember one year when my deceased partner, Gil Gullitone, hammered 35 to 40 pound fish at Deep Hole on Oct 11 and 12. A few years later myself, Ollie and Mark (Get Fish) ran into a blitz at "The River" of 40s on Oct 15th and 16th. I can honestly state that I never have hit a huge blizt of large later than mid-Oct in the last 10 years.

Back in the 80s we could depend on the Block to heat up on the New Moon in Nov. We would fish the last and first "crescent". It was always great with a guarentee of a 40. That started to change in the late 90s and we finally figured out that we "missed" the move by a couple of weeks. The last year I really "worked" the Block was with RIRockhound, Spence, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& and Stevie Van Staal in 2003. It was late Oct and we fished it for 3 days, around the clock. There was 1, 15# fish taken in the 3 days. That's it!

The point of this post is for you guys to not wait for the latter part of Oct and Nov. Hit it hard in Sept. and you will not be disappointed.
Now if you are talking Montauk, then November....well you be the judge.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by piemma

The point of this post is for you guys to not wait for the latter part of Oct and Nov. Hit it hard in Sept. and you will not be disappointed.
Now if you are talking Montauk, then November....well you be the judge.

Agreed. The next 30 days or so makes or breaks the fall season in my experience.

[shadow]

paul you are so right about the fishing later in the fall,every year they say the same thing then blame the weather or bait,yet we have seen large bunker on the beach in oct.but no bass insight.my must consistent fishing has always been july-sept. everything else is hit or miss.I fish hard right thru nov. and always have to work hard for a good fish at that time,lot more skunkings.at that time I head south there is a spot that can fish well into nov. A few years ago I saw you and #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& there walking out with a nice fish there was some other guy from the board there with a fish,I was a little late showing up cause I guess you guys did well.I worked hard as hell for one good fish.but that was late oct- nov. can't remember yet that spot will give me a good fish late if I work hard.