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08-31-2009, 10:51 AM
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Easy to say when your casting into 25'+ feet of water. In CT, it'll be a bluefish bonanza unless there's a heavy cloud cover
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08-31-2009, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Actually I was out last night as the 2/3rds full moon broke out and fishing was better than last week in the pitch black with 110% of the bioluminescence in the water.
The other thing is that bait has finally shown alongshore. This next couple weeks the feed bag will go on. The school fish have started to chow down but as always I am not so sure if it is the beginning of the fall feeding or just opportunistic feeding because some bait happened along.
Friday night/Saturday in the wee hours as the waves started to rise and the wind and rain started to get stronger we had very good luck on sinking needles and Superstrike plastic needles cast into the white water. It really seemd like fall fishing then. Fish were not huge but lots of small legals which were very fat and a couple larger.
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Why even try......... 
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09-02-2009, 08:37 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Krispy
Easy to say when your casting into 25'+ feet of water. In CT, it'll be a bluefish bonanza unless there's a heavy cloud cover
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I havent taken a bass in 25' of water in years....last curl of the wave.. my biggest fish of the year each season ( and my life) are/were taken under a bright full moon...
the dark of the new requires total different tactics, the light of the full moon allows for faster retrievs and larger baits.... darkenss reqires more stealth and slower retrieves and or smaller baits...
the ultimate bonus of the moon is the eraser of fire....bring on the full...
Just my observations and opinion... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-02-2009, 08:46 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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I would say as an add on to the above you can throw all this stuff out the window as we get later in the season. As the fall binge sets in its just a matter of being out there and conditions become secondary.
I'm still taking a few nights off and blaming it on the moon, though...  |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-02-2009, 09:22 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
I would say as an add on to the above you can throw all this stuff out the window as we get later in the season. As the fall binge sets in its just a matter of being out there and conditions become secondary.
I'm still taking a few nights off and blaming it on the moon, though... |
who you kidding? you'll be out.....fish nazi  |
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09-02-2009, 09:40 AM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Best beach nite of my life
full moon, clear, flat calm
go figure
All nite fish 20 to 50 lbs.
white needles with small teasers
Bastard blues showed around 4am... game over.
Last edited by MAKAI; 09-02-2009 at 04:16 PM..
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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09-03-2009, 10:33 AM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
Best beach nite of my life
full moon, clear, flat calm
go figure
All nite fish 20 to 50 lbs.
white needles with small teasers
Bastard blues showed around 4am... game over.
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hey MAKAI,,,,,,,,,,,,,
you fishing for Team S-B??
if you are, a fiddy would help out nicely!!!
congrats on yer Full Moon FEVER  |
"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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09-03-2009, 12:01 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
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That was a few years ago.
I am a catch and release guy for a while now, If one is hopelessly hooked it's on the grill, but that's only a few each year.
My main point was in reference to fishing the full moon.
You never know, though I prefer a nite as dark as my ex wife's soul.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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09-03-2009, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BassDawg
hey MAKAI,,,,,,,,,,,,,
you fishing for Team S-B??
if you are, a fiddy would help out nicely!!!
congrats on yer Full Moon FEVER |
I thought you were Team Striper all the way?
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09-03-2009, 02:42 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Originally Posted by JohnR
One thing is for certain. No fish will be caught driving a desk  |
Quote:
Originally Posted by bart
who you kidding? you'll be out.....fish nazi |
I'm heading out tonight, desk and all... 
Theres just a nagging pull that never ceases this time of year, I can't explain it. Next six weeks is why I exist from a fishing standpoint. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-03-2009, 03:48 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
Theres just a nagging pull that never ceases this time of year, I can't explain it. Next six weeks is why I exist from a fishing standpoint.
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Its because this time of year anything can be possible. Sure, you probably will get larger in June but now you can have blizes of fish going nuts on the beach front, bait getting crashed by fish below and birds above. Schools of fish running the lane hard and fast. Trip over other fun fish like Albies and Bones. Beautiful mornings where the bite has run from the dark until hours into the day.
There is also a heightened sense of the end rushing up on you. The season is not bright and long, it is now shorter with an end measured in weeks, scattered with storms that may shut you down.
Besides, what better name is there for it than the Fall Run? |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
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Apocalypse is Coming:
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09-04-2009, 03:03 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Its because this time of year anything can be possible. Sure, you probably will get larger in June but now you can have blizes of fish going nuts on the beach front, bait getting crashed by fish below and birds above. Schools of fish running the lane hard and fast. Trip over other fun fish like Albies and Bones. Beautiful mornings where the bite has run from the dark until hours into the day.
There is also a heightened sense of the end rushing up on you. The season is not bright and long, it is now shorter with an end measured in weeks, scattered with storms that may shut you down.
Besides, what better name is there for it than the Fall Run?
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Cap, that's beautiful... 
It's also making old Uncle Crafty horny for fish...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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09-06-2009, 08:13 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: taunton ma.
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1 Rocks
2 fullmoon
3 bucket of eel
4 fish on!
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09-06-2009, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
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best set of tides of the year for me, especially early in the week
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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09-07-2009, 10:44 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clogston29
best set of tides of the year for me, especially early in the week
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AMEN to that my NShorian, bruthah!!!
i wait ALL year for these next three to five weeks, but
more specifically this and the next moon's windows of opportunity!!!
shore would like to sea The Cup extended to Oct 21st.
i'll be in ghost mode til Sun night~~~this YEAR could be THE Year!
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"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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09-02-2009, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
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Pretty significant change in the weather lately. I know it does not effect water temps quickly, and I have no data to back up my claim, but it seems when the wind swings back into the southwest after the first significant cool-down of the year, things really turn on.
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09-02-2009, 11:26 AM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
Posts: 773
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I love when guys stay home because of the moon, almost always guarantees me the best rocks to fish from anyplace I go. When the moon is big and bright, I like to get down low, work the bottom, black bucktail with red porkrind has caught me some nicer fish.
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Originally Posted by Mike P
August 29--a date that lives in striper infamy.  |
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09-02-2009, 04:57 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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I am fishing reguardless....... I cant wait for the "right time".....I go WHEN I have time!
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Simplify.......
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09-02-2009, 06:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Franklin Ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jenn
I am fishing reguardless....... I cant wait for the "right time".....I go WHEN I have time!
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You and me both, Jenn. Heading out right now..  |
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09-04-2009, 02:46 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
Pretty significant change in the weather lately. I know it does not effect water temps quickly, and I have no data to back up my claim, but it seems when the wind swings back into the southwest after the first significant cool-down of the year, things really turn on.
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