Back from MV

[10x10]

Got back from Marthas Vineyard last night after two weeks+ of pretty good fishing.Plenty of Bass,Blues and Bonito still around as of today.
Before I got there everyone was saying the fishing was terrible.They were right.Took me an hour and half the first night out to catch the first bass.Usually takes about twenty minutes.Heh Heh heh.
Water temps still around 58 and the fish show no signs of moving on southward in any big hurry.Did not run into any large schools of Bass but every night was good for two to six,maybe eight good size fish.Plus all the bluefish you could want.
There was hardly anyone fishing since the derby ended so reports are sketchy or just plain non-existant.Had several good first light bites at Wasque for instance and not a soul in sight.During the week nights I bet there aren't ten guys out fishing on the whole island.Best fish caught while I was there was a 42 lber on an eel.Best fish i got was on plug at 25 lbs or so but I did lose a much larger fish fishing light tackle cause I wasn't payin attention.As did several other guys I know so at least I wasn't alone in that boat.Not much in the way of little schoolie bass around.Most the fish ran about 10 to 20 lbs.Don't think I saw a fish under 24" the whole time.
Guys bottom fishing Squid were kicking butt all along south beach daily although the bluefish tore'em up pretty good.Bring lots of dead Cephalapods.The eel business was brisk to say the least,and the rat blues got some good eating.Plugging/flies got tough the second week cause of that damn moon.Just too bright out!You really had to work hard and think about your tactics and where to go.No leaders and light line was important.Bites were before moon-up, overcast nights and after moonset.Even a snap could make a difference.If the moon was out forget it,waste of time.If you fished too heavy ....no hits ,not even bluefish.Which is tough if you hook a serious fish.(Bye Bye nice fish).
Probably ended up with about a 100 bass and and about the same in bluefish.It's not over yet there.Hell,it was still infested with little bluefish.There'll be some big bass to come through still I think.No schools, forget that,don't think it exists.But they're should be some big solitary fish still lingering around,working they're way down the coast.Meant to go to Nauset for a few days more just to see you guys than fish but I just ran out of time.
So how you guys makin out?anyone been gettin any?
Doesn't sound like anyone is hardly fishing over on the cape from what I read.Man If I lived up there I would be fishing real hard this next couple of weeks.Someone is gonna get a good fish
if they hang in there and don't quit.

[bassmaster]

glad Ya had fun Bubba..........

[JohnR]

Other than a 55 pound bass , what can be better? You caught a bunch of bass, blues, and outboards, you had a few stretches of FANTASTIC weather, you were Happy in Chappy without every Yahoo with a Kmart rod casting across your lines when you hooked up.... That's a very satisfying trip... The only way to improve would be a bass big enough to bring to Janet to stuff (or make a representation of )

Sounds cool - I'm going next year if I have to Dog Paddle from 'Crabbrs to Cutty to Squibby!!!

[Slipknot]

Sounds like a very satisfying 2 weeks 10x10. Glad to hear you caught some fish.
And I believe every word of that report

[Tattoo]

10X,

I havent forgot about your package.....just headed in too many directions at once.....


Wood will turn this week....



Did someone say darter?

[Gadwall8]

Sounds like a great trip, thanks for the report! Did ya take those goofy flies I sent ya?

Gadwall

[Jaiem]

Sounds liek a good trip.

Besides south beach, any other notable spots?

[Mr. Sandman]

Glad to hear the bite is still on north of us...

We got a few more weeks still.

water temp has been taking a nose dive this past week with all this wind and cold air. per the buoy in buz bay.

[JohnR]

Sandman - I just looked up the temps:

Boston Harbor 49 degrees: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.phtml?$station=44013

Buzzards Bay 55 degrees: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.phtml?$station=buzm3

Big Difference as far as the bass go between what the readings are in Bahstin versus Buzzards Bay... I've heard people bounce around a bunch of different numbers, but isn't something like 55 degress the end of the bass's happy zone???

[STEVE IN MASS]

In the Spring in Jersey, the guys usually look for the magic 50 number.

Funny, that's the magic number for temperature and also our magic number that we hunt for!!!!!

[10x10]

Don't know.I'm sure the north shore was putting out some fish but the vast majority were comin around pogue and down the southside.Once they got to there they sorta slowed down and hung around for a bit.It's hard to say.I didn't go up by gayhead or squibnocket at all.Tisbury pond was open but it wasn't fishing any better than anywhere else.Got some fish there a couple of times.There was hardly anyone fishing anywhere's.Most nights I saw no one or maybe one or two guys at the most.You just had to hang in there at a spot
that was producing.If you did you caught the better fish.There was really no pattern to it.Other than fish light terminal tackle,and avoid the bright nights as much as possible. Sometimes the bite was in broad daylight too.Third place bass(29 lbs.) in the Octoberfish was caught by a friend of mine in the middle of the day with bait at the right fork on the top of the tide.(That's not at all unusual anymore by the way.)Plugging and flies was not anywhere's near as effective but you could get some fish if you kept trying and moving around.I had a real good fish on At Wasque one night on an outgoing.But I was fishing a fairly light casting rod with 15 .lb test and no leader with a yellow swimmer.I had put two or three decent bass on the beach and should have checked the line before I kept fishing.
Pretty sure it was a bigger fish cause of the way it stopped the plug.First I thought I was snagged,than I'm thinking wait a minute I'm at Wasque,they're's nothing to snag here.By time I figured that out it was too late, I got popped off right smartly as they used to say.
I did catch some little bass in pretty much any spot I tried but I think you'll do better size wise sticking to the southside.

[Fish_Eye]

10 X 10

Glad you found some fish @ MV. This is the first year in a long time that I didn't set foot on the island...I'll fix that next year.

Water temps are indeed starting to drop but I think the magic number is around 54 degrees to get them really moving. Therefore, hold onto your hats (thanks to too much wind), and perhaps the best is yet to come.

I'll bet Sandman finds some nice fish on the Block.

Mike