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10-08-2016, 10:27 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,441
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Great day at Block yesterday (Friday)
Every fall, my college friends get together for a day of fishing out of Pt Judith, fishing at Block. To me, snapping parachute jigs behind 350 feet of wire, is about as much fun as being sentenced to spend the day on a chain gang. But the action was non-stop as long as the tide was moving. We caught a ton of sea bass and scup (Spence gave me a killer recipe for grilling whole sea bass) and we got a visit from a large leatherneck(?) turtle, that was a first for me. Look at that nasty "afternoon chop", I bet the seas were up to 4 inches by 3PM, and we were in tshirts and shorts for awhile. Amazing day in a beautiful place.
Highly recommend the C-Devil, great captain and mate.
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10-09-2016, 08:17 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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Hard to tell from that picture but it looks like a leatherback to me. I've seen some huge ones out there.
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10-09-2016, 08:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
Hard to tell from that picture but it looks like a leatherback to me. I've seen some huge ones out there.
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I've seen them offshore, never saw one as close as sw ledge
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10-09-2016, 08:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,371
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Nice I 2nd that wire jigging 1 fish and your smoked Glad you had a great day
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10-09-2016, 09:17 AM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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Yup leatherback seen them a bunch of times this time of year when I use to dive off of the SW corner.
Pretty big and docile creatures.
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10-09-2016, 09:26 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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I was on the Block most of last week along with a few guys from this site. We have very tough fishing until the wind died on Wednesday night. Thursday was good but you had to work for the fish. This was in the surf not boat.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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10-09-2016, 09:42 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5/0
Yup leatherback seen them a bunch of times this time of year when I use to dive off of the SW corner.
Pretty big and docile creatures.
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Did you charter a boat to dive out there? I am certified, never been diving out there, would love to see all the fish. In a couple of years, the wind towers might be a good dive spot. |
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10-09-2016, 05:31 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Spent the day codfishing on Coxes out on the south and sw edges.
Did poorly as it seemed did everyone else around us. Lots of sea bass but they are closed in MA (is it still open in RI????).
By the way, does anyone have numbers for the wrecks out there? I'd like to try again but the wreck symbols on the GPS are not accurate from what I can tell.
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10-10-2016, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Spent the day codfishing on Coxes out on the south and sw edges.
Did poorly as it seemed did everyone else around us. Lots of sea bass but they are closed in MA (is it still open in RI????).
By the way, does anyone have numbers for the wrecks out there? I'd like to try again but the wreck symbols on the GPS are not accurate from what I can tell.
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Don't have the numbers handy (they are on the boat) but most of the wrecks are on the north edge. Many of them have collapsed. |
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10-10-2016, 01:53 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
Don't have the numbers handy (they are on the boat) but most of the wrecks are on the north edge. Many of them have collapsed.
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If any point you can write them down for me I'd appreciate it greatly.
If you prefer not, either for fishing or other reasons, I understand.
That aside, I am curious as to your thoughts why codfishing was so slow last friday. There seemed to be plenty of bait and seabass, as well as plenty of boats which I take as a sign fishing had been decent (although I suppose it might just be RI guys targeting seabass instead........but that seems like a long way to run for that).
Are the cod on the move off the ledge into closer/shallower waters (i.e., brown's, swledge, east grounds, sw shoal) as the water cools? I remember catching them by the dozen while trolling for bass at cuttyhunk years ago and used to jig for them later in October on SW shoal.
Does competition now with seabass drive them off into deeper water?
Are the cod there and it is just that the seabass get to the jigs/bait first?
Or is it just cod being cod and simply not biting on the day in question.
Fishing for seabass the last several years has reawakened my zest for vertical jigging. Although I have the wrong boat for it I had hoped to pick away at codfish this fall when weather permits. |
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10-11-2016, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Browns has some
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10-12-2016, 01:26 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Thanks, will try it next week.
Regretting not going today. The bass fishing was slow and albies only a bit better.
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