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Sept. 1 wasn't exactly the magic bullet many of us were hoping for. Pretty much this report could be the same as I offered last week. Yes, there are fish, both bass and blues, but the numbers of fish that inshore fishermen are finding are very low. Paul Cuzzupe summed things up well in an email the other day: I have been fishing boston harbor for 15 years(mostly flyfishing) and can't recall a late August orearly Sept. fall run staging as strange as this one. I agree with what you say, there is so much bait and so few fish threatiening them that the bait is having its way with the harbor. He's convinced, as I am, that even though we've got tons of bait around, if the fish remain offshore, they'll just start the migration from there. It may work for the Cape guys, but that pattern leaves the Boston fishermen out in the cold. He continues with a report from last week: Last Friday, I did hit some pods of bass off of Nahant feeding on krill , and my buddy & I threw shrimp and very small epoxy sand eels and did very well for about 2 hours. The fish would sound then come back up in a formation, we would get 2-3 cast off each time usually with a fish taking the fly very lightly. I went out last night and found tons of birds at Spec., tons of pogies,and silversides, very few fish. I had some friends onboard and managed 2 blues and 1 bass(same girl caught all 3). The ray off sunshine I'm seeing right now is that the heavy weather from Hannah, even if it's a miss, might just be the key to push the fish inshore, or at the very least trigger them to fall into a more traditional fall pattern. Big waves offshore may help to break up the bait and cause them to move inshore. Not great news for the tuna guys, but a welcome prospect for the inshore crew. Reports are sparse this week. As usually happens at this time of year, many of our regular correspondents aren't on the water as much. The funny thing is, the reports become that much more important to us, so be sure to share the information, even if you need to be less specific about the exact area you're fishing. Tight Lines, Mark Cahill
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Commercial Bluefish season in MA closes on Sept. 6. The Commercial Striped Bass season will close on Sept. 10. As of this writing, the Striped Bass catch is currently at 85.1% of quota (1,107,828 pounds). |
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Boston Harbor
Sokinwet reports: Plenty of fish in the haba..16 fish from 35" to 30 lbs. in the last 3 trips on Fri., Sat. & Mon. fishing with some "inexperienced" fishermen who missed and dropped as many as we caught. All daytime fishing and all on pogies. It's killing me to be here at work instead of out there! |
Plymouth & the South Shore
JimW reports: We bounced around off Plymouth today and got one decent keeper on live pogy. Most of the small keepers just can't get their mouth around one but it's a hoot to watch them try. Nelly reports: Out this afternoon, hoping to find some blues, or something to cast to. 4-6pm off the cliffs, NADA. Took a chunk out of the skeg running too tight to the cliffs, to boot. Damn NW. |
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The North Shore
BigBoatDog reports from Salem: Well, it took a whille to find the fish but I was able hook into several stripers this morning. Left the dock at an early hour for the search and went to place by the islands I had been told would be good to fish bait in the rocks. did try flyfishing but fishing in rocks alone was just to dicey for me nothing large but a lot of hits and one fish to the boat that escaped due to nicked line.Great morning and I learned a lot about fishing this area that was not known before. Not one bluefish either. NHAngler had this bluefish report from Salem: They were all the way up the river 6pm tonight at low tide. Chasing the smallest bait I've ever seen. Nice to see fish boiling the surface though. Remember last year about this time in Salem sound? That was just awesome. Birds were so thick the darkened the sky above. |
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The Merrimack River
No reports this week. If we get the projected rain this weekend, we can expect a swollen river full of debris by Monday. That may very well change everything. |