Capt. John Mendelson at Boston FishStix Charters reports:
Fantastic late summer morning on the water in Boston today with Bill and Chris! It felt more like fall with a nice breeze out of the north and clear skies. The fish fed like crazy for the four hours we were out there and showed no signs of slowing down when we had to head for the barn. Big fish today was 38" and 20lbs, most were in the 22-26" range, all taken on the fly (except for one small bass and one bluefish, when Bill got lazy at the tail end of the trip and grabbed the sluggo rod...)
There were at least a few in CCB on Saturday... My sports hooked 6
(one on the fly) between 9am-1pm. Weather got nasty early and we bailed to Plymouth, leaving fish feeding hard. Richard was out today and only found a few pods. Seems the wind busted up the bait and the fish stayed down.
Weather looks good the next few days at least. Bass fishing the next couple days then back to tuna Thurs-Sun. This is prime time fellas. They are out there. Go get em!
Then he reports from Thursday...
Fished with Bob, his son Dan, and friend Charlie today. We pushed back late as the guys were coming down from Keene, NH and wanted to avoid the rush hour traffic. The bite never really got going today but we kept working and were rewarded with three hookups, and one fish in the boat. All on poppers--two on the black/silver yozuri and one on the Ocean Lures halfbeak. We ended up breaking off one nice fish after an hour long battle and pulled the hook on another boatside. We finally put a fish in the boat at 7:30pm in the dark that hit the popper right before sunset. Beautiful day out there and great to fish with three good guys.
Slappy reports from the Harbor:
They are pretty much everywhere, inside, outside and even way up inside. Sounds like they are up and down the coast too. If you can't catch a fish right now, you need to consider another hobbie, like crafting.
I got out at o'dark because that was as early as I could wake up. I only had about a 45 minute window on one spot for larges. Fortunately it produced in the first fifteen minutes.
Smalls were everywhere and I had a hard time finding bigger fish. Picked off a few 29" fish, but mostly the fish were 24" to 27". I stuck a very large fish in very shallow water at sunrise, but it went through some rocks and things turned out pretty ugly.
Fish were everywhere in the dark, breaking in some spots, not breaking in others, but biting everywhere. At sunrise I chased birds outside and found it hard to keep up in the yak. I ended up stopping and casting where the birds were and found quite a few fish.