Chatham Blitz??

[mfreliech]

I was visiting my parents on the Cape for New Years. I brought the kids to Chatham Light for the annual town photo on New Year's Eve. Couldn't help surveying the waters for action.

The birds were going nuts!!! There were comerants and ducks diving along the rip inside the inlet. I took out the binoculars and watched gulls diving less than a hundred feet off the tip of North Beach for at least half an hour. It looked like bluefish in June.

Any ideas of what fish would be doing this in winter? Do cod storm the beaches?

Wish I had had my rod along.

... Hats off to the two commercial cod fisherman who pulled another out of the water last weekend in Noant. I guess a wave had knocked him overboard and he was in 40 deg. water for 45 minutes.

MikeF.

[Ray]

It could be stripers!!!

Reports have it that there was a big striper blitz of 20+ inch fish last week on Easton's Beach in Newport. Several fish were caught and released on surface plugs.

Maybe our warm fall kept fish around longer that expected.

[notime]

It could also be Mackeral. I heard reports of them in RI about a week ago.

[bdowning]

The betting here is macks.

-bd


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[Quicksilver]

................the long awaited start of the Fall run?!!

[Biteme]

I was also there yesterday, around 12:30. Did you notice the guy in the surburban at the tip of Nauset fishing?

[Basenji123]

Macks...I would bet the farm on it.

[mfreliech]

Biteme,

I saw the suburban but I didn't see them fishing. Do you still need an oversand pass off-season?

Anyone know any mackeral patterns?

MikeF

[stoochie]

it could have been dead dog or something like that in the water as well.

[mfreliech]

stoochie,

Someone scattered that dead dog over a square mile of water.

MikeF

[bpmurray]

<P>Patterns for mackeral? Use pieces of tinsel, or even a completely bare silver hook. These are reall mindless hunters - if it flashes, they'll try to eat it. Or even if it doesn't - they don't care.</P>
<P>B=</P>

[David Churbuck]

<P>Last week I saw about three dozen gulls working over the water just to the south of the new bridge between Cotuit and Mashpee across the Santuit River at the head of Shoestring Bay. There were definite surface splashes. No idea what it was but it was pretty surprising to see.</P>
<P>dcc</P>

[stoochie]

It’s a shame what they did to that dog. The brave little fella probably kept up for a mile or so…