So...

[SamRiley]

who's been fishin?

On my last saltwater outing in P-Town harbor, one olive Deceiver yielded four Stripers 26"-30" and a delicious 20" Fluke in the last hour of the rising tide.

[PeteV]

Went to Ipswich Yesterday and caught 4. I had to work for them too. I was on the water at about 5 am and was working my way to the Southern tip of Plum Island. Just as Sunrise was occuring I spotted a very nice offshore blitz and was about to make the offshore paddle looked over my shoulder and saw this huge dark wall. I thought it was some Storm clouds!!! and I didn't want to get whacked off shore. tuurned out it was that Smoke from the fires in Quebec...arghhhh!!! but better safe than sorry. So I just stayed and putzed around in Essex Bay & picked up a few decent fish. Saw one guy with an excellent casting stroke picking up a lot of micros.

[kayaker]

Finally got skunked on stripers in Gloucester, but only because my companion and I spent the best part of Saturday's early-morning high tide catching 2- to 3-pound bluefish in the Annisquam River, a chance encounter. Was back in the striper groove yesterday (no sign of the blues). It seems as if nearly every spot in the rivers, creeks, and oceanfront that should hold fish does hold fish(16- to 26-inchers), though they are occasionally fussy. For some reason, perhaps the abundance of small pollock on the rockpiles, a dark fly is working better than a bright one. Yesterday afternoon, kayaking with my wife between Lane's Cove in Gloucester and Andrew's Point in Rockport, I saw pods of fish popping up and here and there, but whether stripers, bluefish, or something else, I do not know.

[ruge13]

Just got back from Wellfleet for 2 days. Spent one day on a friend's boat out on Billingsgate (sp?) Took the fly rod and had fun on some small 3-5lb blues. Dug for some clams, but I didn;t get to try any of those algea patterns. I also got a couple schoolies on a chart/white clouser in the Pmaet River inlet in Truro on sat morning before I left...beutiful spot..tough current on the moving tide with a kayak though