5-10: Canal & Buzzards Bay rpt

[bdowning]

It's May 11 and the Canal has yet to really happen. TR, Mike H, and I hit it yesterday AM on the east tide. Not one hit on herring and didn't see anything caught either.

Later, TR and I tried one of the Buzzards Bay rivers with herring, I had one hit and that was it. A couple of guys next to us got one right at 28" but that's all the action we saw.

After TR left, I tried the Canal again on the west tide, west end with somewhat more hopeful signs. Caught one just-legal striper and had another couple of runs and drops. My Canal assessment is the stripers are knocking on the door but won't see consistent catching until next weekend. A late start for sure.

Finished up in one of the rivers on the Cape side of Buzzards Bay and caught plenty of smalls to 23" on lures on the outgoing. If you just want to catch some fish, you could do worse than try the BB rivers. I haven't been disappointed yet in the past 10 days there.

-bd

[winner]

hi, a buddy and I are here at mass maritime and are getting anxious to catch some stripers. We were wondering if anyone could tell us of any shore accessable spots in the upper Buzzards bay region where we could score a few this afternoon.
thanks

[bdowning]

I sent you a PM, winner.

-bd

[winner]

thank you very much, Hopefully they will let us out of this place so we can head down there this afternoor

[AdamFishes]

bdowning can u send me some info also?

[hablonski]

I was at the herring run last yesterday from 4:00-7:00...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENING...many, but not an outrageous amount of herring in the run...there were about 10-15 guys there throwing jigs, rubber and a bunch were were live-lining...but there was nothing going on at all...i read the reports from last year and the week of may 8 to may 15th was the time when the stripers exploded at that run...what's up this year? any ideas when it will get going would be appreciated...are the herring late? are the numbers of herring down? where are the bass?

[Fishingman]

1)The herring run is becomming depleted, fewer fish every year.
2)The water is still to cold. Coldest winter in 75 years.
3)Were you there at "slack tide"?
4) Were the herring there "blueback" or "alewife"? (blueback herring show up last and signal the end of the herring run).

[hablonski]

thanks for responding...i was there at slack tide...the wind was out of the southwest and the tide turned west @4:30...hard to tell if the herring were blueback or alewife...with respect to diminishing amounts of herring every year, what are the causes and what can be done about it? i am somewhat politically active...can you recommend an organization or government agency i can contact about conservation?...i also read that menhaden are under stress as well...i would like to do something about these issues, but i need more information before i can discuss it intelligently...

[sandy]

check out herring and menhaden under "Managed Species". You may be able to find some info there.

http://www.asmfc.org/

[TonyO]

1 32in fish on a sluggo yesterday. Warmer water to the west

[Bassbuster]

I have yet to make it down myself, but my brother got his first keeper a fat 34" on 5/7. It was his third trip before hitting paydirt.

On a positive note report of the first 50 this yr off the block on bunker. It won't be long w/the push in temps the last week 1/2.

[Bassbuster]

I have yet to make it down myself, but my brother got his first keeper a fat 34" on 5/7. It was his third trip before hitting paydirt.

On a positive note report of the first 50 this yr off the block on bunker. It won't be long w/the push in temps the last week 1/2.