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MFF US Northeast => Massachusetts => Topic started by: Knot there yet on May 11, 2018, 12:31 PM
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I don’t want your spot but how about zip code. Post the zip code you catch first striper of the year at.
01904 virgin still 2018
My buddy got one last week same zip.( no lice may have been hold over)
Share your Shad too.
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01930... no fish yet.
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Schoolies and small keepers in west end of canal. No real secret
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Canal secrets are hard to come by. Mostly at night. Im holding off until the cows come home.
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I got two (schoolies)today in 01904.
It’s ON
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I got two (schoolies)today in 01904.
It’s ON
Nice! Some of those hold over spots should be warming up.
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FYI
Boston north channel loaded with macks yesterday. Stocked up freezer.
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They are around the south side of the cape.
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Plum island.. Merrimack river... they should show any day... then head straight to the Lawrence dam... hold over rats only at this time..it's still early.. time to load up on haddock before I worry about bass.
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Getting the canal gear ready for memorial day. Usually hit or miss that weekend for bigger bass.
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Getting the canal gear ready for memorial day. Usually hit or miss that weekend for bigger bass.
.. Ha.. good luck Jon...you and every other jabroney looking to repeat last seasons carnage...last time I fished the canal was 1976.... I'll settle for less fish and peace of mind...
in '76 I followed the striper migration south.. starting at Popham beach in Maine and finished in Ocean city Maryland...broke ... tired and happy... my '67 VW bug have up the ghost on the way home on the N.J. turnpike... we traded our remaining gear for a ride to the Mass. boarder.. then hitch hiked the rest of the way home... if you tried that today you'd get arrested for vagrancy...
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.. Ha.. good luck Jon...you and every other jabroney looking to repeat last seasons carnage...last time I fished the canal was 1976.... I'll settle for less fish and peace of mind...
in '76 I followed the striper migration south.. starting at Popham beach in Maine and finished in Ocean city Maryland...broke ... tired and happy... my '67 VW bug have up the ghost on the way home on the N.J. turnpike... we traded our remaining gear for a ride to the Mass. boarder.. then hitch hiked the rest of the way home... if you tried that today you'd get arrested for vagrancy...
That sir is how you EARN RESPECT. That makes me even happier that I had an opportunity to fish with you.
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.. Ha.. good luck Jon...you and every other jabroney looking to repeat last seasons carnage...last time I fished the canal was 1976.... I'll settle for less fish and peace of mind...
in '76 I followed the striper migration south.. starting at Popham beach in Maine and finished in Ocean city Maryland...broke ... tired and happy... my '67 VW bug have up the ghost on the way home on the N.J. turnpike... we traded our remaining gear for a ride to the Mass. boarder.. then hitch hiked the rest of the way home... if you tried that today you'd get arrested for vagrancy...
Sounds like one heck of an adventure.
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Sounds like one heck of an adventure.
.. I got back.. had no money...no place to live..no car... so I joined the army 3 days latter.
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.. I got back.. had no money...no place to live..no car... so I joined the army 3 days latter.
Hahaha! Even better. Thank you for your service Joe.
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.. Ha.. good luck Jon...you and every other jabroney looking to repeat last seasons carnage...last time I fished the canal was 1976.... I'll settle for less fish and peace of mind...
in '76 I followed the striper migration south.. starting at Popham beach in Maine and finished in Ocean city Maryland...broke ... tired and happy... my '67 VW bug have up the ghost on the way home on the N.J. turnpike... we traded our remaining gear for a ride to the Mass. boarder.. then hitch hiked the rest of the way home... if you tried that today you'd get arrested for vagrancy...
Thanks Joe. You'd be surprised to learn its awefully quiet out there at night im the spring. 330am hits and thats usually when I am packing up and the pencil popper crew is headed in. Last year my biggest bass that weekend was a notch under 40lbs!
I too have done popham to montauk. I dont recall if you were up there that year Jim from 247 had his brother up. I used to follow those bass north then south. Then....I started to catch bass in the 45-50" range at the canal. Deep at night with hardly anyone there. Ive been doing that for years now. I always skip the big daytime feeds, many times by default because I'm asleep from the night before.
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That sir is how you EARN RESPECT. That makes me even happier that I had an opportunity to fish with you.
I think for me the number of huge bass he's landed and that ive caught a few cows on his jointed eel earns him plenty of respect...
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First fish with sea lice on it yesterday in the river.
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Friend of a friend landed a 51.7 in CT.
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Thought I saw birds working two nights in a row well make it three. Huge blitz of schoolies as far as eye could see a fish every cast. So happy. Feeding on silversides. (Juvenile herring) giant clouds of them.
An amazing amount Bait all pushed in harbor now. Mackerels everywhere in Boston north channel.
Time to tune up surf gear for keepers
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plenty around if you know where to look.. hitting them both deep and shallow... upperman style jigs tipped with 4" sluggo for deep stuff... thin profile plugs and 9" sluggos for the shallow stuff..
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I have pictures but they are not posting..
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I have pictures but they are not posting..
I had the same issue Joe. I am not even able to view pictures off my phone anymore but everything works off my PC.
Side note - Caught a 32" bass this morning on a live pogey, full of sea lice.
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I had the same issue Joe. I am not even able to view pictures off my phone anymore but everything works off my PC.
Side note - Caught a 32" bass this morning on a live pogey, full of sea lice.
Nice...most of these fish were that size.. some I found latter were a tad bit larger.. 15lbs or so... as soon as the tide turned Monday night they stacked up behind a bridge abutment and whacked herring as they dropped back with the tide...they were mid water column in 20' of water..if you hit the cement and let the jig drop..most of the time it got inhaled on the way down..latter they dropped back and were smacking sand eels along the mud flats... chowing anything that moved..only problem this time of year is they are moving.. what works one tide may not work the next...every day if different..
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Thats clean living Joe. The canal is full of all sorts of life. Ill be down there all weekend.
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I had the same issue Joe. I am not even able to view pictures off my phone anymore but everything works off my PC.
Side note - Caught a 32" bass this morning on a live pogey, full of sea lice.
jesus how did it fit it in his mouth. how big was the pogy? was it a full adult one? suprised it could get it in his mouth.
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jesus how did it fit it in his mouth. how big was the pogy? was it a full adult one? suprised it could get it in his mouth.
You would be surprised. Yes full size pogey. I have caught 26" bass on full size live pogey. I live in Pogey central and have them the entire "season" here for the pickings. Some days full live pogeys are the ticket, some days only chunks. Some days just the heads and some days a full dead Pogey or nothing but a lure. Usually if I cycle through my options I catch a few bass when they are around.
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I too have managed to stuff a large bunker into a small bass. They have killed themselves doing that before. No ones seen a sufficated short? Greed gets them all choked up! :)
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pogies are starting to rebound in my neck of the woods around bourne. have seen a decent amount in the canal the last couple of years as well.
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Tons of Bait brought tons of fish. Set the shallow water alarm off on FF. Clouds of fish lots of fun on fly rod. Got in before rain came. Great night of Fishing every cast for a while. They’re coming home
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pogies are starting to rebound in my neck of the woods around bourne. have seen a decent amount in the canal the last couple of years as well.
Yup. There used to be a ton of them in the canal when I started fishing there. Now it seems the main bait is macks.
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I've seen a big increase in the number of blue backs this season. We had pogies around last season for the first time in a decade... then the pogie boats came in and scooped them all up..
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Thats interesting Joe. I hunted for those bluebacks hard late last season, found some gannets diving but no giant schools. There are some pogies in the canal but as of this am things remained quiet from what Im told.
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Thats interesting Joe. I hunted for those bluebacks hard late last season, found some gannets diving but no giant schools. There are some pogies in the canal but as of this am things remained quiet from what Im told.
.. you need that big bait to hold the slobs... I'm holding out hope for a good season...I'm bringing my own gas into the marina.. after last season debacle.. I'm not trusting any gas bought on the water...
]those blue backs are a major spring time big fish staple.. they sustain them on their migration north... any other food source is a bonus.. it gives me great hope to see so many...we used to trailer down to pleasant bay ( before the breach)... spend the night catching herring and be out of bait 2 hours after sun rise... anything less than 500 lbs of bass was a bad morning!
Maybe those pogies were the scouts...PREPARE FOR BATTLE!
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I love the enthusiasm Joe. I can't wait. A 50 was taken in the canal already and I have confirmed a bass that weighed 48 was nailed this week. Im fishing 9pm until at least 8am Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. Canal bike is ready and I am also considering some spots north of the canal maybe as far up as Crane. I bet there's some bass by the ipswitch...
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I love the enthusiasm Joe. I can't wait. A 50 was taken in the canal already and I have confirmed a bass that weighed 48 was nailed this week. Im fishing 9pm until at least 8am Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. Canal bike is ready and I am also considering some spots north of the canal maybe as far up as Crane. I bet there's some bass by the ipswitch...
.. the enthusiasm isn't what it once was...I've been doing this for 50 years... I hope I live long enough to complete the goal of 20 ( fish over 50 lbs.)... 2 to go... I can do it in a single night if I get the right school of fish ( in 2014 I took a 54 and a 56 lb fish back to back casts... I took 3 over 50 including a 61 the first week of July in '86 and a 58 form Head of the meadow beach that September)... ) last year I didn't break 40lb for the first time in 30 years... I'd bet a saw buck I break 40 before July 1 this year...I can feel it!
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.. the enthusiasm isn't what it once was...I've been doing this for 50 years... I hope I live long enough to complete the goal of 20 ( fish over 50 lbs.)... 2 to go... I can do it in a single night if I get the right school of fish ( in 2014 I took a 54 and a 56 lb fish back to back casts... I took 3 over 50 including a 61 the first week of July in '86 and a 58 form Head of the meadow beach that September)... ) last year I didn't break 40lb for the first time in 30 years... I'd bet a saw buck I break 40 before July 1 this year...I can feel it!
I wish you nothing but the best for your ultimate goal!
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I wish you nothing but the best for your ultimate goal!
thanks..time for the young bulls to take over... this old bull now walks down the hill and looks to catch 1...I no longer need to catch them all! ;D ;)...striper fishing has been good to me..if I never catch another Cow.. my life is still good!
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thanks..time for the young bulls to take over... this old bull now walks down the hill and looks to catch 1...I no longer need to catch them all! ;D ;)...striper fishing has been good to me..if I never catch another Cow.. my life is still good!
Anytime!
My ultimate goal is a 15lb fluke, maybe even state record which is over 17lbs. I have many over 10lbs so its bound to happen one day.
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.. the enthusiasm isn't what it once was...I've been doing this for 50 years... I hope I live long enough to complete the goal of 20 ( fish over 50 lbs.)... 2 to go... I can do it in a single night if I get the right school of fish ( in 2014 I took a 54 and a 56 lb fish back to back casts... I took 3 over 50 including a 61 the first week of July in '86 and a 58 form Head of the meadow beach that September)... ) last year I didn't break 40lb for the first time in 30 years... I'd bet a saw buck I break 40 before July 1 this year...I can feel it!
Who's this guy
https://youtu.be/dpUvoGdi8rE (https://youtu.be/dpUvoGdi8rE)
Im with Mike. I am sure you'll nail 2 more. There is a guy no one knows at the canal, nearly has the same numbers. Ironically named Joe as well! His foil jobs on magic swimmers are absolutely insane. Looks just like a blueback. Last year while a fluke, saw some 60lbers landed in the big river.
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heading down tonight to bourne. will probably jig the canal tonight and fish the am.
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heading down tonight to bourne. will probably jig the canal tonight and fish the am.
Good luck. One more drag day at work for me.
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Who's this guy
https://youtu.be/dpUvoGdi8rE (https://youtu.be/dpUvoGdi8rE)
Im with Mike. I am sure you'll nail 2 more. There is a guy no one knows at the canal, nearly has the same numbers. Ironically named Joe as well! His foil jobs on magic swimmers are absolutely insane. Looks just like a blueback. Last year while a fluke, saw some 60lbers landed in the big river.
arrrg.. that was almost 10 years ago..now I REALLY feel old!
Going for haddock in the morning...hopefuly they are at my inshore spot..it's only a little over a 5 mile ride from the mouth of the river..
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Good luck Joe catch them up!
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Good luck Joe catch them up!
I've got a gallon of clams left over from last season... I bet they are beyond ripe!... I'll put a bait on the bottom and chum for mackerel...if I get some..I'll fish strip baits... fresh mack. strips will outfish "aged" clams 5:1... fishing fish bait gives me a shot at a halibut... I'm 0 fer 3... had a big one boat side 3 times 2 years ago and ended breaking it off( dropped loop) on it's last attempt to get free when I tried to gaff it.. :(
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Deerhunter on here got a nice halibut a year or two ago. I hope you nail one, it'd be great if they came back. Draggers prevent it.
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Deerhunter on here got a nice halibut a year or two ago. I hope you nail one, it'd be great if they came back. Draggers prevent it.
.. I know he did..I gave Bill the parts to repair his lower unit when his met it's untimely demise..there's definatly more of them around than there was 20 years ago..a big one is a hand full when you are alone..
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Nice, was not aware you knew eachother. Work is dragging today...a day with sw winds...the direction I need them to be. They will turn east this weekend and I expect that will slow down the bite. I bet south cape beach is blueish mania now.
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all us old pharts know each other...Bill actually did some work for my company on the hydrogen dock
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Ive found within fishing circles it tends to be a small world. Lavaman found me on a deserted south county RI beach last year late in the season. I haven't bumped into anyone from 247 down at the canal for years.
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all us old pharts know each other...Bill actually did some work for my company on the hydrogen dock
Now you know another old fart Joe. ;D
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The canal has been slow the last few days
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The canal has been slow the last few days
Yeah I got two small schoolies yesterday morning. I was the only one that I saw or talked to that got anything in ththe canal. One guy got two keepers in buzzards bay.
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I got 6 small bass and 2 keepers in a private part of the canal. The keepers were 30in and 32in and all fish were on bait.
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Yeah I got two small schoolies yesterday morning. I was the only one that I saw or talked to that got anything in ththe canal. One guy got two keepers in buzzards bay.
There was some fish this morning. I ripped home today to grab my other custom amd to drop off the broken one. d**n bike falls. Headed back out now just have a 3hr drive.
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good luck. sucks you had to head back i guess they slayed them in the afternoon at the east end with fish to 35lbs. this is not my word but the guys at canal bait.
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good luck. sucks you had to head back i guess they slayed them in the afternoon at the east end with fish to 35lbs. this is not my word but the guys at canal bait.
Heard the same. Left about 6 hours too early.
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Found blue backs(alewife) in with Shad a week ago. No pogies yet on north shore. Both are large baits for large fish.
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good luck. sucks you had to head back i guess they slayed them in the afternoon at the east end with fish to 35lbs. this is not my word but the guys at canal bait.
I missed out. Oh well Ive done my share of cow slaying down there in the past decade. Scary how poor the fishing has become in 10 years.
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Got my first down in Rhode Island last night fun 30 minute sleigh ride on the kayak fish went 41 inches
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Got my first down in Rhode Island last night fun 30 minute sleigh ride on the kayak fish went 41 inches
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Gotta love hooking into a big girl in the yak. I'll be doing the same the weekend of the 9-10th.
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Nice fish Pat.
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those are some interesting rocks :rotflol:
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Nice fish bud. Don't blame ya for editing the background. I won't talk online about surfcasting spots unless they are well known like the breeches, montauk or canal. I have spots in rhody we use canal bikes to get into. Just how that game goes. The more work you put in to find your "spots" the better the reward can be.
Speaking of...Mike any interest in dropping a surf bum off at Cutty? Early June can be insane. Need a ride to get there though!
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Nice fish
I got three last night nothing over 20”
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Nice fish bud. Don't blame ya for editing the background. I won't talk online about surfcasting spots unless they are well known like the breeches, montauk or canal. I have spots in rhody we use canal bikes to get into. Just how that game goes. The more work you put in to find your "spots" the better the reward can be.
Speaking of...Mike any interest in dropping a surf bum off at Cutty? Early June can be insane. Need a ride to get there though!
PM me some details/plans.
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PM me some details/plans.
Ill shoot ya a text. I had all of those logistics. I have extra surf gear if you wanted to play too. Lots of topwater action out there.
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Ill shoot ya a text. I had all of those logistics. I have extra surf gear if you wanted to play too. Lots of topwater action out there.
Sounds good!
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https://youtu.be/j9fq4cDowtw (https://youtu.be/j9fq4cDowtw)
Charlie at CMS is the man...
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First keeper Saturday 30” not bad cause I only got one mackerel on kayak. Felt good to hear drag sing a little.
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First keeper Saturday 30” not bad cause I only got one mackerel on kayak. Felt good to hear drag sing a little.
Curious how you get the macks on your kayak. Are you using a sabiki rig to jig them up?
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Curious how you get the macks on your kayak. Are you using a sabiki rig to jig them up?
yes sabiki. Trolling
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Curious how you get the macks on your kayak. Are you using a sabiki rig to jig them up?
Find B Bouy. Macks usually out that way in the harbor. Then take them to deer island rip and, well let them rip!
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Find B Bouy. Macks usually out that way in the harbor. Then take them to deer island rip and, well let them rip!
Think that area is fishable in the kayak? The rip out in Buzzards Bay got pretty bad during an incoming tide. Obviously I couldnt resist drifting an eel through it a couple times but the waves hitting the back of the yak tends to want to turn you sideways.
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Think that area is fishable in the kayak? The rip out in Buzzards Bay got pretty bad during an incoming tide. Obviously I couldnt resist drifting an eel through it a couple times but the waves hitting the back of the yak tends to want to turn you sideways.
I can't answer that honestly Pat. I guess it would depend on how big your stones are. I'd avoid that rip on a minus tide. I'd avoid it during the day (boat traffic) but from deer island itself it can be fished. Big bass inhabit that rip at times!
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If she’s ripping,use caution or you flipping. See power boat sink with three quick ones over the transom there. Pm me sometime if your coming north shore I prefer the faun bars.
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That spot is nice. Around castle island can be good too. Even in the "sugar bowl" at times.