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MFF US Northeast => Massachusetts => Topic started by: Knot there yet on May 04, 2017, 08:30 PM
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First couple of fish of season(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi44.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff31%2Fdmlurv1%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F2017-03%2FF3781C8F-22CD-4A79-8ED1-3B965DDC991B_zpsk96rhabm.jpg&hash=2c618463a990efa27c59a0b6fadb965c) (http://s44.photobucket.com/user/dmlurv1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-03/F3781C8F-22CD-4A79-8ED1-3B965DDC991B_zpsk96rhabm.jpg.html)(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi44.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff31%2Fdmlurv1%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F2017-03%2F32946F19-B491-404C-8F22-8F08A2228659_zpst0urcoub.jpg&hash=a967ab2b63bfbc9e9d936a605a3dd701) (http://s44.photobucket.com/user/dmlurv1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-03/32946F19-B491-404C-8F22-8F08A2228659_zpst0urcoub.jpg.html)
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Nice work!
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Love those bass! I may try to get some on the fly this year :o
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stripers from 8-15lbs in the canal this morning. caught 2 and saw a few more caught. They are here :)
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Can't wait. I'll be at the ditch tomorrow and Sunday.
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Just amazed at how small some of the fish that migrate north are. That's a long way for 9" fish to swim. I never knew they were running from the bigger stripers till couple years ago. Now I know that they cannibalize the young. I wonder if the science on juvenile fatalities includes the one lost to the adults. As we know class of 2011 are mature fish now (28")and what will be the impact on the stock from them. From the hearing on stripers I've attended it's about fatality rates that the stock is managed. When do they become they're own problem. Will we have to cull this massive class of fish from 2011. Maybe a slot limit could be put in place to achieve this. 24" is the biggest fish so far and plenty of micro's so far. (9"-16"). Have the spawning numbers for this come out yet?
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Small stripers may not be traveling as far as you think.
Stripers spawn in numerous waterways, from Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River, Connecticut River, heck even the Merrimack and Mystic Rivers have had spawning fish.
Sure, the vast majority of fish may be coming north from southern locales, but there are lots of local fish that never really "leave" the area.
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Small stripers may not be traveling as far as you think.
Stripers spawn in numerous waterways, from Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River, Connecticut River, heck even the Merrimack and Mystic Rivers have had spawning fish.
Sure, the vast majority of fish may be coming north from southern locales, but there are lots of local fish that never really "leave" the area.
X2.
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School is in. Caught so many schoolies last two nights that we quit fishing and went home. Ever cast as soon as hit the water. Circle Octopus hooks did the job all hooked in the mouth and released healthy. Guys up the beach didn't have as much luck. Saw the sea gulls picking off the dead fish they gut hooked and released. Why they won't mandate circle hooks for bait fishing is beyond me. I used to fish the schoolies hard but last few years have not been into harassing the young ones. Got new angler and showing how striper fish so that's why we did it. Haven't seen a keeper yet. The sheer numbers are impressive.New angler is gut hooked wants to go everyday and every tide change. I started striper fishing in 1980s. It was hard even to get schoolies then. These new guys think the ocean is full of fish. 2011 class has to be here or close now. We had pogies all last summer I can only hope that this year we get them again
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School is in. Caught so many schoolies last two nights that we quit fishing and went home. Ever cast as soon as hit the water. Circle Octopus hooks did the job all hooked in the mouth and released healthy. Guys up the beach didn't have as much luck. Saw the sea gulls picking off the dead fish they gut hooked and released. Why they won't mandate circle hooks for bait fishing is beyond me. I used to fish the schoolies hard but last few years have not been into harassing the young ones. Got new angler and showing how striper fish so that's why we did it. Haven't seen a keeper yet. The sheer numbers are impressive.New angler is gut hooked wants to go everyday and every tide change. I started striper fishing in 1980s. It was hard even to get schoolies then. These new guys think the ocean is full of fish. 2011 class has to be here or close now. We had pogies all last summer I can only hope that this year we get them again
Ever consider going after them with a fly rod? I'd imagine catching schoolies on the fly rod would reduce or eliminate gut hooking juvenile fish and give you a little bit more of a fight when you catch a lot of shorts.
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Ever consider going after them with a fly rod? I'd imagine catching schoolies on the fly rod would reduce or eliminate gut hooking juvenile fish and give you a little bit more of a fight when you catch a lot of shorts.
Oh yeah on the fly on top is amazing. In the river not the surf water still chilly for waders out front.
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First keepers caught last night two 33" fish with tons of schoolies in mix. The fun bunch caught them. 24" was my biggest fish.
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First keepers caught last night two 33" fish with tons of schoolies in mix. The fun bunch caught them. 24" was my biggest fish.
Very cool. Canal season starts for me this weekend. Last year was tough year before I landed a 37lber.
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Small stripers may not be traveling as far as you think.
Stripers spawn in numerous waterways, from Chesapeake Bay, Hudson River, Connecticut River, heck even the Merrimack and Mystic Rivers have had spawning fish.
Sure, the vast majority of fish may be coming north from southern locales, but there are lots of local fish that never really "leave" the area.
There have been quite a few fish caught locally in great bay (NH) which the bios believe were born here. A lot of them are under ten inches. . I'd assume mass and Maine also have the same.
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Took my nephew out for his first night fishing excursion down in Duxbury.
He got his first schoolie down at the town pier (it's a fun place to start, as you can see a lot of what's happening and gauge your approach accordingly.
Left there and headed to where I wanted to get him started, and although he didn't catch any, we did get a few bites, heard plenty of fish splashes on the surface and he saw me lose a really good fish due to bad line (my fault). His expression at seeing a 30"+ bass was priceless.
Of course when we were leaving I asked if it was a fair bet that he's want to go there again, and he said "Hell, YEAH!"
And so a fishing buddy is born!!!
(Now I have to get him a pair of waders and get him into the surf.)
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Tim...Charlestown Dam. Great spot for a night excursion. If you can get there when water is being discharged...its awesome. When it isn't its very slow.
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First keeper 34" (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi44.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff31%2Fdmlurv1%2FMobile%2520Uploads%2F2017-03%2F8B1887ED-0812-43B7-B027-AC7643D71163_zps0ga70uc9.jpg&hash=8d6152ec8a3f7a660d7f20d8ffa619f9) (http://s44.photobucket.com/user/dmlurv1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2017-03/8B1887ED-0812-43B7-B027-AC7643D71163_zps0ga70uc9.jpg.html)
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nice :thumbup_smilie:
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Enough with the schoolies. We caught tons of them again only decent fish was 26" and that's not that decent. We'll try again hope with some bigger tides the bigger fish show up.
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Enough with the schoolies. We caught tons of them again only decent fish was 26" and that's not that decent. We'll try again hope with some bigger tides the bigger fish show up.
Would be fun to flyfish for those.
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Would be fun to flyfish for those.
They are a blast. I got into a blitz on Joppa one morning that lasted hours. Caught more than we cared to count, all on the fly rod from the yak.
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Nice Will well done. On my list. At the canal since last night. Largest so far high 20lbs. Oh you'd laugh...I bought a saragosa...
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Nice fish and photos guys
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Fishing was slow and abusive last night into this morning. Too many on first light patrol for my taste and quite a few guys fishing all night. Saw one fish break. Got lucky and got one fish jigging.
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Getting ready for another go tonight...
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That's the way to start the day.
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Great night on the water 12 keeper sized fish for me all over 30 inches was out with two other guys about 30 total fish caught all keeper size all on so minnows. Fun catching fish in front of all the boats think I saw 1 boat catch 1 they were all fishing pogies. Arms are pretty sore today
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Nice work.
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Nice work.
It was work for me....long night shifts with no jig pattern can be tough. An option guys typically forget at the canal saved the day a few times over!
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It was work for me....long night shifts with no jig pattern can be tough. An option guys typically forget at the canal saved the day a few times over!
I'm hoping to hit the salt this weekend, either the ditch or the yak. The tides at the ditch don't seem great but ya never know.
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I'm hoping to hit the salt this weekend, either the ditch or the yak. The tides at the ditch don't seem great but ya never know.
Once you fish there enough you'll have a spot for every tide condition. 8)
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Chased down some striper Saturday. Giant harbor seal and I fished same spot. Strange first time I've caught fish with seals close on north shore. Fish usually scatter when seals show up. Went out to sea to see tall ships and on way back in three seals on the rocks. The sharks are coming no doubt this year. Then the people will cry about the sharks not the seals crazy. The seals have claimed that spot now for the summer. Gonna have to make the kayak a spitfire model. And some teeth graphics on bow. Sunday me and osprey family fished together they showed me the bait. No fish on them but this is what I live for these baits 2-3lbs baits.
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They are a blast. I got into a blitz on Joppa one morning that lasted hours. Caught more than we cared to count, all on the fly rod from the yak.
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well I finally took the fly rod out I bought two years. Old timer told me I had to buy it he had it custom made for trolling for pike in his kayak. Went out on tidal flats in kayak with white bucktail fly going after stripers. Fishfinder told me I had locates school I put the fly out. It was game on for the next three hours one after the other after ten fish I removed the barb to prevent damage. Biggest fish was 20" on 6wt. 8'6" I may be the one that got hooked really. What a blast seeing that rod bend like that. Next trip may be fly rods only. Steelhead splashing in a river is one thing but stripers in open water wow. I want get a bluefish on fly rod now. I see a lot of my dollars being spent on this fly fishing thing now.
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Nice job. I am setting one up for albies myself!