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Fish On!: Fall is the best season to be a fisherman

jholey

September 12, 2014 by jholey

As we get into mid-September, things are starting to heat up. This past week I?ve been receiving reports that are really encouraging. It?s starting to sound like whispers of a Fall Run starting. For the first time this “Fall,” bass are blitzing on local beaches, complete with baitfish and birds, and the guys fishing the rivers and estuaries of the North Shore have been into some awesome fishing for a couple weeks now. Last week I heard that False Albacore and Bonito, small, but hard-fighting members of the Tuna family, were zipping around the Vineyard and Buzzards Bay, bending rods and screaming drags for many happy fishermen. When you hear Albies, funny fish, little tunny, whichever of their many names you want to use, hitting Vineyard beaches, you know the Fall is here. This is evident with the amount of bass and bait in the rivers and estuaries of the North Shore at the moment, and this past week I heard of local fisherman Steve Foulds catching 50 stripers on one trip in a local estuary. So the bass are here, and they?re fattening up for their migration South, which will start on any given tide now, with Mother Nature telling them, “It?s time.” Pretty soon we?ll start seeing waves of migrating bass, and hopefully blues, passing through our waters, feeding at will, on their way to the Chesapeake Bay and other Southerly points for spawning. So this is it, the Grand Finale of the Saltwater fishing season, the best fishing is about to happen, so all that is missing is you! It?s time to hit the beaches, armed with topwater plugs and metals, looking for piles of birds and breaking fish, and enjoy the best fishing that Mother Nature gives us each year!Here?s a look at our areas:Boston HarborThe harbor has picked up, and fishing is reported to be excellent. Bob?s Bait shack in Winthrop reported stripers to 30 pounds, and fish to 45 inches being taken on Tube N Worm rigs. The area around Deer Island into the harbor has given up quality stripers lately, with fish from 28-43 inches being taken on clams, seaworms, and cut mackerel. Pogies are being found around Hull Gut and fishermen reported bass to 40 pounds being caught on them, while “snagging and dragging.” The trick is to spot the pogies, snag one, and simply pull it out of the school, which usually results in a cow striper looking for a wounded baitfish!Lynn/NahantMusic to everyone?s ears: Blitz! This week I received multiple reports of full-on, heart-pounding striper blitzes around Lynn, Nahant, Swampscott, and Revere. Stripers in the 28-34 inch range were reportedly crashing peanut bunker (juvenile menhaden, or pogies) up against local beaches this week, mostly in the early mornings to late mornings. Look for the masses of birds concentrated over one area of water, and look for splashing below them. This is THE time of year for topwater plugs, and the sight of a big bass crashing your plug on the surface is as good as it gets. Make sure to have a few pencil poppers in your bag, you won?t regret it!Salem/MarbleheadGuys trolling Umbrella rigs are taking stripers to 42 inches in Salem Sound, and I heard a few reports of scattered mackerel out by the islands. Bass to 32 inches were taken by fishermen who found a few mackerel and slow trolled them out by Bakers and Misery Islands. Surface feeds are starting to happen in the early mornings and afternoons in Marblehead and Salem Harbors, with 28-30 inch bass chasing bait around, mainly herring fry and silversides.Cape Ann/NewburyportCape Ann is still getting a regular dose of the Blues, bluefish that is. Blues to 17 pounds were reported around Cape Ann, particularly off Halibut Point, as well as around Thatchers. Plum Island is just loaded with bait. Fishermen reported their fishfinders showing clouds of sand eels. That explains all the bass in that area! Consistent fishing for bass to 25 pounds is going on, both day and night from the Refuge. The night crowd is crushing bass in numbers in the 30-38 inch range slinging eels from the

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