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I had a work trip planned to MA and was able to come up early to get some fishing in. We hit the Boston Harbor, Buzzard's Bay and North Shore over the weekend. We fished hard and while fishing was not as productive as some of my past trips up here we still caught a lot of fish and we caught some new species which is always cool.
Friday - Boston Harbor - You know what they say about sunset pictures... straight skunk! We were watching a cell of T-Storms on the radar and missed peak current bc we did not want to be too far from the car when they broke loose. They ended up bypassing our location but it made for a weird night with no real current to be found. We marked some fish but they had lock jaw.
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Saturday - Buzzard's Bay - We were hoping to catch the tail end of the Black Sea Bass run but that seems to be winding down. We caught a few but none of the really large ones so we let them all go. In the process of trying we did stumble on a pile of Flounder (FLOOOK to the northern tribe) and proceeded to catch them for the rest of the day. Keeper size is 16" @ 5 fish up there and we easily caught a 3 or 4 man limit. We opted to only keep the 18" or larger fish and came home with 8 with the largest being about 22". It was an awesome day of flounder fishing (my best ever) and once we made strip bait out of a sea robin it was game on while the other kayakers in the area watched. It was kind of a weird scene, there were about 4 other kayakers out there in the same area but none of them were social at all and wouldn't talk to us. They would however try to edge us out of our spots. It was pretty weird but kinda awesome to be catching more fish than them... At one point I had three founder on at the same time because I was fishing a second rod in a rod holder. That was definitely a first! We also met some cool dudes from NH that had a very tricked out islander with a motor, cooler, and storage box on it. The second passenger was riding on the cooler and the motor was powering the kayak. Seemed like an awesome fishing machine for big water!
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Friday - Boston Harbor - You know what they say about sunset pictures... straight skunk! We were watching a cell of T-Storms on the radar and missed peak current bc we did not want to be too far from the car when they broke loose. They ended up bypassing our location but it made for a weird night with no real current to be found. We marked some fish but they had lock jaw.
DSCN0498.jpgDSCN0496.jpg
Saturday - Buzzard's Bay - We were hoping to catch the tail end of the Black Sea Bass run but that seems to be winding down. We caught a few but none of the really large ones so we let them all go. In the process of trying we did stumble on a pile of Flounder (FLOOOK to the northern tribe) and proceeded to catch them for the rest of the day. Keeper size is 16" @ 5 fish up there and we easily caught a 3 or 4 man limit. We opted to only keep the 18" or larger fish and came home with 8 with the largest being about 22". It was an awesome day of flounder fishing (my best ever) and once we made strip bait out of a sea robin it was game on while the other kayakers in the area watched. It was kind of a weird scene, there were about 4 other kayakers out there in the same area but none of them were social at all and wouldn't talk to us. They would however try to edge us out of our spots. It was pretty weird but kinda awesome to be catching more fish than them... At one point I had three founder on at the same time because I was fishing a second rod in a rod holder. That was definitely a first! We also met some cool dudes from NH that had a very tricked out islander with a motor, cooler, and storage box on it. The second passenger was riding on the cooler and the motor was powering the kayak. Seemed like an awesome fishing machine for big water!
DSCN0508.jpgDSCN0505.jpgDSCN0501.jpgDSCN0500.jpgDSCN0499.jpgIMG_5140.jpgIMG_5145.jpg
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