Buzzards Bay 5/28

[Ron75]

Fished from sunrise till around 9:30am. Mostly a rising tide. Caught a few dozen seabass. All on 1-2oz spro jigs with 4 inch gulp. Kept 5. Here they are. IMG_0804.JPG


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[Ron75]

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[Ron75]

Keepers were 17-20inches.


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[Shady]

beautiful fish. Do the blueish ones have blue flesh?

[Ron75]

White flesh. Big males get blueish and knots on their heads. Females stay brown. From what I've read they start as females and then at some point get darker colored and eventually blueish coloration.


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[Shady]

Ok, I wasn't sure if they were like the blue lingcod. I've only caught small ones on the kayak and went on one deep drop trip a few years ago where we loaded up on seabass up to 4 lbs, but dont remember them looking blue.

[Ron75]

I'm not sure if maybe they get more blue during the spawn or if it is something different about the northern versions. I used to fish some wrecks short of B buoy off Indian River Inlet and every once in a while one would be blueish, but not nearly as dramatic.


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[Seasalt]

Wow... pretty fish. Where is Buzzards Bay?

[Ron75]

Massachusetts. Just south of the Bourne Bridge and canal. seabass come in to spawn. Otherwise it's a long paddle to get anything other than small fish. Most people just keep the males, so that the females can drop their eggs with the assumption that you don't need as many males to do the job. The males are that cool blue color. Females are brown.


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[JohnE]

Was out there a few times myself recently. Caught a bunch of sea bass and a couple fluke. Mostly just above keeper size and females, but I managed to land some real nice low to mid 20s fish.
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[Ron75]

Nice looking sea bass. I'll be out at the crack of dawn on Father's Day for my last sea bass trip this year. The fluke should be getting better as the sea bass leave with the warming water.


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[JohnE]

I was thinking about heading over this weekend also. Forecast looks tough for Sunday though. Ssw 14kt. Maybe it will be calm enough for a quick sunrise trip. I got a nice 21" fluke tues on artificial at beginning of current, but did not hang around to pull more drifts for fluke. I think current should be good at sunrise both sat and sun.

[Ron75]

Yeah the wind is going to be tough Sunday. I will probably be on and off after a couple of hours. Saturday is the better option, but I have family stuff all day. Good luck if you get out!


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[Ron75]

Got out this morning from sunrise till around 7:30am. Wind started to crank, but still caught plenty of fish. Kept 5 in the 17-20 inch rangeIMG_0917.JPG


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[Slobber Bob]

I wish we had good sea bass within kayak range of the Mid-Atlantic. Good eats!