Buzzards Bay report 9/16/17

[Ron75]

Arrived at sunrise to pretty thick fog. Waited about an hour for it to clear and glad I waited. Heard fish in the distance on the surface. Visibility was still only 150 yards or so. Found the fish and starting catching 18-20 inch stripers. I couldn't find any larger so after a bit I moved on to other bait pods. That's when I ran into the albies. I hooked up on 3. The first I lost pretty quickly. The second I had on for a while, but put too much pressure and snapped him off. The third I hooked on a purple epoxy jig, and finally landed one and here he is. IMG_1074.JPG
After that landed a blue. Then I saw something that I have never seen before. In 25 ft of water, seabass feeding on the surface actually throwing themselves out of the water. Caught and released a bunch of them. Tried to fish under the seabass for striper or fluke, but couldn't keep the seabass off. IMG_1075.JPG
Blue for the smoker. A good trip.


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[EMSer]

Sounds like a great trip, bud. Any outing that includes bluefish, bass and allies is a home run, in my book!

[Yak67]

+1 on that

Yak67

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[Ron75]

It was pretty cool. Discovery channel-Esque with all the bait jumping out of the water. Need to get out again soon before they are gone.


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[summersoff]

Great report. Topwater for seabass, now that's a first. I have been hearing good albie reports for up there. You had an amazing August on the canal. Hope you were able to hit it. I was able to hit the tail end with marginal success. Thinking of heading back next week for the new moon, but I heard storms are expected.

[Ron75]

Great report. Topwater for seabass, now that's a first. I have been hearing good albie reports for up there. You had an amazing August on the canal. Hope you were able to hit it. I was able to hit the tail end with marginal success. Thinking of heading back next week for the new moon, but I heard storms are expected.

I've never seen anything so odd. 8-14 inch seabass awkwardly throwing themselves into the air, but they kind jump like me, feet(tail fin)barely leave the ground!


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[Ron75]

I've never seen anything so odd. 8-14 inch seabass awkwardly throwing themselves into the air, but they kind jump like me, feet(tail fin)barely leave the ground!


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[Romo]

Nice report! I just came back from 3 days on Martha's Vineyard and the fishing was INSANE. Lots of action up in that general area right now. I caught my first seabass on topwater last year fishing for albies on MV. Saw fish boiling, casted an epoxy jig at them, fish bit and fought like a wet rag and I reeled in a 14 inch black seabass. Couldn't believe it!

[Goody]

That sounds awesome. I might have to get up there at some point and check it out. Is it like that in the fall and spring?

[Ron75]

Just the fall for albies. They are starting to move out now as the water cools.


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