Too Much Bait!!!

[marcus220]

hey guys,went out this weekend stripe-ah fishin and caught several small 20"-37"bass.it appears the big fish are just too plum full to want what i have to offer.{macks,herring,pogies}i did however,have a nice one on and the line separated at the mono/braid connection,my screwup,bad knot,no excuse. heck i even jigged up some smelts from my slip on the navy yard.a friend of mine got hit by a tuna,out to new scantum.he was trollin live macks when he had the hit,said he should have let him suck it in longer,probably a large football.dogfish galour outside on the humps.forget about bait fishin.flounder fishins improved according to some friends who limited out yesterday.goin out this week to fish off the beaches/breakers at night,with eels/macks,i should have better results.will check in at the end of the week.

[kkevvy]

Sounds like a good time... congrats on the fish!

[marcus220]

thanks kkevvy,oh,two big fish were caught,a 46"& a 45".the latter caught in front of prescott park,the other off the sound basin marina in the back channel.

[kkevvy]

Damn! Nice! I'm gonna try to get some macks tomorrow.... hopefully I'll get as lucky as you!

[Riverjim]

Man I have to get better at this striper thing...

I would not include 37 " fish in my list of small ones...and 45" would be my biggest. I guess maybe with practice, some day I will call a keeper small?

[marcus220]

riverjim,nothin wrong with a 37 incher.in me.they have to be 40" to keep.although i release most of those. i keep a small one now and again.we do a lot of fishin on lobsta boats where i see fish that will break the 50 mark quite often.they seem to know when we arrive and start dumpin the old bait bags,follow us from trap to trap.drop a piece of hooked herrin over side and let the fun begin,but most of the time,because of their speed, its the smaller bass37"-40"bass that end up gettin hooked.

[Riverjim]

I guess I've got to start lobstering too..

[kkevvy]

Jim! Do you ever check your private messages? lol

[marcus220]

fished the piscat.{kittery side}at 5:00am this morning and man right in the middle of a feeding blitz.fish of all sizes were surface feeding.i caught at least 14 bass from 20" to 39"and had a bigger one cut me off on a bridge piling.i left the dock{i have a fish keeper}with 23 tinker macs and returned with only 3 left.the fish were feedin on those 3"herring.released all to catch another day.

[cold waters]

what did ya catch them on?? all macs?! i am guessing you didnt get far from your dock??? i have done well some mornings over there