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Author:
Redneckangler
Date:
May 19, 2013
Subject:
Bait, bait everywhere, and nary a striper to see.
Message:
Bait, bait everywhere, and nary a striper to see. I decided to move down river this weekend, despite the stripers still hanging north of Middletown. This was my first trip to the mouth of the CT River, as I had heard that action was pretty decent around Great Island the last week or so. After yesterday afternoon's trip cut short (20 min. total) by a problem with the Lowrance, I was back on the water at 5am this morning. The tide was coming in until about 7:30, and it was dead calm. I'll never get tired of a sunrise over the water.
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I started throwing pearl Sluggos and some swim baits, and had a few swirls and swipes, but no hooksets. Close to and hour and a half of work did not produce a fish, nor did I see any pulled in by anyone else in the area. I decided to motor north and see what I could find. A few swirls above the 95 bridge, but I just couldn't get a fish to bite.
Just below Hamburg Cove, the water exploded with herring. I was marking a school so thick It looked like the bottom was at 10 feet in 30+ feet of water.
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Surely, bass had to be beneath. I dropped soft plastics through the school, bouncing them of fish as they descended. I fished swimbaits at every level and sluggos on top. Nada. Nothing. I wasn't marking any big fish either. Same story with two or three other boats that had been working the school for a while. Livelining may have been the trick, but also illegal with river run herring.
Time running short, I ran back to the mouth where the earlier action repeated itself. Swirls, but no takers. I'm sure I could have ground out a fish or two, but I had to be in early. This was my first, and hopefully last, skunk of the season.
PS - Next week it's all NaCl!!!
Author:
fishfinder
Date:
May 20, 2013
Message:
Same thing on shore for me. Ran into plenty of herring and some large pods of bunker but nothing under them!
Author:
PECo
Date:
May 20, 2013
Message:
I was in Boston, yesterday, and saw a lot of river (aka blueback) herring swirling on the south bank of the Charles River underneath the Harvard Bridge:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHEOLGg6_Y&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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