July 19, Beach finally produces, Flats on and off.

The weekend finally brought some relief for the beach fishermen. The stripers were cruising the shallows out front and were pretty active. It was better at night, but the daylight hours worked too. Some of the guys and gals with a spread of rods along parking lot 1 in the reserve were reporting that one rod would go off, bring it in, and another would start to go too. There were plenty of small fish, but big ones too. We weighed in a 33 pounder and a few 20′s from the beach.

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Joppa Flats was on Friday, off Saturday, and on again Sunday. Friday saw one local grabbing 30 fish, almost all shorts, on the tube and worm. Six to 7 fish for another, and a few keepers along the way. Saturday, however, the fish just would not bite. I had calls from two very frustrated anglers. Then Sunday morning the fish got active again, and even the rookies came home with some fillets for the grill.

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Here are some pics of kids getting the Striper fever. Picture number one is of Charlie with his first striper on his dad’s new boat, and also the first striper of the season for him. Second picture is of twins Ben and Max with their first stripers ever. Two 30 inch keepers. They also grabbed a few smaller fish all the way down to 18″.

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Posted under Fishing Plum Island by admin 19.07.2010
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July 16, More Stubborn Fish

All around the island yesterday and today were large schools of stubborn fish. Stubborn, and tormenting. On Joppa Flats for the past few days there have been hordes of fish schooling, sunning, and spooking. They are pretty much refusing all forms of lures, bait, and flies thrown at them. Of the dozen or so boats on the flats this morning I only saw a few fish boated, even though there were hundreds of fish in each school, and they were sometimes cruising the topwater. Nothing kept their attention for long. They’d pup up feasting on little bait and then disappear just as fast.

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Thee were big clouds of sand eel fry in the river. Maybe the bass are all full from gorging the eels and don’t feel the need to chase artificials. At any rate, they are really frustrating the regular flotilla.

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The only bright spot for Joppa guys seems to be the steady results from the Tube and Worm. Red tubes with whole worms seem to work the best. Even with the picky fish this method seems to be working.

Surfland Bait and Tackle
28 Plum Island Blvd
Plum Island, Ma
http://www.surflandbt.com/