4 Fish
On board today, I had my good friend, Richard Comstock, for day 3 of fly fishing the bay. Our first two days, we got into a few small bass and then hit the power plant and Browns Bank for monster bluefish on the fly! The bass fishing has been poor, but the blues have been very good. Many of the bluefish are over ten pounds, and one was estimated at fifteen pounds. A friend of a friend landed a 22 pounder at the PP! That is massive and I have never seen one over 18 lbs!
Well, today started out light NNW and eventually laying down to almost flat calm. A small pod of pogies were in the bay, but nothing was chasing them. We also had some decent schools of 3″-6″ inch baits inside the bay. Only a bass or two was with them, and they were all shorts.
We covered a lot of water today. Kingston was dead. Plymouth was dead. Berts was dead. Big rollers of 4-5 feet where at the Power Plant and rolling over Browns bank and it was just too dangerous for us to stay there and fish in my flats skiff. We left and cut across Browns Bank and back into Duxbury. We found a big pod of bass in two feet of water on a flat. We could see them clearly! We started to hook-up on a few fish until FIVE seals showed up and all the bass dissapeared in about one minute. We cruised a solid mile of shoreline flats with Richard up on the deck as the lookout, and never spotted another bass of a single piece of bait. Ugh!
With high water, we ran back into Kingston where we had fished five hours earlier, hoping the moving tide brought in some new fish. But it was dead up with no sign of fish.
We ended the morning with four fish. All fat, healthy schoolies. But it is a far cry of ten years back (or less) when in late September, 50-100 fish mornings were the norm.
Other news: A 51 pounder was weighed in at Belsan’s in Scituate. That fish was landed from a kyak! Also, a few (very few) big fish have been landed in Duxbury over the past week. I know of two. And there is still fish in Maine. So, we remain optimistic and hope we can fish the last three weeks of our season here and get into some big fish and some decent numbers of fish. The next three days, winds will be East. Not ideal but maybe some fall fish will look the other way and come into the bay and give us a blitz.
Stay posted:
Capt. Dave
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