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Happy mid-August from Baymen!
Today it is pouring outside and we have an East wind and very high tides, close to twelve feet. Tomorrow the rain goes away and the rest of our week looks lovely. It feels so much like fall this August. I even saw two maple trees turning in town! A portent to an early fall? Time will tell…
BASS have been in Dux/Ply bay better than they were in July. In fact, we have had a few really amazing mornings in August that I attribute to the cool weather. Summmer fish seem to have settled in and a handful of keeper bass are inside. Some fish up to 38″ inches are being landed in the bay fairly regularly. But more common are small keepers to schoolies. Some days are tougher than others, but thats just fishing in general, as you know.
BIG BASS continue to be caught south of us in great numbers! The Cape Cod Canal, aka “The Ditch” has been very consistent this August. Pro angler, Roy Leyva, went eleven days straight landing a striped bass over 30 pounds in the canal!!! But that’s Roy. The rest of us get lucky now and then if we put our time in. P-Town was on fire earlier this season with 100+ boats fishing the big blitz some mornings. Chatham last year was lit up with big fish due to a zilion pogies in those waters. This season, the reports have quieted down but my guess is thats just because the reports have quieted down, if you catch my drift. I get reports and photos almost daily from some guides in New York waters and the fishing for big bass seems better there than anywhere this season.
TUNA bite is all about Martha’s Vineyard this season with a ton of small footballs. I know a few guides there catching double digits some mornings on light tackle. So if footballs get you fired up, thats the place to be right now. For the “giants” this season, your guess is as good as mine??? I hear a lot of grumbling about the seine netters east of Stellwagon taking a ton of tuna, but I don’t really know the facts of this regulated fishery.
FRESHWATER has been decent. You may have seen a nice largemouth I landed on a rubber frog a while back. The other night I guided a young angler to his first rainbow trout on the fly rod and it was a dandy fish! My friend, Tom Laliberte landed four trout, two days ago in Little Pond in Plymouth.
THE BAYMEN LIFE TELVEVISON SHOW continues to roll forward in the production stage. When I founded The Baymen Life 2.5 years ago, I figured it would take about 1.5 years to get up and running and on the networks. I realize now, it takes about 3.5 years to build and launch a top outdoor program! It continues to be a learning curve, an exciting one, and a ton of long hours, day in and day out, to make it all happen. Each year, new pieces of the puzzle come together, including pre-production, production, post-production, sales, marketing, media, research, writing… It’s a long checklist of daily and monthly tasks, jsut like running any company. Most of it is all business management related, that has nothing to do with what you see on a weekly television show in your living room or on electronic devices. In the end, our show will be the finest show possible on the networks. The Baymen Life: Fishing, Hunting & Outdoor Aventure in New England!
So that brings us up to date at Baymen! I have been so busy, that my goal of writing a daily Baymen Report has just not been possible. But I am shooting for getting several reports up each week to keep everyone up to date. So stay posted: The best of the season is about to begin as we coast through August right into September…!
Tight Lines & Good Fishing!
Sincerely,
Capt. Dave Bitters
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A few pics from Vermont, where I love to go when I am not fishing: