06-12-2002, 10:34 PM
BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-Stripers 6/11/02<br><br><br>Tuesday’s bass fishing in the outer-harbor was as good as it gets! Orvis ELOG Director, Bill Bullock of VT and avid fly-rodder, Steve Pensinger from Boston, MA had a once in a lifetime day with the long rod. A huge school of linesiders has been feed outside on herring and mackerel for the past two weeks. When they show, the fishing is fast and furious, as it was for the two lucky fly fishermen.<br><br>Most all the bass in the school were 24” and up. Tom Keer’s epoxy-head herring pattern was the ticket as an imitator for the bait fish.. 400 grain DepthCharge line on the 9 wgt. Tip-flex T-3’s got the presentations into the strike zone. These bass were healthy, fat fish, which fought hard in the relatively cold, 50 degree water. Bullock took his “personal-best” bass of 34 inches and 14 pounds on the herring fly. Steve’s 35 inch, 15 pound bass was the best landed for the day.<br><br>Both anglers landed double-digit numbers of keeper bass on the subsurface presentations. Switching to Floating Wonderline, the anglers cast surface presentations ---pink and white sliders and Strakele’s foam-head poppers in orange & white and yellow ---which produced great surface action. Squadrons of keeper bass could be seen following and competing for the surface poppers. The surface feeding blitz continued late into the flooding tide, dropping off around noon.<br><br>Steve sent an email after his afternoon siesta to say that when people asked him, “How many did you catch?” He replied, “I have no idea!”<br><br>Capt. Mike Bartlett<br>B-Fast Charters<br>www.bfastcharters.com<br><br><br><br><br>Capt. Mike Bartlett<br>B-Fast Charters<br>www.bfastcharters.com