06-22-2002, 06:35 PM
BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE- Stripers -6/22/02<br><br>The highlight of the week was the Blitz off Boston’s outer-harbor on Wednesday and Thursday. This school of big bass, covered with sea-lice, has been hanging around outside for the past two weeks feeding on mackerel and herring. When they show, the action is spectacular and show they did nid-week. <br><br>On Wednesday, Allen Levick of Newton Ctr., MA and friend Speare Christos experienced this once in a lifetime bonanza—better than as good as it gets! Casting large herring patterns on the T-3’s with 400 grain DepthCharge line and Fin-S rubber-baits, in Mackerel and Smelt colors, on spinning gear, matched the bait. The stripers took the presentation aggressively while actively pursuing their quarry to the surface. Allen’s best of the day were a couple of 36”, 18 pound bass while Speare’s two trophy bass of 42”, 28 pounds and 40” and 25 pounds were our best bass landed. Most of the bass were keepers. Double hook-ups were common and at times we tripled, casting to the breaking bass. Switching to surface presentations on the long rods was just as productive. Sliders, gurglers and Strakele’s foam poppers in yellow or orange worked well as did Texas-rigged Slug-gos on light-spinning gear. The surface feeding continued late into the outgoing tide. The happy anglers boated and released 31 keepers between 28 and 42 inches as well as numerous other sub-legal fish over 24 inches.<br><br>Thursday was more of the same for the “split-charter”, comprised of Brian McCarthy of Boston and Dean Romanow of Framingham,MA, except more of the bass were sub-legal size. The surface activity started with the ebbing tide. Again, large herring flies and the Fin-S rubber baits were most productive. Dean was very impressive with the performance of the Vortex anti-reverse on big fish vowing to own one in the near future.. Surface action continued until the early afternoon. The fish were more selective and surface presentations did not work as well as they did on Wednesday. Nevertheless, the anglers tallied 15 legal bass. Brian’s landed h is personal best of 35” and 15 pounds. On Friday and Saturday the outer-harbor was a desert, so we were relegated to the rocks and ledges off Cohasset.<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