10-11-2002, 02:48 PM
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-Stripers 10/11/02[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]The bait concentration in Boston Harbor is still the best of the season. Peanut bunker are in such dense schools that when fly fishers cast to the feeding bass and blues coursing through the bait, peanut bunker are frequently hooked on strip-retrieving the fly.
As a result, fishing as been as good as it gets for bass in numbers in Boston’s inner-harbor and the bays and coves along the coast. Further, water temperatures also remain optimal. The only limiting factor appears to be weather. Easterlies have been putting the fish down due to the attending pressure changes.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Roger Cook of Burlington, MA and friends, departing from Rowe’s Wharf, had a great trip on Sunday fishing the Harbor and the coves off Lynn and Nahant. The fly casters had the best luck, once again with the Grocery fly fished down with 400 grain DepthCharge line and yellow and white foam-head poppers fished on Wonderline. Two small keeper bass in the low 30-inch size class as well as numerous bass between 24 and 27 inches were brought to boat-side and released. The spin casters found Fin-S rubber-baits and pearl Slug-gos effective.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Thursday trip for the split-charter of Dean Romano (Framingham, MA) and Brian McCarthy (Boston, MA) was the fly-casting Duo’s second outing to the Harbor together. They fished in June where they experienced one of this season’s 20 keeper days, catching big bass feeding heavily on mackerel and alewife in the outer-harbor. Thursday’s trip was non-stop from the get-go at 7:00 right to the end at noon. Both Hingham and Quincy bay were teaming with breaking bass and blues, birds wheeling and bunker fleeing, the predators above and below, though most of the morning tide. Both anglers connected with their first blue on the fly. Four keeper bass came over the rails.[/size][/font]
[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Both bass and blues took just about anything that that the fly casters pitched to them—either surface or sub-surface. [/font][/size]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Capt. Mike Bartlett[/size][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]B-Fast Charters[/size][/font]
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