CoastalWx Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Striper fishing off Long Beach in Plymouth. No luck, but was more for fun. Water temp is epic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CoastalWx Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Not sure why they posted at 90 degrees lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Amazing day fishing today out in the rips a few miles off Monomoy towards Nantucket today. Limited out on large Black Sea bass. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Tons of schooling stripers and false albacore around in Watch Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Had some decent fishing on Lake Ontario but the lack of feeder fish is putting a dent in the game fish, we caught a few Kings that were delicious. Going to try deep sea out of York next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 Fall smallmouth pattern is in full swing. Stacking up at the edges of pockets/coves and fattening up on perch. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 97" 510 lb bluefin last Sunday. At a live pogie in Cape cod Bay Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 On 9/6/2020 at 7:11 AM, PowderBeard said: Fall smallmouth pattern is in full swing. Stacking up at the edges of pockets/coves and fattening up on perch. Do you typically use bait casters or spinning reels? I've used spinning my whole life but recently purchased a baitcaster. I like the fact you can use heavier line, cast father, and a more powerful rod I liked. How heavy of a rod do you suggest? I rarely catch anything over 4 lbs. so I feel I purchased something a bit too heavy, thoughts? Below is what I bought https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lew-s-Xfinity-Speed-Spool-Baitcast-Fishing-Rod-and-Reel-Combo/709627790 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Whineminster said: Do you typically use bait casters or spinning reels? I've used spinning my whole life but recently purchased a baitcaster. I like the fact you can use heavier line, cast father, and a more powerful rod I liked. How heavy of a rod do you suggest? I rarely catch anything over 4 lbs. so I feel I purchased something a bit too heavy, thoughts? Below is what I bought https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lew-s-Xfinity-Speed-Spool-Baitcast-Fishing-Rod-and-Reel-Combo/709627790 Depends on what I'm fishing: Drop shot, tubes, small swimbaits, Ned rig, fluke = usually 6/8 lbs flouro leader to braid main on spinning Jig, grass fishing, spinnerbait, jerkbait, topwaters, blade bait = casting with 12-15 lbs flouro+ Lew's is making some quality stuff, especially rods. Most Quantum pro staff left for Lew's. That looks like a 6'10 MH rod in that combo based on the reviews? It really depends on the tip action, if it was a MH with fast tip it is a good all around rod for everything but treble hooked baits (other than swimbaits with big trebles). Treble hooked baits require an extra fast so they do not pull a hole in the mouth and fall out. In terms of fish weight, even a 2 pound fish in heavy grass/wood requires a heavy rod to winch them out. What type of cover are you typically fishing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 hours ago, PowderBeard said: Depends on what I'm fishing: Drop shot, tubes, small swimbaits, Ned rig, fluke = usually 6/8 lbs flouro leader to braid main on spinning Jig, grass fishing, spinnerbait, jerkbait, topwaters, blade bait = casting with 12-15 lbs flouro+ Lew's is making some quality stuff, especially rods. Most Quantum pro staff left for Lew's. That looks like a 6'10 MH rod in that combo based on the reviews? It really depends on the tip action, if it was a MH with fast tip it is a good all around rod for everything but treble hooked baits (other than swimbaits with big trebles). Treble hooked baits require an extra fast so they do not pull a hole in the mouth and fall out. In terms of fish weight, even a 2 pound fish in heavy grass/wood requires a heavy rod to winch them out. What type of cover are you typically fishing? Typically it's just weedy bottoms - milfoil, and the like. Fishing on the edges of Lilly pads. I also like to fish log lay downs and often flooded stumps in one of my local ponds. I'm also up north quite a bit and fish Newfound and Stinson lake - so fishing a lot of rocks and shoals and things like that for smallies, since there's not much weeds up there. It has a fast tip according to the rod. Right now I use almost all medium light action rods w/ 6 or 8 lb test, I like the fact that you can fling worms a mile but the bite feel is not that great and of course the rod bends crazy for the bigger ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Finally found some pike at North Pond (Belgrades) after not seeing one this year. After 3 hours with just a single yellow perch, was drifting and casting my way back toward the landing when a 20-inch fish nailed the spinner 3 feet from the canoe. Dropped anchor there and tossed out the spinner a few times, then decided to try the much bigger (1 oz.) faux-Dardevle. Shortly thereafter got a 25" fish, probably about 4 lb. Fish stew upcoming. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 On 9/22/2020 at 8:08 AM, amarshall said: 97" 510 lb bluefin last Sunday. At a live pogie in Cape cod Bay Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 On 9/25/2020 at 4:36 PM, Ginx snewx said: sick Got another 575 on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 33 minutes ago, amarshall said: Got another 575 on Thursday. Dayboat tuna for porch front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 2 hours ago, amarshall said: Got another 575 on Thursday. So profit for the 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Have a week or so of chilly mornings and the smallmouth get aggressive. If you're fishing and come over one with the boat it will come off the bottom with the shadow of the boat. This was about a 3 lbs smallie. Middle part of the screen is my drop-shot sinking down. Last 3rd of the screen is the fish swimming over to the drop shot and eating it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 8 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: So profit for the 2? The market is really depressed. Japan has lockdowns and the 2 biggest US markets are new york and LA. First fish $5/lb so around $2k second one should be on auction in Japan tonight. Normall these would be $10/lb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 14 minutes ago, amarshall said: The market is really depressed. Japan has lockdowns and the 2 biggest US markets are new york and LA. First fish $5/lb so around $2k second one should be on auction in Japan tonight. Normall these would be $10/lb Ouch. Not the 20 a pound on Wicked Tuna eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 I got 2400 yen per kilo for my fish last night in toyusu. Roughly 10.35 /lb back to the dealer. So take out expenses and profit to the broker $4.50/lb to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share Posted October 3, 2020 On 9/25/2020 at 4:24 PM, tamarack said: Finally found some pike at North Pond (Belgrades) after not seeing one this year. After 3 hours with just a single yellow perch, was drifting and casting my way back toward the landing when a 20-inch fish nailed the spinner 3 feet from the canoe. Dropped anchor there and tossed out the spinner a few times, then decided to try the much bigger (1 oz.) faux-Dardevle. Shortly thereafter got a 25" fish, probably about 4 lb. Fish stew upcoming. Great Pond is loaded with them, some monster four footers too. Should be prime jerkbait time up there for smallies and you'd definitely run into some pike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 1 hour ago, PowderBeard said: Great Pond is loaded with them, some monster four footers too. Should be prime jerkbait time up there for smallies and you'd definitely run into some pike. Maine's record pike was 31+ lb and 47", came thru the ice on North Pond in February thus fat with eggs. Back along I took a 30"/8 lb pike from Great Pond in March and the day before that Great Pond fattie a retired fisheries biologist caught a 33"/11 lb fish a few yards from where mine had come out. Years earlier I'd caught one 33" and 8 lb at North Pond in May - post spawn. 3 lb of eggs in that 11 pounder? No wonder pike populations can skyrocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 Had one nice smallie get off, but caught another one probably 2.5 lbs in Lake Armington up in NH this weekend. They're trying to get those last meals in before winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 @PowderBeardwhat kind of fish finder do you recommend? Tried to buy a garmin but sold out! Looking to spend around $400ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/28/2020 at 1:00 PM, Whineminster said: @PowderBeardwhat kind of fish finder do you recommend? Tried to buy a garmin but sold out! Looking to spend around $400ish The Garmin 73 Echomap with Side imaging is what I have. One on the bow and one at the cockpit. If you wont be fishing much until next year I would just wait for it. I grabbed both mine for $449 during the Cabelas Father's Day Sale. The echomap feature is great along with the preloaded maps in 1' intervals. The Striker is a similar price but does not come with/allow for mapping features. I was a Humminbird/Lowrance fan for years but Garmin's tech is on par/better and the price cannot be beat. Bass are still chewing. Hit about 10 last Friday between 2-4pm. 42/43* water. Any day we get over 50* they move shallow to get warm. Pulled all of them, including two 3.5 and a 4lbs fish out of <2' of water in brush/wood on the jig. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 NH F&G posted this....31lb Lake Trout out of the First CT Lake in Pittsburg. I think this would have been a state record, if not for a 38lber out of Big Diamond pond last winter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 6 hours ago, wx2fish said: NH F&G posted this....31lb Lake Trout out of the First CT Lake in Pittsburg. I think this would have been a state record, if not for a 38lber out of Big Diamond pond last winter. There is no way he originally drilled a hole that big Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Stopped by the lake today not expecting to see much yet, but saw several bass up enjoying the sun in less than a foot of water. Caught one about 2 3/4. Certainly off to an early start this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Heading back to Lake Ontario June 6 for 3 days, different species this time of the year, last year we got King Salmon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 16 hours ago, wx2fish said: Stopped by the lake today not expecting to see much yet, but saw several bass up enjoying the sun in less than a foot of water. Caught one about 2 3/4. Certainly off to an early start this year. I was actually wondering this as I stared out the window yesterday working. Was wondering if fish had moves up yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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