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Fishing Reports
BOSGTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-Stripers 8/14/05
August 16, 2005
Posted by Capt. Mike Bartlett, Orvis Endorsed Gudie
N. Pembroke, MA 02358 USA
Fax: 781-293-6402
Email: mike@bfastcharters.com
Current Report
BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-
Stripers & Bluefin 8/14/05
Inshore this week, schools
of juvenile herring have
continued to pour out of the
rivers and estuaries in both
the inner and outer harbors
of Boston and can be found
in the coves and inlet on
the South Shore. Where you
find these bait fish, the
stripers are concentrated.
Offshore the attraction is
the sand eel or sand lance.
These bait fish are
attracting striped bass off
the Race and school tuna
between 60 and 100 pounds in
Cape Cod Bay, off Stellwagen
and off Gloucester.
Early this week, Dan Pearce,
formerly from Marshfield now
retired in Virginia, and
John Putnam of Pembroke had
a great morning fishing the
bottom of the ebb through
the flood in Bostons outer
harbor. Here again, the
attraction for the larger
stripers was the extensive
shoals of juvenile herring.
Soft-plastics on spinning
gear and white sliders and
gurglers fished on Orvis
floating Wonderline brought
the best action. Small,
sparsely-dress chartreuse
clousers matched the bait
well fished on 300-400 grain
DepthCharge line. 6 keepers
between 30 and 35 inches can
over the rails and were
promptly released unharmed.
Only a few school sized bass
were in the mix. Late in
the morning, Dan raised and
hooked what we thought to be
just another keeper.
However, after dumping ¾ of
the reel on the first run,
we gave chase with the boat
and netted what proved to be
our largest bass of the
season. This bass bottomed-
out the Boga Grip at 30
pounds and was taped at 42
inches!
By the weekend, the bait
fish numbers were increased
in both the inner and outer-
harbor regions. On Sunday,
Mark Roberts from Waltham,
MA and his friends Bob and
Joe had a banner morning
with stripers coursing
through the schools of
juvenile herring dropping
out with the ebb tide. Most
of the bass were school-size
fish between 24 and 27
inches.
What the bass lacked in
size, they made up in
numbers. Multiple hook-ups
were the rule, most bass
rose well to surface
presentations using soft
plastics on light-spinning
gear and gurglers on the
long road. Sparsely-dressed
chartreuse clousers, fished
on DepthCharge line tricked
a bass on almost every
cast. 40+ bass were hooked
and released in the three
hour feeding forayone of
the best mornings of the
season with bass showing on
the surface.
Capt. Mike Bartlett
B-Fast Charters
www.bfastcharters.com
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