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Fishing Reports
Boston Harbor & South Shore-Stripers 6/28/2007
June 28, 2007
Posted by Capt. Mike Bartlett/ B-Fast Charters
Pembroke, MA 02358 United States
Fax: 781-293-6402
Email: mike@bfastcharters.com
Current Report
BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-
Stripers 6/28/2007
The inner-harbor bays are
inundated with adult
silversides. Regardless of
where you choose to fish be
it Hingham, Quincy or
Boston, swirling stripers
are pushing this bait fish
to the surface, attracting
the birds and of course the
fly fishers. Right now, 20-
60 fish mornings are
common. However, what is
missing are the larger
bass. Typically these fish
move into our area by mid-
June. While the surface
action if awesome for school
bass, everyone in the harbor
is finding few big bass to
date. One reason is the
amount of bait on Stellwagen
and on the shoals of the
Cape. The report from
Billingsgate is that
conventional trolling, off
the edge of the shoals, is
producing well for big bass
while the shoal water,
loaded with sand eels and
silversides, is producing
few big fish.
On Saturday, long-time
client Roger Thuot of
Petersham, MA toughed-out
the botched weather forecast
by mid-morning we were
hiding in the lee of the
islands from the 30 knot
winds. Nevertheless, the
early morning outgoing tide
in Quincy bay fished well
with numbers of bass between
20 and 26 inches feeding on
silversides. Due to the
wind, Roger opted to fish
light-tackle using 3/8 oz
jig-heads and soft-
plastics. His second fish
was a 33 inch keeper bassa
surprise fish for current
circumstances. Last year at
this time, Rogers best bass
was a fat, 39 inch, 21 pound
linesiderhopefully they
will reach Boston in numbers
soon.
On Sunday both the B-Fast
and the Bay-Fly fished the
harbor finding bass surface
feeding in Quincy and
Bostons inner-harbor. With
the wind down some what,
B.J. Morgan of Medford on
the Bay Fly did well with
the T-3 fishing chartreuse
Half & Halfs on 400 grain
DepthCharge line.good
silverside attractor
patters. Light-spinning
gear was equally effective
using Fin-S soft-plastics on
jug-heads and Texas-rigged
soft-plastic on the
surface. Both boat hooked
and released 20-30 school
bass with none over 27
inches.
By mid-week with its SW
summer wind pattern, calm
seas and raging heat-wave,
we were able to fish both
the inner-harbor bays and
the outer harbor ledges and
promontories of Boston and
Minots ledge on the South
Shore. Dean Romano of
Framingham, MA had a banner
day releasing 20+ bass using
2/0 chartreuse Half & Halfs
and keeping 2 small blues
for the tablethe blues were
in the inner-harbor; rarely
in our area in June.
Strakelys foam-head poppers
and Gartsides gurglers also
produced well fished on
floating Wonderline. At
mid-morning, we moved to
fish structure on the ledges
of the outer harbor and
South Shore on Minots
ledge. Dean did well
fishing the fishing the
pocket water and wash of the
rock, casting both forward
and back casting where the
wind dictated, and he was
rewarded with another 10+
stripers on the flyhere
again no keeper bass.
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