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Fishing Reports
Boston Harbor & South Shore-Stripers 7/9//2007
July 15, 2007
Posted by Capt. Mike Bartlett/ B-Fast Charters
N. Pembroke, MA 02358 USA
Fax: 781-293-6402
Email: mike@bfastcharters.com
Current Report
BOSTON HARBOR & SOUTH SHORE-
Stripers 7/9/2007
More and more keeper bass
are working their way into
skinny-water of the inner-
harbor bays and coves
producing good top-water
action. Very-little
blitzing or bird activity
was evident over the
weekend. However, bass
could be seen swirling fins
& tails on the surface over
structure at first-light and
at high-slack tide
presenting casting targets
for anglers. Reports from
Stellwagen are that the bass
are still there in good
numbers as they are hitting
the spreader-bars trolled
for school tuna.
Saturdays trip was
spearheaded by Ken Kakol of
Plainfield, NJ who I met at
the Sportsmens show in
Edison, N J. Ken opted to
book the trip for brother-in-
law Mark, nephew Adam and
niece, Madison of
Winchester, MA. These
athletic young anglers
proved to be more that up to
the task of casting to
stripers swirling on the
surface. Young Adam struck
first doing battle with a
33, 14# keeper that was
kept for the grill. Not to
be out-done, Dad hooked the
best bass of the day; a 37,
20# keeper. The anglers
rose a number of other bass,
however the stripers were
very fussy, and we hooked
only few school bass.
Moving to the upper-reaches
of Quincy to end the day on
the ebbing tide, Young Adam
hooked two small blues in
short order, once again on
soft-plastics fished on the
surface. It appears that
Adam is hooked on fishing
since Mark just booked a
return trip in August.
Dean Scontras and his Dad of
Boston were greeted to flat-
calm seas on Sunday
morning. These experienced
striper fisherman spend much
of their time on the water
off Portland, Maine. They,
too, have found that the
stripers are arriving late
up north, so they opted to
try their luck in their back-
yard, Boston harbor.
Bunches of school bass were
showing on the slick-surface
at first light. Surface
presentations produced the
best action and good numbers
of school bass to 24 at the
height of the tide and the
first two hours of the ebb.
Dean rose and hooked a 32,
12# keeper bass that was
revived and released. The
pocket-water of rocks off
Minots ledge produced a
number of school bass for
the anglers on return to
Cohasset.
Capt. Mike Bartlett
B-Fast Charters
www.bfastcharters.com
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