I fished the last two evenings at various marks in SoCo and enjoyed….not a touch. Well, that’s not entirely true. I felt every weed that brushed against my three fly team. Last night I accidentally snagged a few small menhaden. But nothing living that could be measured in pounds came in contact with my fly.
I fished inside a breachway in moving water, incoming and outgoing; in a pond area of an inflow; off a jetty; and from the beach. Not even a courtesy tap. I saw and heard a few stripers, but they were small and their presence fleeting, and I never really had a good shot at a target. Bait, on the other hand — wow! Masses of bait everywhere. Silversides, menhaden, and mullet in mother lode Vegas jackpot numbers everywhere. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such immense, dark clouds of menhaden.
The fighting is rounds. This was round one.
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Heard there were acres of bass off of Naps feeding on peanuts
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The bass were certainly somewhere. Just not where I was fishing.
The same story is happening on the Outer Cape . The Bass are gone. The only bright spot is an occasional Albie blitz. I think the season is done . Bill
Bill, I’m hoping that it’s just getting started. Planning for the rest of September…
I guess we where in the same boat, well not literally but I was on my boat. We covered Stonington to PT Judith and back and not a shot at the Big three.
Yes tons of bait mostly peanuts.
It has to get better soon🥴
Best of luck on your next outing…and me on mine. Yes, there are bass that will be caught. 🙂
hi steve, i enjoy your reports, i have experienced similar situations . i fished this past weekend, masphee, and boston, 10 hours on the boat, 2 schoolies. Tons of bait. if i was live lining pogies i would have increased my odds , but i prefer to fly fish. i have been fly fishing for 50 years, i have seen the demise of our cherished resouce diminish exponentially over the years to the point that the start of the fall run looks as bleak as ever. i even have a commercial friend who has finally admitted that the comm. harvest has to stop. hopefully marine management will smarten up, however the damage is done. keep up the good work, your reports are good documents of proof. thanks ,Paul
Thanks for reading and responding, Paul. I knew I was likely in for a tough time Tuesday night when I visited an incredible popular mark and there was….no one there. Word gets out about bites, hot or cold. There are some bass to found — I know a couple surfcasters in CT who scored some big bass earlier this week — but I haven’t found them. Yet. 🙂
Wild guess , do you think all the fresh water from Ida sent a message to the bass that it’s time to leave? Bill
Are you talking about at the Cape? I really am not in a position to offer an intelligent guess about that. If you held my feet to the fire I’d say probably not….
Yes , the Cape.we had our club cookout today and very few bass were caught but several Albies
were . We’ll see in a couple of weeks if the bass bounce back. We got 5 inches of rain which could have effected the bite. Bill
Let us know how she goes…