PlumFishing Posted August 19, 2017 Report Share Posted August 19, 2017 (edited) Went on the river for ~4 hours, no weed to speak of. Got a dozen or so micros on worms and chunk macks. Tried throwing sp's but no dice. Also saw a sturgeon breach about 20 yards from the bank. Edited August 19, 2017 by PlumFishing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NHAngler Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) Weeds? Just look at them all! ha ha. ..OK, maybe they are not weeds. Got a 1/2 dozen keepers out of this but cannot believe how hard it is to catch them with all this bait around. Edited August 20, 2017 by NHAngler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joppa Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 1 hour ago, NHAngler said: Weeds? Just look at them all! ha ha. ..OK, maybe they are not weeds. Got a 1/2 dozen keepers out of this but cannot believe how hard it is to catch them with all this bait around. Pogies......you would think at least blue fish would be going nuts on them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinbill Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 I fished the mouth of an estuary this morning from shore with what has become the usual results - lots of micro bass, but nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_helmet Posted August 20, 2017 Report Share Posted August 20, 2017 (edited) Got out a little before dawn on a beach close to Boston Saturday morning. Absolutely and totally dead. At least there wasn't much weed in the water. Decided to head to canal for sunrise today (Sunday) instead. Edited August 20, 2017 by dark_helmet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joppa Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 6 hours ago, dark_helmet said: Got out a little before dawn on a beach close to Boston Saturday morning. Absolutely and totally dead. At least there wasn't much weed in the water. Decided to head to canal for sunrise today (Sunday) instead. you must of had a good morning then....seen pics from a lot people from there this morning, crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_helmet Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 I definitely felt like I made the right decision it was either northshore again or the canal, and I was a bit nervous that it might not be worth waking up at 3:30 to make it down. Wish I could show up late to work Monday and Tuesday though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytara7 Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Fished the Merrimack for 5 and a half caught 1 dink on a clam Saturday.Going out tomorrow. [sIGPIC]Goal to catch my first 30 on a plug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kclee113 Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 I had nothing going on yesterday afternoon, so even though the conditions were all wrong I headed out anyway. Fished the bottom of the tide from a rocky beach and managed a 30" along with 3 low 20" fish for about an hour of fishing. Not bad for daytime in Mid-August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheBassMan Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Did alright this morning, picked up a half dozen decent schoolies on fly with a subkeeper to top it off. Sightfished them all in the wash in broad daylight. Had many swipes from fish in the mid 30s, but they were wary. Just when I arrived before first light, my spot had taken by a few pairs of eyes in the dark. I approached cautiously but as sunrise neared I saw that they happened to be some young raccoons munching on crabs from the tidepools exposed by some astronomically low tides. I fed them some crabs and they decided to hang around. While looking for some crabs for them I stumbled upon a couple of these fish near the water's edge. I found them in the rocks beneath bubble weed. One was around 4 inches long, the other around 3. Dark-orange-reddish-brown in color, slightly red-spotted. Blends in with the weeds perfectly. Red eyes. No exceptionally large teeth as far as I could see. Around two dozen very small dorsal spines. Caudal fin connects to dorsal and anal fins similarly as an eel. Mucus is also more similar to that of an eel than a typical fish; difficult to remove, thickens as you try to remove it. These fish were very flexible and tried to burrow back into the rocks. First thoughts: juvenile moray (don't have morays in MA?), juvenile cusk (color and proportions are off), juvenile wolf fish (proportions off, shape different). A suggestion I received was juvenile ocean pout and that seems to be the most likely candidate, although I haven't heard of them off our coast. Any ideas? Both were lightly handled and promptly released. I apologize in advance about it being pic-heavy, but it's hard to see all of the features in one photo. Thanks in advance, enjoy today's solar show, and tight lines! Serious pullage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikez2 Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 Rock gunnel aka butterfish aka conger eel (not the real one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFThunter Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 22 minutes ago, mikez2 said: Rock gunnel aka butterfish aka conger eel (not the real one) You got it We used to catch them in our eel traps every late summer along with juvenile seabass- even though we're about 5 miles from the ocean up in an estuary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheBassMan Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 4 hours ago, mikez2 said: Rock gunnel aka butterfish aka conger eel (not the real one) Thank you very much! I had a gut feeling it was going to be some kind of small oddball I haven't heard of and not a juvenile cusk or eel pout. Learning something new every day, on the water and off. Serious pullage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytara7 Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 Big boat went down "bad starter" took the lil boat out on the M.R. and feed crabs. going out 2morrow. [sIGPIC]Goal to catch my first 30 on a plug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan1 Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 Fished a couple live mackeral from my kayak around salem harbor this morning, lots of hits but I guess nothing big enough to swallow it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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