2023 Herring

[sikcrodbends]

Getting to be about that time it seems. Few reports trickling in…

[HugeDinghy]

The providence river was going buck nutty yesterday. Birds, swirls.. the whole 9. I’ll stop at my local run on the way home. It’s a very consistent first to second week of April push, with scouts two weeks prior.  

[bdowning]

Not RI, but the herring commission in Middleboro recently reported a few scout herring at that run. Taunton River watershed.

[HugeDinghy]

I think the dredging project has stirred up enough life to have the birds etc working pretty much all winter. It’s been very noticeable. 

[NewEngBoy011]

Agreed, every morning driving to work over the bridge this winter has been nutty with bird action, last week there were thick concentrations of fluttering/diving gulls

[HugeDinghy]

Yup. I’ve seen swirls and splashes too. Holdovers and maybe white perch? 

[HugeDinghy]

Checked my run again. Nothing. No osprey yet either. They are pretty consistent showing up two days after I see the first herring. 

[pittedsopitted]

 

2 hours ago, HugeDinghy said:

Checked my run again. Nothing. No osprey yet either. They are pretty consistent showing up two days after I see the first herring. 

Seen all sorts of life coming back to my local run. Mostly worms, crabs, and birds. No scouts yet but it feels like its only a matter of time. 

[clammer]

Don,t say white perch .

 

it should be a very interesting spring .......that bait your seeing has been up there all winter ....per diggers  from Bullocks Cove .. one of the snagged  one the other day >>> peanut bunker  ... we saw some at Hemingways   in Dec  . but that,s normal now <><>

[HugeDinghy]

North of bullocks…

[clammer]

yep  all the way & around the corner to  Pawt ><>

[HugeDinghy]

Few scouts in my run just now. Egrets lined up, no osprey. 

[cow tamer]

They're waiting on the forsythia to bloom.

[pittedsopitted]

Went out to a local run this afternoon. No signs of herring yet but the birds are ready if they come with the tide.

Came home to find a school of silversides…only a matter of time.

[Kooky]

Silversides have shown up at some other locations also, things are moving.