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Northeast Saltwater Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated September 12, 2009
By Brandon White Published: September 12, 2009  Print  Email Striped Bass, Bluefish, Ablies and Bonita (aka Bones) fishing is busting loose in the Northeast! The last few days there has been some bad weather which has kept anglers off the water, but before that it’s been pretty wide open for light tackle and fly anglers. Full details in the reports... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Saltwater Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated August 23, 2009 By Brandon White Published: August 23, 2009 Print Email Fishing along the northeast coast this week is spotty for striped bass, but there are plenty of bluefish reported if you are looking for a good pull on your fly rod along with some good reports of bonita falling for a fly. There are also some strong reports of bluefin being caught on light tackle and the fly rod, if you hook one, hold on! Check the full fishing reports for details on what is going on from New Jersey to Maine... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Saltwater Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated August 16, 2009 By Brandon White Published: August 16, 2009 Print Email Northeast reports are a little thin this week, but we did get some guides checking in. The big news is that the Bones arrived in and around Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The Albies should not be too far behind. Oh yea, bluefin have been landed on the fly. The picture says it all on that front. Even with the elevated water temperatures there are still plenty of striped bass around if you are willing to spend the time looking. When you hit then you can hit the jackpot. Also around in good numbers are decent blues to give you a good pull on your fly rod or light tackle... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Saltwater Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated August 8, 2009 By Brandon White Published: August 9, 2009 Print Email August is usually a slow month in the northeast. It does not mean there are not stripers or blues around, but it seems the fish take a bit of a vacation. But, that is not always the case as evidenced by Capt. Brendan McCarthy’s monster striper last week and this week follows that rule just a little further up the coast. The spotlight this week is on Maine striped bass fishing where Capt. Eric Wallace reports that the fishing in shallow water has been fantastic...August also usually marks the arrival of the bonita and albies in and around the Nantucket area and sure enough as clock work some reports are coming in that they arrived. Another surprise this week is... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated August 1, 2009 By Brandon White Published: August 2, 2009 Print Email Some say there are not as many big striped bass around as there used to be along the East Coast, I agree wholeheartedly with that, but that does not mean there are still not a few monster striped bass swimming around along the coast. Capt. Brendan McCarthy proved that this past week with a nice monster taken in Montauk. Plenty of hot other striper action reported in the northeast this week all the way up to Maine... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated July 24, 2009 By Brandon White Published: July 24, 2009 Print Email Can you say 73 pound striped bass? Hot reports in from light tackle and fly anglers from New Jersey all the way up to Maine where it appears the striper fishing has been showing signs of striper fishing that has not been seen in many years, and yea a report of a 73lb striper. Read more in the report... Read More...View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated November 12, 2008 By Capt. John McMurray Published: November 12, 2008 Print EmailWRAPPING IT ALL UP  I never really understood the majority of anglers’ behavior this time of the year. While the fishing gets better, folks begin to drop out. Boats are being shrink-wrapped, and gear is being stowed while the peanut-bunker amass and the feeding activity increases. I suppose there is the “freezing-your-arse-off” factor, which indeed can make things less fun, particularly when it’s windy. But there are still those gem days where the wind sits down, the water is glass and the air temp stays in the high 50’s. And those are the primo striped bass days. The ones where you can watch fish chasing down menhaden on the surface and where one can stick 20-plus pound bass with some frequency on topwaters… Yeah man, I live for those days. Of course, as an angler, it’s always a good thing to have less folks on the water. Despite increasing fuel prices and an ailing economy, the boat traffic was as bad as it’s ever been this year. Thus, savoring the late fall days and the drastically reduced crowds certainly adds to... Read More... View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated October 29, 2008 By Capt. John McMurray Published: October 28, 2008 Print EmailGEOGRAPHICAL STRIPED BASS ABUNDANCE  Large concentrations of bass in some areas doesn’t necessarily equate to a healthy stockMan, there were some crazy striped bass blitzes in Montauk this year. The kind that make you just drop your rod and say “Holy *@$%!”. Truly extraordinary stuff. Understandably, such blitzes might make one believe that striped bass are extremely abundant. Unfortunately that is not the case. In other regions, particularly the Northeast, there are widespread complaints about the lack of quality stripers. In Maine, guides are going out of business because of the very real lack of what was once a thriving fishery. As guides like Capt. Dave Pecci and Capt. Doug Jowett point out, it’s not due to the lack of forage as there seems to be abundant Read More... View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated October 20, 2008 By Capt. John McMurray Published: October 19, 2008 Print EmailWHAT THE “H” AM I DOING!  Wow… I’m sitting here trying to prepare for my first Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting. You wouldn’t believe the amount of reading. And it’s definitely not easy reading. I mean, I’ll get through a few pages and realize I have no idea what I just read. Sure, it’s not rocket science. It’s probably a bit more complicated. Still, it’s doable as I’m finding myself rereading and finally getting most of this stuff. But, I’m about half-way though 500 pages and the meeting starts tomorrow! And I’ve been fishing hard every single morning, and working the day job during the afternoons, so to say I’m spent is an understatement. Fishing Reports Indeed the fall run is now in full swing. In Jersey, there are scattered reports of albies but as far as I know it hasn’t been a great run this year. Plenty of bluefish around and some good bass blitzes off the coast this week. Still some good bluefin fishing offshore, but it’s all on the troll now. In the New York Bight, the week started out with some crazy bass blitz action, but has since turned into bluefish. The albies are still around but not it really great numbers. Nothing like last week. Still, we’re getting a few. Some isolated bluefish action in Read More... View Comments (0) Northeast Fishing Reports: NY, NJ, RI, MASS, CT, MA and NH Fishing Reports: Updated October 6, 2008 By Capt. John McMurray Published: October 6, 2008 Print EmailALBIES ACROSS THE BOARD!, BUT MORE FOOLISHNESS WITH BASS…  Wow… What a week! Was in Montauk for the first part of it. Sick bass blitzes and false albacore pretty much everywhere. And then I got back home to Lower New York Harbor, dropped the boat back in the water, and I’m into solid albies and bass again. Awesome! A pretty darn good week despite the early rain and wind. I’m stoked! Yet, while I hate to bring it up, there are more shenanigans going on with bass. Maryland has recently proposed extending their recreational fishing season for an additional 15 days through to December 31. Currently the regulations have a recreational season closure of December 15. If you are thinking that this is not such a big deal, you are right. The truth is that the impact will probably be relatively minor. However, when all of the minor impacts of this proposal, Delaware and Pennsylvania’s proposals etc. are added up, fishing mortality will undoubtedly go up as well. If you read this report regularly, you know that the new stock assessment review resulted in a lower fishing mortality threshold for corrective action. That means any increase in mortality will likely... Read More... View Comments (0)
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