Actually, stripedbass.com the domain name and on-again-off-again website has existed since 1995. What’s new is the modern blog front end — the first of a series of new features I’ll be rolling out in the weeks and months to come as I turn this into an essential site for striped bass lovers. Only 14 years late …
Surfland B&T just posted a fine roundup of Plum Island-area striper reports — lots of fish including some keepers. “White is the color” for lures; clams and worms working from the beachfront. Scroll down the Surfland report for TomS_Nbpt’s first fly-rod keeper of 2009.
| Posted 05/19/2009 11:06 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Sorry for no updates for about a week there – was out of town on business and swamped with stuff. Plate still full for next couple weeks but will try to get some updates out anyway.
| Posted 05/19/2009 10:59 ET | File under: /misc | Link | Discuss () |
Surfland B&T reports some keeper stripers in the mix from the beach at Plum Island and refuge Lot 1. More fish in the Parker River too. They’re IN!
| Posted 05/11/2009 11:30 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Surfland B&T reports a 32″ striper taken on seaworms at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Lot 1 this morning, while Bob Smith got into schoolies again on the Parker River. The stiff NW wind would be pretty much at the backs of anyone on the Plum Island beach today.
p.s. First-hand report on that 32″ fish: RT @Surf_Ratt
| Posted 05/10/2009 13:05 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Newburyport Daily News p.1 story today on the 34″ striper caught in the Parker River yesterday
| Posted 05/09/2009 11:36 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
RT @surfland: 3-4 fish at jetties this morning. bottom of tide. Caught by Bob Smith
| Posted 05/09/2009 09:15 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
RT @Reel_Time: StandardTimes.com – Striper Fishing Breaks Loose – stripers from wareham to westport, the Weweantic, etc. Canal also… http://bit.ly/BY9C8
S-T report also notes some bluefish starting to show up under pogies entering Buzzards Bay/Mount Hope Bay
| Posted 05/08/2009 14:55 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Ron Powers at OnTheWater.com rounds up reports of fresh schoolies: Marshfield, Hanover, Hingham, Charles River Dam, Amelia Earhart Dam, and to the north, Lynn Marsh and the Lead Mills area of Salem Harbor. Also reporting resident fish in the Merrimack near Building 19 in Haverhill. Ron has plenty of lure recommendations too.
| Posted 05/08/2009 09:24 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Much as I admire Blosxom for its minimalist architecture, I’m afraid I’ll have to abandon it for its minimal ongoing development (i.e. none that I can see). I’ll be installing WordPress soon.
| Posted 05/08/2009 09:24 ET | File under: /blogadmin | Link | Discuss () |
RT @Surfland: First Bass Report of the Season! Bob Smith caught a 34″ Striper in the Parker River using a Storm Shad at the top of the tide today about 11
My comment: 34″, very impressive for start of the season
| Posted 05/07/2009 14:09 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Feature story atop p.1 today’s Newburyport Daily News. Story says without citing sources that small schoolies were caught as early as two weeks ago in Gloucester and Rockport. Quotes Mike of Surfland saying he hasn’t caught anything off Plum Island as of yesterday.
With sidebar on striped bass migration and population fluctuations over the years
| Posted 05/06/2009 14:03 ET | File under: /general | Link | Discuss () |
Comments (the Discuss links) don’t work yet. Various other plugins don’t work yet, such as the one that would let me post an update to an earlier post without bumping it to the top as I keep doing with this one. I haven’t been able to integrate CSS yet so the look and feel is ugly. The site also doesn’t have a Mission Statement, Business Plan or anything else indicating what it wants to be when it grows up (SEO? BWAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAA) but in the meantime I’m tracking stripers as they move into Massachusetts this spring. As I come across other good stuff about striped bass I’ll link to it. Who knows, maybe I’ll even have something interesting of my own to say before too long.
So thanks for visiting and keep coming back while I hack my way through Blosxom (which I like, even as it drives me beserk sometimes) and otherwise differentiate stripedbass.com from the many other fishing-related sites out there. For instance, there are plenty of active forums/discussion groups about fishing out there; no need to reinvent that wheel here (nor to try to take traffic from those well established boards, but rather to help drive traffic TO them). But if your focus is on striped bass is there one single site where you can get timely links and original reporting all in one spot? This may be that place. Sooner or later. Stay tuned and tight lines.
| Posted 05/06/2009 11:48 ET | File under: /blogadmin | Link | Discuss () |
Not a Mass. fish but still worthy of note, one of the largest stripers on record in the Hudson River. RT @Reel_Time http://bit.ly/vNmMa. Caught Friday night on a boat between Croton Point and the Tappan Zee Bridge. (Not far from yours truly’s old stomping grounds, actually)
| Posted 05/06/2009 10:06 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
RT @Reel_Time: First (reliable) report of fresh fish north of Cape Cod – from Sandwich http://bit.ly/3w18lb
meanwhile RT @BostonFishstix: Prospecting for bass in Boston on Thursday.
| Posted 05/06/2009 08:31 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
Crane Beach fishing report — small bait in the river as of Sunday, but no stripers yet
| Posted 05/05/2009 21:04 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
RT @surfland: Working hard to find the first Striper. Fishing Tuff Cores, Charlie Graves to no avail. New vintage pic. http://www.surflandbt.com/reports/
| Posted 05/05/2009 13:00 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
See this 2005 thread at surfcaster.com (starting with post 10), a series of reports over the season from Surfland B&T.
| Posted 05/04/2009 21:28 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |
RT Reel_Time: From Cross Rip Outfitters on Nantucket: Good News! Fish were caught over the weekend. Miacomet and Hummock were the spots.
RT Reel_Time: Cape cod South side stripers are in hard…BBAy – figure we here of fresh fish in Salem Ma next weekend as the first fish arrive.
| Posted 05/04/2009 13:46 ET | File under: /fishreports | Link | Discuss () |