I got out on the refuge beach on the evening of Thurs 10/16 with just one bite to show for my efforts after dunking worms and casting plugs and jigs for a few hours. I was disappointed as the conditions seemed right — close to a new moon, dusk into early nighttime, dropping temps and [...]
Lamentably I’m a more than a week late with this but Surfland B&T reports weighing their first 50+ lb striper since 2007.
Fished on neighbor’s boat today out of Newburyport at high tide and through half the ebb. No problem catching macks for bait off Hampton (no sign of bluefish). We caught two stripers of around 24-26″ and had several other hits. I also jigged up two small cod off the bottom while we were fishing for [...]
For sake of completeness, below are all the posts from the brief initial incarnation of the stripedbass.com blog earlier this year.
Tue, 19 May 2009
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. [...]