In the Cape Cod Fishwire for Reel-Time.com this week I spent a little more time than usual actually delving into the issue of rotten inshore catches of striped bass off the Boston coast. Basically I note (with statistics) that two of the past 4 years have been some of the worst spawning years since the 1980’s, when the fish almost ceased to exist. Not a good thing… To the North in the Boston Fishwire, I have good reports of tuna…
A busy afternoon – I’ve posted new reports for Boston and for Cape Cod on Reel-Time.com In Boston, we’re still waiting on a real appearance by the bluefish. Very strange, they haven’t been so late that I can recall. It kind of reminds me of the stories the old timers told me back in the 1970’s that they remember not seeing blues in the 30s and 40s north of Cape Cod. School bluefin are showing out at Stellwagen, so the…
Peter Vican caught a 75.4 lb. striped bass off the reef at Block Island over the weekend. Well, it was the Block Island reef, as the story in the Providence Journal says, he normally fishes off Block Island, and in the tradition of real striper fishermen, he apparently wasn’t even willing to admit he was in the Atlantic Ocean. The current world record striped bass on hook and line is 78-pound 8-ounces and was caught by Al McReynolds during a…
Via Jim Forbes…and confirmed via the MercuryNews.com (not that Jim needs confirmation). Sad news indeed, and unfortunately news we’ll be hearing more often. In Massachusetts, from which I write, we’re wringing our hands over the past couple years of poor herring returns. As a striped bass fisherman, I worry about the herring, as they are a primary early season forage species for the stripers. It’s the sportsman’s paradox, that we must often restrict our sport, in order to improve our…