Fletcher Fishing

posted by John on Aug 30

This morning I started at 5:30am from Pamet Harbor. The run out to the race was uneventful, but a USCG bouy tender was anchored in the bay.

Fish were all over wood end, but I only caught bluefish there. I was using 8″ ronzis, black, green and silver. Blues, blues and more blues. I also raised blues with a green and a blue gibbs needlefish.

Bored with the blues, I went north to my spot just south of the rips. The same bass that have been there for weeks were still there. The only thing I could get them to bite was black ronzis. They ignored all surface lures, and all other colors, except black. At 9:30am the bite was over. I could not get blues or bass after then. Back to the dock at 10:30.

Why is it when other boats see the rod bent, they run past 25′ away?

Watch out for the GinnyG, they will ride right over your lines. Sorry, GinnyG, but when you caught my line this morning, I opened the bale and let you have about 200 yards of 15lb braid. I hope it is not too hard to get off.

Final total: 10 15-25 lbs striped bass, and about 15 8-10 lb blues.  I kept a nice 20 pounder for supper. Who ever asked for bluefish did not hit me up early enough, I would be happy to give you all the blues I catch.

Here is a picture. Most of the bass were caught on my little 6′ gold cup rod, shimano sahara reel, 15lb braid w/10′ 20 lb mono leader using 8″ black ronzis.

August 30th

I am going to do it all over again tomorrow morning. The bite seems to die off early.