Summer flounder, black sea bass, cod and scup. The fluke and black sea bass bites off Newport and the Beavertail-Jamestown area were good last week if you could fish around rough sea conditions. A delicious black sea bass fell for the same jig while staging on the shelf close to the edge of the riprap stone bank.” Jeff Smith reports on the Rhode Island Saltwater Anglers Association blog: “Hunted for albies from Beavertail to Scarborough on Sunday. Headed back up toward Narragansett Bay and, when the tide finally started to move, we got some fish boils west of Whale Rock. They were mostly blues with a few stripers mixed in. Some schools of albies, too, but they were not around long. I managed to hook up with one albie, but lost him at the boat. Headed back up the West Passage and around 10:30 a.m., the water out in front of Quonset started to boil with tons of birds and surface action all around. Turns out to be mostly blues with a few bass. The largest-sized blues I have seen in the Bay in quite some time. We were throwing a few plugs and I caught most everything on a green epoxy jig.” "East End" Eddie Doherty reported: “Mostly smaller stripers are keying in on the abundant bait in the Cape Cod Canal. I was lucky enough to fool a 42-inch on the ebb with a white Hurley Canal Killer just after slack near the Bourne Bridge. We had similar results in the East Passage on Monday just north of Gould Island. The area between Quonset, Hope Island and Jamestown exploded with the largest schools of bluefish we have seen in the Bay for some time. On a charter last Sunday, we hooked up with 14 bluefish with striped bass mixed in on the surface. Striped bass, bluefish and false albacore. Keep the caught and cleaned fish in an ice and saltwater brine solution in a cooler for the remainder of your trip. Take care of the fish once it is on board it is hard to unhook a fish, clean what it coughs up and wash away the blood while others are fishing. I find that no more than two, possibly three experienced anglers, can be casting at the same time. This is to avoid the casting angler from hooking others. ◘Work the edges of schools when they surface don’t drive through a school or right up on top of it or you will spook them and they will go down.īe respectful of others making room from them when working a school of fish on the surface.īe safe try not to get too caught up in the excitement. (Twenty-pound fluorocarbon leaders for false albacore, bonito and school bass as these rigs are used to target these species, too.) Croix Mojo light/medium and heavy inshore spinning rods ready, paired with Shimano Stella 4000 reels. The reels are spooled with 20-pound braid and wire leaders. ◘My personal favorite to target bluefish is light tackle. ◘Be careful - they have sharp teeth that can take your finger off. ◘Use wire leaders when fishing for blues to avoid cutoffs. Here are some tips for fishing bluefish blitzes: Lures such as Kastmaster, Deadly Dick and Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnows worked well. ![]() The lures of choice were small shiny lures that mimic this bait and flash in the water. The fish were in the mid- to lower portion of the East and West Passages of Narragansett Bay, north and south of Gould and Hope islands, off Quonset, Jamestown and many other places.Īll the fish were chasing good size peanut bunger (immature Atlantic Menhaden). They were coughing them up when brought on deck. Bluefish eat 2½ times their weight every day, so it seems like they never stop feeding. Most of the bluefish were caught on the surface during blitzes, or feeding frenzies, when fish push and trap bait close to shore or up on the surface where the bait has nowhere else to go. One has to wonder if this is a sign that the stock is rebounding. ![]() This week, we caught fish in schools from 18 inches to 30 inches. The updated stock assessment incorporated data through 2019. (This is for skipjacks, too, which are immature bluefish.) The three-fish limit was imposed as the 2021 stock assessment conducted by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center indicated bluefish are overfished, but were not experiencing overfishing in 2019. The coastwide regulation for bluefish is three fish/person/day. More: Fishing Report: Ocean sediment part of the fight against climate change More: Fishing Report: Scout's project puts fishing line in its place Bluefish provide a great fight for anglers and, if treated properly after catching them, they make for good table fare. Anglers have been treated recently to an abundance of bluefish of all sizes.
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