Weekend Update

This past weekend was filled with surface feeding bass, blues and tons of bait! Like clock work, each day produced fish via topwater and subsurface at the same times and locations. While most of the stripers were on the school size, there were several in the 26-34 inch range.   Larger fish were marked  on the screen as you can see in the photo below.  Outgoing tides seem to spark the feeds in 3 specific locations that we spent time.  Our lure of choice was small Hogy lures in amber and black/silver. It was interesting that most of the bait was not even close to the Hogy but still worked wonders. We did use some topwater lures, and even did get some takers but nowhere near the hits that the subsurface stuff did.
After finally marking the bigger fish down deep, we even picked up a bass on live pogie (bunker) mid day.
The forecast for this week: with the weather keeping cool, the bass will be moving further north. Reports from NJ states that the bass have left the bays a week ago and the larger fish are going to show up over the next two weeks. As those fish move north, they will be feeding on the larger baits and the topwater stuff may slow down a little except near the shorelines.  We will continue to use flies to catch those fish feeding on the sand eels but will also use live and cut bait to fish those slobs coming to Rhode Island for the season.  There are some big blues cruising around so be prepared to switch techniques when they are around your baits. Be prepared to hear some larger fish being caught in CT and Southern RI this week. With luck, they will swim fast to the upper bay!