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August 19th – Top-water action picking up!
August 19th, 2010 | 
Author: Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Report Duxbury Plymouth Massachusetts
www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838
August 19th
TODAY: Top-Water Action continues…
A quick report for today. I left the camera at home (!). Ran out for a short trip this morning at 6:30am. Sun was way to high for me – I’m usually on the bay a half-hour before it rises. But fish were still here. Several very small pods of striped bass in the bay, working under the birds. First two casts of the morning yielded two fish: a 27″ and a 30″ incher. We picked up several more shorts, but the goal this morning was to Re-Con the bay and see where the fish were and what they were doing for upcoming charters. I think it is going to just get better and better right into the fall. Lots of bait around – mumachogs, green crabs, immature blues, butterfish, hickory shad, and a few others I am not sure what they are. “Rainbait” is showing in the bay and reports from other anglers of birds and top-water from Duxbury, Plymouth, Kingston and up towards Scituate and down towards the canal continue to pour in. All good news… Small blues are in the bay with one or two big ones mixed in. Bass in the bay are all sizes – except the twinkies. We have not seen tiny bass in the bay at all this season. Everything has been in the mid-twenty inches up through the whoppers’ in the thirty-pound class. A ton of stripers in the mid-teens to low twenty pound range.
Capt. David Bitters
(781) 934-2838
Fishing the Massachusetts Coast and South Shore Waters 
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JULY 21 – Major Worm Hatch In Bay, Dense Fog, 12 Bass, 2 Keepers
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report for Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21
TODAY: Pea Soup Fog, Major Worm Hatch, 12 Bass, 2 Keepers
on board this morning I had first-time client, Larry Richmond of Sullivan & McLaughlin, and his grandson, Colton. Today was Colton’s birthday and he got his first introduction to using light tackle spinning gear and did great! At first light, a stunning sunrise came up over the bay as we headed to our first spot of the morning. We fished the half-tide incoming at 5:15am and boated two bass in two drifts over structure in Plymouth bay. Our third drift yielded nothing, so we moved down into Kingston Bay. Birds working!!! An amazing sight for July. Pea soup socked us in and we had to navigate by compass for several hours. We boated several fish and Colton boated his first keeper striper on light tackle using a 4″ inch rubber crank bait. We made numerous drifts through the fog and fish and then the bite shut down.
Off to fish Duxbury Bay next. We were cruising along, heading for Powder Point Bridge to try for some blues. Yesterday, a big blue was boated there and spotty blues have been around. As we headed down the channel, I looked out over the dead-calm bay and suddenly, hit the brakes. What did I just see…??? We drifted for a few minutes and I saw it again… It looked like a mirage in the fog, but black fins, lots of black fins, would rise up and got back down about a hundred or so yards away. I went up current and set a drift. We came right over them and then we saw more and more of them… Striped Bass – On A Major Worm Hatch! Hundreds of bass… We estimated the school to have at least 500 bass in it, all tailing and fining on the surface as they sipped tiny worms like trout. I’ve seen many worm hatches in the bay over the years, but this was one of the best and all the fish looked big! But as often happens in a worm hatch, they would take nothing in my tackle box. We went through the box hoping to find a lure that would trigger them to strike but it was hopeless. I decided to put out some cut bait on the bait runners “just to see…” Bingo! Out of 500 bass, we got three decent runs and boated two more striped bass, including another fine keeper brought in by Larry.
As the fog began to lift and the bright sunshine came through, the high tide began to flow back out and the worm hatch started to shut down. We called it a great morning. It was an amazing sight to be in the middle of 500 bass all feeding on the worm hatch, even though they wouldn’t touch anything we offered them, other than chunks of mackerel. The school of fish, before they began to break up, had to be at least four hundred yards across…!
That’s the word for today, July 21. Back out again in the morning to “see what we can see.” Every day is different and no two tides are the same…
Capt. David Bitters
BAYMEN Charters, Duxbury
(781) 934-2838