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30 Fish, 11 Keepers…!!!

May 11th, 2012 | Author:

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The bay was lit up this morning with lots of top-water and structure action. On board, I had repeat client, Gary Condon & Co. , President/CEO,Affordable Closet Systems. Gary has been fishing with me for many years and we always have a great time. Today was his first trip of the season and we slammed them on the bay!

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Beautiful sunrise and tons of birds working schools of striped bass. We started the morning with light tackle, including rubber crank baits, 9” inch sluggos, and top-water poppers with with white saddle hackle tails.k Everything we threw out, the fish hit hard. From there, we went to a spot where the bass lay on the bottom and “crab” for about three weeks a year. There is very little seaweed early in the season, and we an fish our rubber crank baits right on the bottom in the middle of the crabs that the stripers are feeding on. They were there again today and we picked up several nice fish.

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After top-water fishing and crabbing, we ran off shore and jigged up a bunch of Atlantic Mackerel. We set one, long drift in gusty 20-35 knots winds, and had all the mack we could use. We ran back inside and hit our first spot, in the Kingston Channel. Fifteen minutes later, not a single hit…! Started for spot #2 in Duxbury when I passed another little guzzle I have had some luck fishing on the top of the tide. But it was now dead-low tide and a tough time to entice any fish. I decided to do one drift just to check on it. We never left. Drift after drift, big stripers slammed out live mackerel without fail. We even drifted some whole dead macks and they still got slammed! It was dead low tide, the slowest time to fish, but the bass were hungry and did not care about the tide today.

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We ended the morning with 30 striped bass boated, including 11 keepers. We dropped maybe half as many, including a big, big fish that slammed a red/white popper with white saddle hackle tail. The fish some how broke through a 20lb leader. If you catch a 40+ inch striped bass with a red/white popper in it’s jaw, please contact. I’d like to get a picture of that fish and get my popper back…!

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Stay posted: the season is just getting going.

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Capt. David Bitters, The BAYMEN

Baymen Guide Service, Inc. (781) 934-2838 baymencharters@gmail.com web: www.baymencharters.com

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Capt. Dave Bitters of The Baymen, Photographed by Noah Lydiard

April 30th, 2012 | Author:

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Capt. David Bitters of The Baymen, fly casting to striped bass on Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts.

Photos by: Noah Lydiard

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28 Fish Today!

April 9th, 2012 | Author:

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We fished in 20+ knots of wind today on a freshwater pond. It was really cranking out there. But the fish did not seem to mind! We boated 28 for 39 hits, and had a great day on the water on Massachusetts South Shore. If you’d like to fish with us in the fresh or salt this season, give us a call or shoot us an e-mail (781) 934-2838 baymencharters@gmail.com

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Capt. David Bitters, The Baymen

Baymen Guide Service, Inc. (781) 934-2838 www.baymencharters.com  Facebook: Baymen Guide Service, Inc. Baymen Charters

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Freshwater Trip

April 4th, 2012 | Author:

Scouted out four ponds today. Slow fishing, beautiful places. Dropped two, landed two on hard body crank baits. Just lovely on the water.

 

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Capt. Dave, The Baymen

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Guided Fresh & Saltwater Fishing on the Massachusetts Coast!

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FRESHWATER CHARTERS

March 28th, 2012 | Author:

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Here are some of the toys (ah, excuse me, tackle) that we use for our freshwater charters at BAYMEN. If you fish the fresh with us, chances are you will be throwing some of these…  BAYMEN offers freshwater guided trips for trout, salters, largemouth, smallmouth, and the most under-rated game fish on southeastern Massachusetts waters  – the chain pickerel, also affectionately referred to as “GATORS.”

Call BAYMEN for personally guided outdoor adventures in Fishing, Hunting, Fowling, and Shellfishing on the Massachusetts coast!

Capt. Dave

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Boatinglocal Video about Capt. Dave

March 18th, 2012 | Author:

A nice video clip about Baymen Guide, Capt. David Bitters and his life on the bay…

 

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BAYMEN FISHING REPORTS MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON CAPE COD

October 7th, 2010 | Author:
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Here is the update on the Baymen fishing reports for Massachusetts, Boston, and Cape Cod bay from Baymen. Specifically, today’s report is for Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts. We are just coming out of a strong NE/E wind rain and fog pattern that has lasted for several days. Normally, with today’s West winds, things would turn around in a tide or two and the bay would fill up with migrating fish. This pattern would continue until all the fish up north pass through our waters as they move south to the Chesapeake, Delaware, and Hudson Rivers for the winter months. However, even though we have the NE/E weather pattern moving out, right on its tail we have big minus tides coming right in with a –1.0 October 6, a –1.5 October 7, a –1.7 October 8, and a –1.7 October 9. Then, next week, it starts to turn around with a –1.3 on October 10, a – 0.8 October 11, and a –0.2 on October 12. W are back into plus tides October 13 for the rest of the month.
 
The big question is this: is there enough time (read: bait, water temps, W/NW wind patterns and bass) after the tides turn around, to get into some fall striper blitz fishing in OUR BAY, here? South of us, absolutely. Right into Nauset to Long Island sound, as the remaining migrating fish move south. My guess, and that’s what keeps this game interesting year after year, is IF the fall fish are still coming down near shore and not passing us by offshore, we COULD see a significant fall blitz between October 13th and October….25th. This is a big IF. There are a lot of factors that could come into play over the next two weeks that could swing things one way or the other. But that is the realities of fall fishing with the weather pattern and tide pattern we are currently in.
 
How was the season overall? Excellent. Baymen boated 3,000 fish+/- on light tackle, bait, and fly gear. The majority striped bass, with some huge blues finally showing in our bay for the first time in decent numbers in September. We also did well on Spring (winter) flounder. Striped bass were very, very consistent this season. We were still into top-water sight fishing in July! And the spring blitz in May? By far the best spring we have seen in our bay in ten years! Also, the quality of fish in our bay was way up. I can not remember boating some many top-water stripers in the high teens to low twenty pound range on light tackle. Usually, we have a few big fish mixed in with a lot of small schoolies. This season has been just the opposite, much to pleasure and joy of sight fishing. Overall, this season has been one of the best in many, many years on Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts.
 
Baymen has four more scheduled charters to complete this weekend for wrap up our striped bass season. We are scouting the bay daily and will post Massachusetts fishing reports and photos right here at www.baymencharters.com We will start booking for the Spring Blitz 2011 in November. The best dates go fast, and May is booked solid quickly due to the excellent fishing and anglers chomping at the bit to get back out on the bay after a long winter. So, keep this in mind if you plan on fishing with Baymen in the Spring. Book early!
 
As the fishing season comes to a close on our bay, we have a few days of transition, and then we start the fall/winter waterfowling guide season, that will take us into the end of January. We also guide rabbit hunts over hounds and that runs through February. The end of March starts the beginning of the spring trout guide fishing season here in Massachusetts. Then, at the end of April, we are guiding our clients to Spring Turkey Season. Also it is the beginning of striped bass season in our bay, so there is a LOT happening and never a dull moment at Baymen Guide Service, Inc. all year long.
 
That’s the word for today, October 7th. All of our fishing, hunting and waterfowling reports and photos will be posted right here on our site all fall and winter, so check back often to stay up to date on what's going on in the woods and on the waters of Massachusetts.
 
Tight Lines!
 
Capt. David Bitters
(781) 934-2838
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SEPTEMBER 25th: 15 Fish, Keeper Bass, Blues, and WIND!!!

September 25th, 2010 | Author:
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Reports Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Boston, MA
www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838
SEPTEMBER 25th
TODAY: 15 Fish, Keeper Bass, Blues… WIND!!!
On board this morning, I had Keith McDonald and friends for some LT fishing on the bay. At first light, the winds were howling out of the SW and they never let the entire morning. But they stayed steady and did not keep increasing, so we made the best of it and went hunting for bass and blues. First cast of the morning on Brown’s Bank: KEEPAH! A nice bass hit a 4″ rubber crank bait – on 45 pound wire leader! Blues were out and about, so we fished wire leaders the entire morning. We also picked up a few small bass off Long Beach in a foot of water.
Thank God I looked up bay at the right time and saw a big flock of gulls working about 1/2 mile away. The waters were very choppy, but the birds were working and we ran for them. We pulled into a small pod of solid medium blues knocking bait into air and tearing up the water. We rigged everyone out with top-water hard baits, poppers, and then back to rubber shads. The blues hit poppers and shads about 50/50. The fish screamed off line and ran into the winds and that made for awesome fish fights on the LT. A really cool thing happened: The winds were so strong, they kept blowing us right up onto Captain’s Flat when ever we had a fish on. So, I told my charters to jump off the boat, use the wind and waves to our advantage, and beach the blues on the sand right up to Captain’s flat! This was great fun and once everyone got it down, it was automatic. A few photos of the guys beaching blues are on my site under the Baymen Reports.
We wrapped up the morning with about fifteen fish total, three of them bass, including a fat keeper, and the rest were solid blues. It was a great morning and a nice turnaround from yesterday. I’ll leave you with some of my tired and true sayings: “Every Day Is Different, And No Two Tides Are The Same….” and “You Never Know, If You Never Go…”
Tight Lines from Capt. David Bitters
Baymen Charters
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*Just one more: “If you slack, you lose!”
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BAY VOID OF FISH THIS MORNING….

September 24th, 2010 | Author:
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BAYMEN Fishing Reports Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Boston, Duxbury, Plymouth Massachusetts
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SEPTEMBER 24th
TODAY: In a word, Dead! The bay is void of fish this morning and we covered a lot of miles… At first light we ran to the Power Plant in search of yesterday’s big blues blitz. It was a ghost town…. We trolled and poked around and one boat ran to Mary Ann’s and came back with the word: Nothing there. We searched Browns Bank, Bert’s, White’s Flat, Plymouth Channel, The mooring fields in Plymouth Harbor and the Jetty, Kingston Channel, Cow Yard, Duxbury Channel, Splitting Knife, Beach Channel, North Side… and back to the Duxbury Harbor. Absolutely dead out there this morning. We did see one blue landed just north of Clark’s with five boats fishing it, but that was it. So, I called the trip and we came in early and set our sights on a new day. That’s fishing.
We may make an afternoon run today, and then we are on the next eight days in a row. I’ll post full reports right here on the website Baymen Reports on what’s going on out there.
Stay Posted:
Capt. David Bitters
(781) 934-2838
SEPTEMBER 24th PART II:
Just got off the water again after another look: Fished Plymouth Channel, Browns, Whites, Kingston, Beach Channel, Duxbury Channel. ZIP! I spoke with two other boaters that got into a quick blues blitz and landed a few blues of decent size. But it was over before it started. If you head out and put your time in today, in the SW chop, you may get a fish or two. But BAYMEN is canceling our afternoon charter and we will be watching the bay to make the call for tomorrow’s trip later this evening. It could turn around, and I hope it does, but right now, there is next to nothing in the bay.
Stay posted:
Capt. David Bitters
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Sept. 22nd: AMAZING BLUES BLITZ THIS MORNING…!!!

September 22nd, 2010 | Author:
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BAYMEN Fishing Reports Massachusetts, Boston, Cape Cod, Duxbury, Plymouth Massachusetts
www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838
SEPTEMBER 22
TODAY: Incredible Big Blues Blitz In Duxbury Bay!!!
On board this morning, I had repeat client, Russ Pelham for a light tackle charter. The SW winds were cranking this morning at 20 knots steady and it was pretty choppy. But my, didn’t big blues come pouring into the bay on the low tide rising! Insane numbers of blues in shallow water meant poppers on light tackle and scorching runs and long fights. Hundreds of birds were working over the rolling blues and we could count up to 60 blues in a pack going by the boat. And they were ultra aggressive – attacking our poppers two or three or more at a time right up to the boat. Just slamming them…! And the gear – they were destroying it as fast as I could rig it. we used 45 pound wire leaders and had some of the fish bite right through it. We had to back the boat down on at least ten of the fish with the light tackle. We just could not budge some of them against the sw winds. Let me tell you, light tackle (12lb and 15lb test) rods and spinning reels on these blues was an absolute blast…!
The good news is, I have tomorrow morning open for new bookings only if you want to go. We will leave Duxbury Town Pier at 6:30am and return around 11:00am. Three people max on this trip. All tackle is provided. If you want to experience light tackle blues fishing at its finest, give me a call and book for the morning. (781) 934-2838
Tight Lines – and Happy Last Day of Summer!
Capt. David Bitters
(781) 934-2838
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