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AUGUST 27th: EAST WIND STORM COOLS BAY BITE
August 27th, 2010 | 
Author: Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Massachusetts
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FRIDAY August 27th
TODAY
We just came off three days of pounding East winds with ten foot waves onshore. I gave the bay one day to settle down, and then we went out this morning. It was dead out there, with very, very few fish in the bay at the moment. That will change, but it may take another tide or two or more… Time will tell. That said, SANTA, King Of The Powder Point Bridge, managed a nice keeper this morning of about 18 pounds, on chunk bait off the bridge at dead-low tide. He also caught two sharks. A few schoolies were around the bridge as well.
We are scheduled to be back on the water in the morning, but are watching the fishing conditions to see if things improve. Stay posted. Its going to turn around big time, but I’m just not sure when. A day or two or a week….
Capt. David Bitters
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July 9th – 9 Fish, Keep Bass, 21″ Inch Fluke
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report for Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
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Friday, July 9,2010
TODAY: 9 fish, 1 Keeper Bass, 21″ Inch Fluke
On board this morning I had repeat clients, George Harrington, Sr., his son, George, Jr., and George Jr.’s two boys, Jack (10) and Quinn (9). The Harringtons have been fishing with Baymen for three years. Heading out this morning, it was dead-calm, overcast, and we had birds working top-water stripers! That’s pretty rare for July, but we saw several fish breaking the surface and tried to set drifts over them. They were very spooky, very fast moving. “Pop-Corn Bass” is what I call them. You see them break for just a second and try to get to them. By the time you get there, they pop up two hundred yards away. It takes patience and it paid of for us today.
Jack hooked into a keeper striped bass that broke top-water. The fish hit a 3″ inch rubber crank bait and made a nice, screaming run. Jack, 10, worked the fish for some time and was able to finally bring it to net like a pro. We scooped up that fish and high fives went up all around. Nice job, Jack!
We continued to chase breaking fish for most of the morning. That original plan was to fish cut bait on the bottom in the hopes of picking up a bass or two. When we saw breaking fish, I finally decided to give chase and work the top-water for the morning. Water temps are unbelievable this morning: SEVENTY-EIGHT a the Powder Point Bridge, and SIXTY-TWO by the Bug Light. That’s a sixteen degree difference from one end of the bay to the other. Pretty amazing…. There was no bait in the bay today, although we did see a sparse number of pogies at first light. We did not mark any fish down deep to speak of in the bay. We did get bit off a few times by snapper blues, but saw no serious bluefish action inside.
The big excitement was Quinn’s big catch: A 21″ inch fluke! Towards the end of our trip, we set a few drifts with fluke rigs and mackerel strips in the channels. Quinn’s rod bent over and he had quite a fight on his hands. After some time, he brought the big fluke to the surface and we netted it and got it into the boat. Big teeth on this fluke. The fluke joined Jack’s keeper bass in the cooler and we called it a great morning on the beautiful bay. Total catch today was 9 fish. About right for July in our bay. Guess what the fluke had in its belly, by the way…? Another fluke!
That’s the word for today, July 9th. Best of luck to those heading out for a great weekend of fishing!
Capt. David Bitters
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Schoolies, Sharks, Whale In Bay
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
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TODAY: Sharks, Whale, Schoolies
On board this morning I had repeat client, “Little John” Davis and his friend, Cody of Uxbridge, MA. After yesterdays two bass morning, the plan was to go out front for bait and come back inside and bottom drift for fluke. Heading out the Duxbury Channel, a ton of small striped bass came in on the tide along with a ton of juvi herring. Water temps were in the high 60′s, a few degrees cooler than yesterday. Lots of gulls and terns working the spooky bait and bass all around the bay. These were small fish from what we could see. A couple big explosions on the water indicated a few big bass were mixed in. We fished LT for the schooled bass and picked up a couple. It was pretty hard to get them to take.
Next, we ran out front for bait. The plan was to catch bait, bring it back inside, and fish for fluke and bass at the same time, drifting down the channels. But there was no bait to be found. Dog fish have moved in big time and the pollock and macks were gone. We ran back inside and decided to chase the bass with light tackle and fly gear. We chased the small pods that broke up before you could get on them. And then we settled down to drift some structure and pick off a few more schooled striped bass. Total catch for today was a half-dozen striped bass, all shorts, and a couple spiny dogfish.
The big excitement of the morning was seeing a pilot whale breaching off Saquish. We drifted and saw the whale rise three times, heading towards Gurnet, down the Plymouth Channel. Its been some time, many years, since I’ve seen a whale inside the bay. It was an awesome sight!
That’s the word for today. I am on in the morning and we may try for fluke on the bottom. I am sure they are here but have yet to fish for them this season.
Tight Lines & Stay Posted. Every day is different, and no two tides are the same…
Capt. David Bitters
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12 Bass, 1 Keeper – yesterday’s fish gone
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report For Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
Saturday, June 26, 2010 www.baymencharters.com (781) 934-2838
TODAY: 12 Bass, 1 Keeper
On board this morning I had repeat clients, Skip Copeland, his son, Ryan, and Dave. The plan was a morning of bait fishing for striped bass in Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth bay. At first light, it was another flat-calm morning as we ran off Gurnet to jig for bait. Tons of mackerel and pollock and jigged up about fifty in no time, and ran back inside to liveline.
I had hoped for a repeat of yesterday’s dozen keepers that were stacked up in one of my spots. But on arrival, the water temps had risen TEN DEGREES overnight, and the hot spot had cooled and yesterday’s fish were gone. But there were some new fish there, giant schoolies that were very, very fat and made some screaming runs on the baitrunners! We boated fish or had runs on every drift.
Next spot, we decided to set a drift high up on the flats and drift down over the drop-off. To my surprise, we got several runs and boated a few fish high on the flats and none at the drop-off. Bass are where you find them, not where you want them to be, so we set another drift and had a few more runs and hook-ups.
Third spot of the morning deep in Duxbury, we drifted a tried and true rising tide spot without a hit. We fished both ends of a guzzle to no avail. On to Spot #4 and once again, nothing. At the back end of the guzzle, however, we saw a fish break water and marked two bass and some bait in about fifteen feet of water. We got a hit and run on our first drift, but the fish spit the bait. We drifted two more times without a hit. On to spot #5 of the morning. If you have been following the Baymen Reports all spring and seen photos of us with fish after fish in the low twenty-pound range, that’s #5! Today, it was dead. No even a bump and that tells me we are into the Summer pattern in a big way. No surprise there.
Well, the baits had all gone south and we were fishing fresh chunks now. We went back to our first spot of the morning, set a drift, and Skip hooks into a keeper! As we were pulling into the area, a fish broke right off our bow. We shut down and had baits in the water in about five seconds. Ten seconds later, we the fish on! We set more drifts and boated a couple more fat schoolie bass to 27″ inches. Then we drifted some flat up towards Kingston, had one run, and that was it. We wrapped up our morning drifting down cow yard without a bump.
Total catch today was a dozen bass and one keeper. All were landed on live or chunk baits. Water temps were TEN DEGREES warmer this morning in yesterday’s Hot Spot that was on fire. The bait is still thick out front and there are some nice bass in the bay today, but no monster fish. Maybe tomorrow… All in all, a fine morning on flat-calm seas with three fine anglers that took home a keeper for supper.
I have a few days off to mow the lawn, take the trash to the dump, plant my tomatoes (!), etc., etc., and will be back on the bay next week. Best of luck to all of you heading out and a great weekend to all…!
Tight Lines,
Capt. David Bitters
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Saturday June 12 – 27 BASS, 2 KEEPERS
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BAYMEN Fishing Report – Saturday, June 12
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TODAY: 27 BASS, 2 KEEPERS
On board today I had Skip Copeland & Co. (David & Josh) for a half-day light tackle trip for striped bass. At first light, we were into bass on our first drift. Our first two casts landed us two keepers!!! We boated three more fish on the low tide on structure and then moved around the bay to new spots on the incoming tide. Gurnet, surprisingly, held no fish for us. It looked perfect, but bass are where you find them, not where you want them to be.
The coolest time of the morning (or one of them) was when we found a pod of bass trapped in a low tide bowl on a flat. The fish were panicked on the low tide with the last of the water running over the sand bar. They had to get out or they would be trapped in there until high water. Schools of fish were finning and wiggling over the sand bar to get out of the bowl and into deeper water. It was awesome to see, something I have never witnessed before on the bay. They were in a panic and struggling to get over the bar.
Later in the morning, we fished the “aquarium” and found several bass to the mid-thirty inches that were not interested in eating. We got some follows but no takers. Next, we drifted over “Willy Willets” where we have been landing big bass in the twenty pound range all season. We only found a few small bass on the structure and moved on. “Snake Pit” gave up a few small bass as well as Kingston channel where we ended out morning. Total catch and release today was 27 striped bass and two keepers. All in all, another great morning of world-class striped bass fishing on Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth bay, Massachusetts!
Have a great weekend and best of luck on your next trip out. We will be starting to add bait fishing to our fly and LT gear next week as the summer pattern settles in. If you want to book a half-day charter with Baymen, give us a call (781) 934-2838.
Tight Lines!
Capt. David Bitters
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Fly * Light Tackle * Bait Trips
Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth & Beyond
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118 STRIPED BASS THIS MORNING…!!!!!!!
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report – Friday, May 28, 2010
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TODAY – 118 BASS…!!!!!!
Yes, you read that right. Today we caught and release one-hundred-eighteen striped bass in Plymouth, Duxbury, and Kingston bay… It was by far one of the best light tackle charters we have ever had. On board today, I had repeat clients, Dwight Pierce, Jay Cohen, and John Soucy for a sunrise half-day charter.
At first light on the last hour of the dropping tide, we found a two acre school of striped bass feeding on tons of bait, all on top-water. We started our morning at sunrise with this pod of fish and fished them right through the slack tide. They never stopped feeding. Then, as the tide turned and started to come back in, thousands of striped bass poured into the bay, following big schools of bait. At one point, we estimated we were into a school of bass ten (10) acres across. The fish were shoulder to shoulder and they just kept coming. The far majority were year class fish, something we have not seen in our bay in some time. Most of the fish have been big. Today, they were all sizes from 12″ inches to twenty-five pounders, from what we could see.
No matter where we went today, we found schools of breaking fish. Duxbury, Kingston, and Plymouth all had big schools. Tons of bass like we have not seen in quite a few seasons. The bay was just loaded. All our fish were taken on light tackle gear, 12lb and 15lb line and rubber crank baits with a Baymen Bounce retrieve. We dropped a nice fish at Saquish Head in two (2) feet of water at the boat that was about 30″ inches long. Later in the morning, Dwight hooked into the mother of striped bass that doubled his rod over and screamed line off his reel. It just kept running, taking line, and making his reel sing to our delight. Five minutes into the fish fight, we knew it was a big, big fish even though we had not seen it. And then…. the line went slack as the fish finally wore the hook loose… What a heartbreaker of a fish!
The loss was overshadowed by the fact that we boated 118 other bass this morning for three rods, all on light tackle. We have not done that in quite some time, and it was the biggest catch of fish for the BAYMEN this season. It was a stunning morning on the bay, flat calm, beautiful sunrise, and striped bass all across the bay slamming baitfish in top-water. It won’t last, and soon we will be into the bump and grind summer pattern. But my, was it ever nice see and experience it all in our six hour charter. Way to go, guys. I hope it lasts just little longer.
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY AND TO ALL OF OUR SOLDIERS: Thank you for my freedom!
Capt. David Bitters
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38 BASS THIS MORNING
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Fishing Report – Monday, May 24, 2010
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MONDAY
On the water this morning with repeat clients Rolando Jeeter, Dr. Play, and Vermonter, Peter B.
At first light, heavy dense fog moving north across the flat-calm bay at sunrise. And water temps had risen TEN DEGREES in the last 48 hours…!!! It was 65 degrees when we left the dock. Down bay on the incoming tide, we found water temps as low as 56 degrees. That’s where all the fish were. We got into numerous small pods of striped bass in Plymouth and Kingston all morning. The fish were a little spooky, but they continued to feed right through high slack and started to trickle down around 11:00am when called it a morning. Total catch for the morning was 38 bass for three rods. All the fish were taken on LT and had to be coaxed to hit. We really had to mix it up to keep them biting. A ton of the bass were in the 27″inch plus range with the bigger ones just shy of keepers at 27 3/4″ inches. All the fish were amazingly fat and gorged on the small, 2″ inch bunker in the bay. All in all a great day on the bay with three great anglers!
South of Duxbury, Bull’s Report:
“Bluefish. All up and down the Plymouth coast. They came through the canal yesterday and were here today. Did find some small bass using swimmers. The canal has gone to summer mode for me. That means nights on the bottom with bucktails and sluggos. There will be occasional fish on top during breaking tides such as this upcoming weekend. Fishing in the harbor should be good. Wire line spoons or bucktails over at P-town should start working.”
Saturday Offshore Report:
While we were pulling out all the stops Saturday to find fish inshore, Greg Smith found the mother load of bass offshore. High Rod reports 20+ keepers, all slamming macks and rubber crank baits. Greg said he was going through 15 macks an hour on runs!
That’s the word for today, Monday, May 24, 2010. Back at it again in the morning. I have tomorrow open for a 5:00am-11:00am charter. Shoot me an e-mail if you want to book it.
Tight Lines!
Capt. David Bitters
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FISH GONE, BAY VERY QUIET… 4 Bass, 1 Keeper
Capt. Dave’s
BAYMEN Report – Monday, May 17, 2010
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FISH GONE, BAY VERY QUIET… 4 Bass, 1 Keeper
The massive schools of striped bass in Duxbury/Plymouth/Kingston Bay have left and the bay is very, very quiet. On board today I had repeat client, Rich Comstock from New York. Richard is a do or die fly rodder that has been fishing with me for many years. We have fished it all – fog, rain, wind, cold, and today – a very quiet bay…
If you have been following the BAYMEN Fishing Reports, you know the bay had an estimated 2,000 (???) striped bass on top-water for hours and hours at a time, for many days in a row. It was intense and amazing and those of you that fished it with me experienced it first hand. I had hopes that today would be more of the same but it was the exact opposite. All the fish have left the bay accept for a very small handful of bass. This will change, but that’s how it is today.
We did find a couple small schools of “pop-corn” striped bass in the bay and managed four bass and one keeper in nine hours. That’s a slow day. But it was still enjoyable to be on the bay. With fishing, you have to take it all in stride. Every day is different and no two tides are the same. We did take a nice mid-morning break waiting for the tide to change and went to Richard’s beach house to relax. Then, it was back out with hopes of fish coming into the bay on the rising tide, but it never happened. Tomorrow, Richard will be fishing with me again as part of his double-header fishing trip with BAYMEN Charters. Stay posted. A full report to follow.
Capt. David Bitters
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