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Fat and healthy bass

High winds made boat handling a challenge today, but anglers fishing aboard Can't Imagine caught about 25 bass as large as 21 pounds.

They were fishing with live menhaden off Prudence Island, according to Billy Silvia, skipper of the charter boat.

"They were all quality fish, fat and healthy," he said.

Bass fishing continued to good in the Providence River, according to scattered reports.

Last season, a few trophy-bass hunters from Rhode Island would catch menhaden in the Bay and then run to the rips and reefs of Long Island Sound.

Today, Pat Abate of River's End Tackle, at the mouth of the Connecticut River, compared this year's early-season fishing to last year's:

"Its good but not as good as last season. There have been bass from the sandbar near the Breakwater up to Marker 25 in Essex. Anglers having the best results have been on ebb tides and searching until they locate the bass. Slug-gos and similar plastics have had the best results.

"The DEP Piers and Saybrook Point have been good for shorebound casters using bait. Some keepers have been caught there. The Old Lyme beaches have had a slow week.There's been adult bunker in the Connecticut River for a week now.

"Bunker dunkers have scored a few cows in the River and Plum Gut. Theres been some bass at Southwest Reef and East Rip for bucktail drifters."

Posted by Tom Meade  at 3:14 PM | Permalink