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Fish everywhere

Mike Munroe yesterday

Fishing on the Bay and off the beaches is steady for anglers willing to work. Here are reports from three states by two anglers. Also, look ar Kevin Bettencourt's report in comments.

Mike Munroe reports:

I set out from Oakland Beach Sunday around 7:45 on my boat the Per Diem with my buddies Todd and Mike. The fog was very thick and we had extremely limited visibility. This really hindered us from finding schools of pogies, We were hoping to live-line for the day. The schools we hit were very small compared to last year at this time and disappeared quickly. Since we had limited bait for the day, we decided to chunk the pogies instead. We hit Bear Point with no luck in about an hour, there were a ton of boats at the point.

After this, we headed to Pine Hill point and anchored. The wind was blowing hard out of the southwest and eventually shifted to come directly out of the west, but calmed down a bit in the early afternoon. We chunked pogies and landed a couple of great stripers. I've attached a picture of one that I pulled in. We also had a good number of blues come through with the largest pushing about 10 pounds. We trolled along the west side of Prudence on our way back to the harbor and hit a couple of more good sized blues on some poppers.

All in all a great day even though we had some difficulty finding the pogies!

Nils Christensen of Ultimate Kayak Fishing reports:

Friday night a 35-pound striper was caught in Stonington Conn. from a kayak by
Craig Stoner

Saturday we fished Cape Cod Canal One Fly tournament in Support for Casting for Recovery. With the high winds the kayakers had a hard time with no legal fish landed. Shore fishermen and women had the same problems with the wind and largest fish caught was a 22 inch striper.

Sunday was my first time out fluking in front of Misquamicut beach, and we had a nice day with fluke up to 25 inches. With the fog and high swells the drive out was difficult but in the afternoon the fog burned off and it ended with sunshine.>

Part two from Nils:

Capt Billy Silvia had some nice fish this weekend:

Saturday: Capt Billy took Melanie Disano's party fishing before the bad weather hit, and we landed a few nice bass near Prundence Island. The biggest bass that was landed was by Melanie at about 20 pounds. The weather was horrible.

Sunday: Capt Billy took Helene and John fishing for striped bass around Prundence Isannd. The bite was a little slow, but John landed a beautiful 34-pound bass that was 47 inches long and landed a few more bass, and some bluefish

Capt Billy sends a special congratulations to Peter Dias and Chestnut Hill Fishing team for the efforts in winning the "Striper Marina" 15'th Annual Striped Bass tournament with a 31-1/2-pound
bass landed on the "Cant Image" on Friday.

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