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Lower Bay bass are biting

The Eelman this morning

Bill "Eelman" Nolan fished with Steve McKenna today and caught several fish between 18 and 41 pounds. The largest weighed 41.3 pounds, Bill's heaviest bass this season.

They were fishing in the lower Bay, he said. The upper Bay is too crowded for him.

Posted by Tom Meade  at 2:49 PM | Permalink

Five minutes ago: fish at Port Edgewood

Five minutes ago, Ed Hughes called from Port Edgewood to say he was slamming stripers on flies.

"It didn't matter where I went or what color I used," he said. "There were fish everywhere. I think the key was the incoming tide."

Ed was wading. On his first cast, he caught a 30-inch bass.

"I was worried that it would be a jinx, but it wasn't," he said. "I think I caught a fish on every cast after that, and they were all bass, no bluefish."

Posted by Tom Meade  at 11:48 AM | Permalink

Big carp on the mulberry 'hatch'

Dave Pickering with a 10-pounder yesterday

“Carp fishing is red-hot right now as the fish are in a post-spawn feeding period,” writes Dave Pickering. “The mulberry ‘hatch’ is also on and the carp are feeding big time on them. My son, Jon, and I have been hitting our mulberry spots along the Blackstone River every morning in the last week. We get from 5 to 7 fish in a couple of hours with the average carp around 10 pounds. However, we landed a huge mirror carp this morning on a mulberry. The fish weighed in the low twenties, one of the largest mirrors we have ever caught. The thunderstorms and heavy rains of the last week have knocked down tons of berries and that has resulted in fantastic fishing.”

From the Wood River, fly fisherman Ed Lombardo reports:

"We went to the Wood Tuesday night, not knowing that it rained very very hard that afternoon. The river can up a good 12" or so within a matter of hours from the night before. I have never in all my years of fishing the Wood have seen it turn from crystal clear to a dark chocolate brown, so fast.

"The good news is that the Hex still came off on time at 8:45 p.m. and it emerged in good numbers. A lot of duns and some spinners. The bad news is that the fish only came up for a matter of, oh, five minutes.

"I believe that the river will not be right for a good three to four days. The weather forecast is more rain and thunder storms starting again today. This will put a damper on the Wood for a while. I think that the river will not be right until Friday or Saturday nights.

"The two fish that we managed to hookup, took a spinner."

Posted by Tom Meade  at 6:33 AM | Permalink