We are getting plenty of good to excellent cod and haddock fishing !!!<br /><br />The schoolie stripers have been in the Annisquam for the last 3weeks Fly fishermen are having a blast!!!<br /><br />The big stripers are still holding off shore 8-10 miles and could be inshore any day now!!!
I use to take my 20 footer out 15 miles to Stellwagon Bank!!! Have to pick your days !!! Ocean can get pretty mean!!! Might want to leave your insurance policy on the table so the wife won't have to look for it!!!<br /><br />This time of year cod are in close!! you may get a couple more weeks!!! Saturday night ledge is close!! Also about 3-4 miles from Thatchers Light which is the beginning of Jefferies!!!
Flounder fishing has been excellent!!!<br />We have been catching them using sea worms!!!<br />Clam strips will also work!!!<br />Can catch them on a fly rod also using white clousers on the bottom!! Need to use a full sinking line!!!<br /><br />Bait is the best way to go!!! <br /><br />We'll jig up the macks and float em under a balloon, and beat the rocks with the flyrods. Looks like its gonna be a good day to be out on the big pond
Deep water is the place to be in the bay if you are in a boat!!!<br /><br />Fishing is " EXCELLENT!!!!" <br /><br />Much better then the rocks!!!!<br /><br />Fly rod with a full sinking line while you are floating the macks on regular tackle !!!<br /><br />I use an Orvis depth charge that sinks to forty feet!!!! <br /><br />My arms are pooped from winding fish in all morning! Three of us in the boat and we landed well over 50 fish. No 50 pounders, but we got one 48" that went 36 pounds. All of us brought one keeper over 40" home. We are getting ready to grill them up this afternoon. Great day on the big pond. <br /><br />Got one heck of a sunburn too
Congradulations!!!! <br /><br />You had a great day!!!<br /><br />I'm surprised that 48" fish didn't weigh more!! Was it racey looking??? Alot of big males seem to have that thin look and don't seem to be as big as the females!!!<br /><br />Did ya hve a chance to use the fly rod???<br /><br />We had three fish 36"- 41" and a few misses!!!<br /><br />Macks were scarce around Halibut Point!! Had only six in a half hour!!!<br /><br />Used the fly rod and only caught a mackerel!!! 
Rolmops!!! glad you had a great time!!!<br />Was you out there Saturday or Sunday???<br /><br />Saturday was a great day on the water!!!<br /><br />Sunday wasn't so good!!! I cancelled a charter because it called for 20-25kt. winds and small craft warnings!!! We had 4-5'seas,white caps yesterday afternoon!!! Two 15 year old boys in a 16' capsized 1/2 mile out,one was floating with a life jacket on and died in the hospital this morning and one swam to an island and rescued this morning and is in hospital!!!<br /><br />We have a excellent ramp here across from the Yankee fleet behind the high school!!! Cost $5.00 a day to launch!!<br /><br />The mouth of the Merrimack can be deadly for small boats!!! Seasons just beginning and there has already been 4 boats that have capsized and one dead from exhaustion!!! <br /><br />If you ever get a little further south, they are on big time at the Isles of Shoals. <br /><br />Good Luck
Find the mackerel and you should be into stripers!!! When the macks are close to shore we catch a bunch and go to the 30 fathom line!!! Just be carefull not to be out over the three mile limit!!!<br /><br />Don't know about Maine but here in Ipswich Bay we fish the 30 fathom line early in the season!!! For some reason the stripers seem to like that depth!!! when no macks we fish chunk herring and we also chum pieces!!! When dogs move in change location and try again!!! 
