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Busting bass and bluefish

"This week has gotten off to a bang," says Rob Robinson of Wildwood Outfitters in an e-mail. "First, Matt Winn took his father out to the south side of Block Iate last week and grabbed his personal best 54.7-pound bass and then followed it up with a 49.3-pound monster right after,drifting eels.

"The south side of the island has started to be spotty over the past few weeks, but it should pick up again well into early December like last year where our guys were pulling 50-pound fish during that period.

"John Torgan fished the west side and chased massive schools of busting false albacore and bonito. We landed three albies (on one trip) and one bonito (on another), all on #2 Deadly Dicks in silver on light spinning rods. In one of the bonito boils, just north of the rip, I thought I saw some small bluefin tuna, but I'm not sure."

From South County, Rob continues:

"The waters outside of Point Judith have filled up with large mummies, peanut bunker, and small menhaden. Guys were jigging through the bait with good success, grabbing fish up to 30 pounds. John Arnold of Hopkinton took two nice bass trolling Yo-Zuris off Deep Hole.

"The shore fishing has really arrived. Bonnet Shores Beach had blitzing blues
beaching themselves all day along the entire beach. Decent sized fish in the 8- to 10-pound range with a few bigger ones mixed in. Some were close to 15 pounds, chasing peanut bunker, and some bigger menhaden were mixed in, too. The lifeguards closed the beach. Great sight though, 10-pound blues cruising along in less than a foot of water, thousands and thousands of them. Those that had their rods with them had a fish on every cast, as soon as the plug literally hit the water.

"Joe Scichilone landed a 25.6-pound bass Saturday morning off Hazard Rocks on a olive needlefish.

"The South Shore is producing some of the best big bass of the season with guys pulling fish up to 45 pounds off the beach right behind the Ocean Mist. The early evening and morning bite has been the best with little or no bluefish to deal with. The fish were caught on 9-inch white swim shads. We have had fish between 30 and 42 pounds weighted in the last couple of days from that location."

Posted by Tom Meade  at 9:14 AM | Permalink