Fishing Boston Harbor and Beyond

So the tournament ran from 5am to 1:30pm. High tide was at at 4:30, which gave us a tough fishing window.

On Friday afternoon I swung by the Hull tackle store at picked up some worms and extra circle hooks

Team Lonsdale got up just before 6am Saturday morning, by the time we got everything together including getting doughnuts we left the dock a little after 6:30am, and by around 7, we made it to the 1st spot I wanted to fish. Brian was there with 1st Tracks so we went to plan B, fishing Toddy rocks. We started by going with the current, but on reaching the far end turned around and went against the current. There was some super nice structure and wasn’t long till we had a hook up which our Female resident angler took and delivered us our 1st fish of the day.

We tried a bit longer at the same spot with no hook ups so moved to Plan C, fishing in Boston inner harbor.

Tate hooked up this time with a fish that had to half the size of the tube and worm and not much bigger than a Brook Trout. We quickly released him and fished a bit longer. We didn’t have another hook up some slowly worked our way towards home looking for any bird action. Seeing nothing and given that it was blazing hot. We called it a day at around 10am and went for a swim at Grand Dad Dereks pool.

We returned to HYC, for awards and found that Chelsea had placed 2nd in women’s division.

All togher a fun and successful morning out in the whaler.

The day started off as any other, us cruising around the harbor looking for birds. We checked out, Fore River, Quincy Bay, Airport, The Poop Factory and then headed home via Hull Gut.

As we neared Georges we saw a line of boats with oranges flags, as we got closer we saw they were each guarding a swimmer. We slowly picked our way around them and continued on our way.

As we approached Hull Gut, we noticed a number of boats 5-6 at this time grouped together in front of the gut. Getting closer we saw a number of birds and realized something fun was going on.

Hooked up first cast of my small silver RonZ. Given the aggressiveness of the take and the fight realized I had a blue fish on. Only as we were about to pull the fish in did it finally make its way through my mono. Mike and I hurriedly tried to switch over to a wire tipet. He beat me to the next bite, however somehow on getting it to the boat he broke his rod tip off so ended fishing the rest of the day with a 4 foot spin rod.

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Helped Brian splash his boat. We then took a cruise around the harbor looking for some calm water to tube and worm or birds working.

Caught three fish including a 27 incher. All caught on tube and worm in the inner harbor in Boston.

Saw a lot of birds in the inner harbor and around old long island bridge

Left dock at 6am in 10kn+ of breeze. Middle tide heading to low.

Did the loop to HYC, Hull Bay, through the gut to south side of Long Island then to Long Island bridge supports, through Quincy Bay, around Nut island and back into Fore River, where we finally found birds working and fish.

We caught 6 or so fish, the largest a few inches too small to make slot limit. We were both using Ronz’s in silver that seemed to be working better than bubblegum.

• Whaler
• Added 11.4 gallons of gas
• Engine ran fine

So hopped on a friends boat for a tuna hunt Saturday. We left Falmouth around 4:30 with lines in around 6. We hit most of the spots Capt Mike suggested. Didn’t see or catch any tunas, but did see a ton of whales and dolphins and the weather and company was great.

Some vid of the dolphins out to play

I’m on 5:40 boat. Tide is ebbing, 1 hr to low…