Coastal New Hampshire and Maine Fishing Report- September 21, 2023
Rivers are flush with bait and bass, while offshore, tuna are still on a tear and Jeffrey’s ledge is producing good numbers of groundfish and some impressive cod.
Rivers are flush with bait and bass, while offshore, tuna are still on a tear and Jeffrey’s ledge is producing good numbers of groundfish and some impressive cod.
Bass and blues are in binge mode and can be found wherever pogies are schooled up.
Cod fever continues with good action at Jeffrey’s Ledge, while tuna are being found regularly feasting on sea herring around Scantum.
Strong striped bass and bluefish blitzes are being fueled by both adult and peanut bunker, cod action has been strong, and fluke season is going out with a bang.
Big bass up to 50 inches are smashing herring along area beaches, while bottom fishing around Jeffrey’s Ledge has been producing haddock, hake, pollock and cod.
Spanish mackerel and false albacore are in binging on bait, stripers and bluefish are making short work of peanut bunker, and double-digit cod are scoffing down clams and crushing jigs.
Recent rainfalls have pushed bait and bass out onto beaches and rocky points.
Blues have been belting plugs and shredding soft plastics from Nahant through Salem, with pogy schools at the latter holding some impressive bass.
Free-falling water temperatures are driving stripers, blues, black sea bass, tautog, and groundfish all into feeding mode.
Roving packs of bass are moving along area beaches picking off mackerel chunks as well as clams on the bottom.