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Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

Title:	Fishing-V2: All About Angling
Notice:	Time to go fishin'! dayegins
Moderator:	WAHOO::LEVESQUE

Created:	Fri Jul 19 1991
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	548
Total number of notes:	9621

423.0. "Baitfish arrivals in MK River?" by AOSG::HEBENSTREIT () Fri Jan 13 1995 15:56

Does anybody have any records indicating when the various baitfish
arrive and/or spawn in the Merrimac or Piscataqua rivers?

As I recall from reading The Fisherman, shad arrived the last week
of April in the MK river.  Herring arrived around the beginning of
May ... just a few weeks before the stripers.  According to Kay
Moulton of Surfland, stripers arrive at the same time as apple
blossoms.  Mackeral entered Portsmouth harbor about one week into
June.  As far as i can tell, pogies by-passed Portsmouth altogether
last year.

Would anyone care to offer better dates?  Anyone know when silversides
spawn?

Mark

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
423.1	A date would only be a guess...	SUBPAC::CRONIN		`Mon Jan 16 1995 08:38`	8
	RE: .0 Listen to Kay. My Dad taught me pussywillows for Flounder and apple blossoms for Stripers. It worked for him since he was young and it's still working for me. The fish don't care about the calender, they care about the weather/water temps. B.C.
423.2		WMOIS::KENNEY_J		`Mon Jan 16 1995 09:03`	9
	Once upon a time the cod would arrive in the merrimack at apple blossom time. You could catch them drifting between the jetties. Some of our best cod trips were right in the river's mouth. One afternoon there was a school of medium size polluck right over a school of cod. We were actualy trolling cod and polluck like you would for blues and bass. Jim
423.3	Naturalism?	NUBOAT::HEBERT	Captain Bligh	`Mon Jan 16 1995 12:42`	6
	And tautog arrive in Narragansett Bay and the Sakonnet River when the dandelions blossom. Check it out. Art
423.4		PEROIT::LUCIA	So many fish, so little time	`Mon Jan 16 1995 15:07`	29
	Shad at apple blossum. Stripers 3rd week in may, but really good in early June. The order I've always seen is herring:mid April Shad: late April/Early May Stripers Mid/late may Each species is two weeks behind the other. Last year, I caught some of the very first stripers of the season on 11-May-1994. I had been catching shad for about 2 weeks and when the tide was right, I always fished shad in the day and stripers at night. There was nobody there before about 18-May-1994. I had a whole week with myself & one or two other people of catching them before the hordes came in. My best trip was 27-May-1994, with 20 fish in 1.25 hours. The shad run last year was horrible in the Merrimack. I grew up on the banks of the CT and last year was the first time in years I went back there to fish it again. One weekend I got 13 shad one morning and 8 the next. I think I got 11 shad last year in about 8 trips on the MK... and they were all under 12". This year, I will probably get a canoe, which will let me flyrod for the shad out there in MK where the shad run well...They are just out of shore casting distance most of the time. Tim
423.5		PEROIT::LUCIA	So many fish, so little time	`Mon Jan 16 1995 15:08`	2
	p.s. The sand eels spawn when the stripers get there... I mean the stripers get there when the sand eels spawn.
423.6		MSBCS::HURLEY		`Fri Jun 28 1996 11:38`	3
	I dont have much time this weekend but was thinking of fishing sunday morning 4-6ish.. Problem is are there any tackle shops open that I can get bait that early?