We are getting reports from Massachusetts to Maine that good numbers of large striped bass have returned for the summer. The Stripers are showing up in Boston area in the North Rivers river basins in areas like the Mystic, the Charles, and the Merrimack. The fish in these areas are showing in good numbers, but […]
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There’s an interesting story in today’s Boston Globe about a cod tagging program. With the help of The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts, fishermen and scientists have started tagging cod, inserting $300 trackers into 130 fish to better understand and protect their spawning. Researchers have placed 38 sensors in cod inhabited regions and will be able to […]
On October 3, 2013, tuna fisherman Steve McNally was fishing by himself off of Cape Cod when he hooked a rather large tuna–a 650-pounder. Though McNally had landed bigger fish, including an 1,100 pound tuna he caught a few years ago, the 650-pounder was more than he could handle by himself. So, he did what […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will be offering a number of free workshops in the coming months, including a series of Atlantic shark identification workshops and protected species safe handling, release, and identification workshops. The Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops will be held on October 17, 2013 in Braintree, MA; November 17, 2013 in […]
Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, NOAA, South Carolina
Saltwater Nation anglers working waters along the northern shore of Massachusetts have been reporting seeing an increase in the numbers of longfin inshore squid (Doryteuthis pealeii), a species common to the North Atlantic and ranging from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Venezuela, though most abundant from Georges Bank to Cape Hatteras. There’s nothing unusual, that […]
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Congratulations to Bob Roy Sr. of Salisbury, Massachusetts who has caught the largest striper (Morone saxatilis) taken in Massachusetts waters in years. Roy’s 54-pound, 10-ounce striper taken outside the mouth of the Merrimack River, is the first 50-pound plus fish to be caught in the area since 2010. Roy was drifting a live mackerel outside the […]
Rumors are coming in from Cape Cod that someone caught a sailfish in the Cape Cod Canal on Tuesday. The video embedded here was posted to YouTube today by “plugho” and seems to testify to the fact that a sail was taken in the Canal. Of course, the video does have the feel of a […]
Last week Saltwater Nation anglers were excited to see large schools of bluefish move into the Long Island area. This week, we’re hearing reports from Saltwater Nation anglers that huge schools of blues have made their way up the coast and are making an appearance off of Cape Cod. We’re getting good reports from Race […]