Fishing Report 11/19, 11/24, and 11/25
Hi everybody, we fished the Narrow River on 11/19, 11/25, and, 11/26.
On the 19th. The shad where stacked up very heavy from Middlebridge all the way down to the mouth. We did take a few bass, schoolies but for the most part shad. The tide was outgoing.
On the 19th. The shad where stacked up very heavy from Middlebridge all the way down to the mouth. We did take a few bass, schoolies but for the most part shad. The tide was outgoing.
On Saturday the 25th. I had taken no shad just stripers, schoolies, one fish, oh, maybe 24”, on an outgoing tide. I had to work hard for the stripers on this day, all the fish where down deep, and I didn’t spot much bait anywhere on the river, from Middlebridge to Sprague Bridge. I used large stealth flies, oh, 6-7” long and smaller white and olive deceivers’ as a dropper.
We left the river and went to check out Charlestown Beach and the Breachway. On the beach we could see bait stacked up all the way from the corner of the wall to just before the pink cottage and only about 30 feet off shore. That’s a good mile or so. The tide was outgoing and we where not alone, there must have been 40 fisherman or more both on the beach and on the wall.
We saw birds working close and also way off shore. The schools of fish, (stripers) where moving fast, if you ran to where the fish and birds where feeding you didn’t have much time to fish over them. We didn’t take any fish from these schools; the bait was so thick that every cast would hook a bunker and two bunker more times than one. Some of these bait fish, bunker where as large as 4-5” long maybe 10% of them. We didn’t see many fish being caught. We left the beach and walked inside to fish the river.
The breachway was beautiful, outgoing flow that made a perfect situation for a dead drift presentation. We fished this perfect water for a good half hour or so and no fish and no where near the bait inside as outside on the beach.
Sunday, 11/26 we fished the Narrow River, Point Judith Pond, and checked out East Matunuck Beach. The wind was very strong yesterday coming out of the southwest. We fished for more than five hours moving around as you can see and no fish taken, not even a strike. Just keep going for now, as long as the weather cooperates.
I’ll be going out this week again; the weather is going to be warmer starting this Tuesday and Wednesday, in the 50’s. I will post a report as soon as I get back
Best always, Ed www.edlombardoflyfish.com
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