Hunting trophy stripers in July – Fall River, MA – The Herald News

By Charley Soares, Special to The Herald News

GateHouse News Service

Posted Jul 04, 2009 @ 11:24 PM

The local gin mill was the gathering place for all the usual suspects that assembled there to decry the state of warm weather fishing while waiting for news of the first good catch of summer stripers.

They weren’t completely idle; they didn’t expect the active fishermen to walk in and provide them with detailed information on their forays so they sent out scouts.

There wasn’t a boat ramp that we frequented that didn’t have the obligatory old timer under their guise of taking their wives out for an ice cream cone and catching a summer afternoon of evening breeze.

These gents would casually walk over to our boats and ask the obligatory questions. “How did you do? Catch any fish? Leave a few out there for me. Where were you fishing? …”

One especially aggressive man, who was not satisfied with my “OK” response, actually climbed into my boat while I was hooking up the winch cord. I looked up to find him lifting the cover of my fish cooler which held four stripers. After impolitely asking him to step down, he smiled and drove away.

The following morning there was at least half dozen new trailers in the Padanaram parking lot whose owners weren’t out fishing but searching for any boats that were. My advice to fishermen is don’t allow old wives tales about summer weather doldrums to keep you off the water.

Despite everything you may have read or been told about the June full moon, I have the records of stripers from 50 to 70 pounds that prove that more trophy bass are landed in July and August than a few days on either side of what has always been a very productive June full moon. Click Link Below For Full Story

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