Thursday August 21, 2014 we headed out to our deep water summer spot almost in the middle of the sound on a nice piece of structure for sea bass. My wife brought some friends and their kids and we had a great day pulling up lots of keeper size and some huge 6+ pound sea bass.
On Friday, we headed out early to Handkerchief shoal to live line eels. We probably missed the eel bite at Handkerchief and didn’t see anyone who was snapping wire line hook up either. After a few hours of nothing (and watching no one else hook into a striper) we decided to salvage the day and go sea bass fishing in Nantucket Sound. I am glad we left because we went back to our deep water spot and we pulled up some big sea bass again.
For Saturday, we figured we would round out the weekend trying for fluke and sea bass. It was blowing 15 knots but we weren’t going to let that stop us. With only my wife on board, we stopped right out in front of the Bass River (about 1 1/2 miles out) to see about some fluke. After a few drifts we landed a couple of decent size keeper fluke (18-19 inches). We didn’t break any records but they were nice to put in the box. We then decided to brave the wind and go back to our deep water spot in the sound. This was our best day as all of our 8 keeper sea bass were 4-6 lbs. We were only out a total of 3 hours because the sky got dark and some rain moved in and we got soaked.
It was great to go out in late August and get such good size sea bass. We have been using several different lure set ups from Shimano Lucanus Jigs to Thundermist Lure Viper spoons, to simple fluke rigs all tipped with strip or whole squid.
I’m looking forward to getting out very soon for some bluefin tuna as that bite is getting hot out east of Chatham.
Jim, what size boat do you have for fishing Nantucket Sound? It gets pretty windy out there.
I think at least a 21 foot minimum