Tautog are taking green crabs on rigs and jigs, schoolie stripers are packed into the rivers and marshes, and trout and bass put on the feed bag in the ponds.
Tautog fishing picks up in Buzzards Bay and around the Elizabeths, bass and bluefish gorge on sand eels in Cape Cod Bay, and schools of albies and bonito begin to thin out.
While Rapala minnows own a healthy share of the real estate in freshwater fishermen’s tackle boxes, in the plug bags of Northeast surfcasters, it’s relatively rare to find one. You do see plenty of Lauri Rapala’s influence, however. In 1936, Lauri Rapala, working with cork, foil from a chocolate bar, and melted photographic negatives, created
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As the water warms and baitfish arrive, the bass start looking upward, and fishermen can celebrate the new season with some light-tackle topwater schoolies.