Fairhaven 5/7 Report

[lumberjohn]

The early near shore easy pickings, a fish every 15 minutes, is over. The Brownies and Salmon are transitioning deeper, meaning you have to put your time in locating the fish. Brother and I fished 8AM - 3PM. Shot out 8 miles East. Started in 25-40 FOW with temps 42ish. Had a 6 rod spread of 4 & 5 color lead core shallow diver sticks on planner boards outside, deep diving Bandits 80' back flat lines next, downriggers pulling spoons 35-45 behind the ball down 8-15. Nothing worked inside as we moved deeper. First fish a 5 lbs Brown off a purple deep diver Bandit over 45 FOW. Headed deeper and temps cooled into 40ish. First Salmon 12.5 lbs of the season hit the deck off Mag Green Hulk spoon down 40/100. Worked out to 160'. Mostly blank screens, some Laker marks deep. Worked back SW into 60-80' and found pocket of water temps @ 44ish and doubled up immediately. STD 107mm Two Face Dipsey Diver/Blackeyed Peas flasher/spoon out 75' on 2 setting, about 40' down at 2.1 - 2.5 mph brought in a 6 lbs Salmon. Black STD Dipsey, Rodfather Spin Doctor and Blackspoon w/ chrome cup took 14.5 lbs Salmon out 67' maybe 35' down. At docks bumped into DEC, inspected fish. They'd been busy Thursday and nailed two boats, each over limit and each w/o licenses. Those boys looking at some massive fines.

Edited May 8 by lumberjohn
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[GAMBLER]

On 5/8/2026 at 1:21 AM, lumberjohn said:

The early near shore easy pickings, a fish every 15 minutes, is over. The Brownies and Salmon are transitioning deeper, meaning you have to put your time in locating the fish. Brother and I fished 8AM - 3PM. Shot out 8 miles East. Started in 25-40 FOW with temps 42ish. Had a 6 rod spread of 4 & 5 color lead core shallow diver sticks on planner boards outside, deep diving Bandits 80' back flat lines next, downriggers pulling spoons 35-45 behind the ball down 8-15. Nothing worked inside as we moved deeper. First fish a 5 lbs Brown off a purple deep diver Bandit over 45 FOW. Headed deeper and temps cooled into 40ish. First Salmon 12.5 lbs of the season hit the deck off Mag Green Hulk spoon down 40/100. Worked out to 160'. Mostly blank screens, some Laker marks deep. Worked back SW into 60-80' and found pocket of water temps @ 44ish and doubled up immediately. STD 107mm Two Face Dipsey Diver/Blackeyed Peas flasher/spoon out 75' on 2 setting, about 40' down at 2.1 - 2.5 mph brought in a 6 lbs Salmon. Black STD Dipsey, Rodfather Spin Doctor and Blackspoon w/ chrome cup took 14.5 lbs Salmon out 67' maybe 35' down. At docks bumped into DEC, inspected fish. They'd been busy Thursday and nailed two boats, each over limit and each w/o licenses. Those boys looking at some massive fines.

 

 

The fines in NY are a joke.  They will get a light slap on the wrist.......

Edited May 11 by GAMBLER

[Spike_Marx]

Great report! Thanks for all the information. 

[SusanJames]

Thanks for the report Gambler. I found similar on Wednesday outta Hughes. Still plenty of browns around though I did need to slide out to 18' FOW to find them. Frequent enough takes to keep me busy. I poked around in 35 -40" for a while but found nothing. Last pass of the day I had the boat in 18'. Inside board was probably running in 12' over the point just outside of Hughes. Shallow diving Smithwick.....took a nice 5lb coho. Everything else was 2-3lb browns with one 16" steelie.

Edited May 9 by SusanJames
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