April 24, 2024 - 10:56:24
Martha from Surfland told me there have been a few reports of shad but further up the river on the freshwater side in North Andover where a freshwater license is required. There have been no reports from Rocks Village yet. She thinks it will be another week or two before some fresh sea run stripers move into the rivers. With big schools of alewives and shad in the Parker and Merrimack Rivers, it won’t be long before the stripers find them. Surfland is now open seven days a week.
April 22, 2024 - 08:08:25
Martha from Surfland told me there have been a few reports of shad but further up the river on the freshwater side in North Andover where a freshwater license is required. There have been no reports from Rocks Village yet. She thinks it will be another week or two before some fresh sea run stripers move into the rivers. With big schools of alewives and shad in the Parker and Merrimack Rivers, it wont be long before the stripers find them. Surfland is now open seven days a week.
April 15, 2024 - 09:18:07
Martha from Surfland told me they are now open 7 days a week. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The only fishing reports Martha has heard of are the holdover striped bass that are being caught on the freshwater side of the Amelia Earhardt Dam in Boston. There have been reports that alewives have arrived at the Byfield Dam which is a very good sign of things to come. There have been no local reports of shad as of our phone conversation on Sunday, but that could change by next week.
