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Cape Cod Fishing Expeditions
Fishing Report
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December 29,
2011
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| A cloudy windy rainy day kept
us close to home today but Jose found us fish
cast at. It was extremely challenging and
we did not do well in the catching
department. We still saw fish and had
fun. |
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December 28,
2011
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| Back to Bonefish
U. |
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December 27,
2011
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| We chased tapron in the ocean
surf in the morning and then headed for pods of
breaking jack crevalle. It was a like a
bluefish blitz. There were also permit,
cobia and sharks swimming
by. |
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December 26,
2011
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| We had a great day chasing
all kinds of fish and ended the day at a
location I call Bonefish University. It
was a huge super shallow bay loaded with
cruising bonefish. You had to be on you A
game here. Loads of shots and loads of
fun. |
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December 24,
2011
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| Everybody loves a permit on
the fly. We saw lots of fish today, many
different species. |
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December 23,
2011
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| Ascension Bay
is one of the greatest places to fish on earth
as well as one of the most challengin.
Fortunately for me, I get to fish with the best
guide on the Bay, my friend,
Jose Enrique Ucan
Briceno. Let me know if you want to
go and I will get you in touch with
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November 23-27,
2011
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| Headed down
to fish the Padre
Island National Seashore in Texas. Didnt
have much time as I would have liked but
I did well
with time I had. I spent most of my time
at the Mansfield Cut. There was a hug
school of finger mullet wrapped around the
jetty and the fish were pounding on them.
I hooked a big kingfish and a big jack crevalle
and had a number of breakoffs. This is a
fantastic location with a wide variety of
fish. I will be heading back for a longer
trip next year. |
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October,
2011
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| October fishing was hot and
cold. Night fishing produced the most
consistent catches. Flats and kayak
fishing were a crapshoot. Some days the
kayak fishing was lights out, jigging for
suspended fish. Other days were
barren. Down by the canal fishing was hot
through October and into
November. |
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September 27,
2011
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| Headed back out to the flats
where all the action was happening and found
similar conditions with finicky fish.
They did not want the fly but did want fresh
sand eels. |
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September 26,
2011
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| Finally got someone to head
out at the right time and we found fish.
Unfortunately the fish seemed to have lockjaw
and would not take a fly. It was a case
of too much bait and not enough fish.
Bait fishing with sand eels would have been the
ticket. |
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September 25,
2011
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| So the previous day's angler
was booked for today as well but
cancelled. Not cool actually. I
went out solo at the proper time and ran into
piles of feeding fish in shallow water.
The fish were extremely finicky but they were
there and I hooked up a number of times.
Some of the fish were large. |
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September 24,
2011
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| Same angler, same story, did
not want to fish when I told him to. We
did a great kayak trip and covered alot of
ground but only saw about a half a dozen fish
that were running scared. Why dont people
listen to me? |
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September 23,
2011
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| The angler did not want to
fish the recommended times and paid the
price. We should have fished in the dark
but we didnt and we bascially did the grand
tour on the outer cape and came up empty aside
from a couple of mackerel. |
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September 17,
2011
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| Double shifted today and got
blanked on both charters. That
sucks. The fish were everywhere
yesterday. |
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September 16,
2011
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| Massive blitz on the outer
beaches in the big wind. |
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September 9-12,
2011
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| It should have been lights
out on this set of tides but like the stripers
have been known to do they changed the rules of
the game. I fished 4 predawn tides and
only came up with a few fish each day and not
the epic moon tide action I
expected. |
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September 3,
2011
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| Had a great trip today with
Mike and Luis. We kayak fished and 8 year
old Luis scored himself a couple of nice
stripers. Dad got in on the action as
well. |
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August 29,
2011
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| Even thought the river came
up a little and was a little muddy we still had
a great day of hopper fishing. Anyone
interested in a classic Wyoming or Montana
trout fishing adventure should contact my
friend Russ Elwell at 406-223-5944 or email
at russellelwell@gmail.com |
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August 28,
2011
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| Today we hiked up into
Calark's Canyon and scored trout everywhere we
fished. More epic scenery and
fishing. Then we jumped back in the raft
and spent the rest of the afternoon pounding on
fish all the way back to
camp. |
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August 27,
2011
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| Epic hopper fishing
today! The river was packed
full of hungry trout that slammed hoppers all
day long. Peter scored a Yellowstone
Grand Slam: rainbow, cutthroat, brown and
brook trout. The weather was perfect and
the food was great too! |
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August 26,
2011
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| Arrived at base camp
today. We set up near the mouth of
Clark's Canyon on the banks of the Clark's Fork
of the Yellowsone River. Epic camp
location and views. We will hit it hard
tomorrow. |
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August 23,
2011
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| This Friday I'll be
heading to
fish the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone River
with my guiding buddy Russ Elwell until next
Wednesday. Back in action for the
beginning of the late summer/fall season after
that. |
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August 21,
2011
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Finally found some fish
to play with today. Headed out to an
old faithful kayak fishing spot and
the fish were there. Nothing huge but
lots of pissed off schoolies that
readily hit sluggos on light spinning
gear.
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August 20 ,
2011
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| Did a scouting trip to the
flats today to see what was happening and found
a number of fish cruising the
shallows. We had a few shots
and follows but no
hookups. |
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August 14,
2011
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| No fishing today
either. Andrew I are at the Indy Car Race
at NH Motor Speedway.
Sweet. |
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August 13 ,
2011
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| No fishing today.
Andrew and I watching the Thunderbirds today at
Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth, NH. Epic
show! |
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August 8,
2011
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| Tuna trip was cancelled today
due to weather. |
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August 7,
2011
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| Night fishing is the best
option right now but nobody wants to go!
Nothing spectacular is happening out there yet
but there are fish to catch. It's all
about doing what it takes to catch
them. |
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August 6,
2011
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Good conditions but no
fish today. August flats fishing is
not the best bet but the guys wanted to
go. We catch some small mackerel and
saw loads of bait on the incoming tide but
no fish on them. It was a frustrating
day for sure.
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August 5,
2011
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| Speaking of anglers that will
do what it takes to catch fish, Coach Gorski
and I headed out predawn in kayaks in search of
stripers today. After trying a couple of
locations we made the move to the consistent
spot of the season and pounded on stripers up
to 35 inches. |
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July 24,
2011
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| Cancelled trip today due to
wind conditions. |
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July 23,
2011
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| We had every intention of
having an epic day of flats fishing today but
mutha nature wasn't having any of that.
We paddled out to our location only to have to
run away from thunder and lighting. We
did gt one fish on the retreat
paddle. |
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July 22,
2011
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| We did our best attempting a
flats fishing trip today but the conditions
were a little too advanced
for my rookie fly
anglers. We did see fish and had shots
but no takers. We worked on casting
techniques, general flats fishing theory and
told lots of stories! |
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July 17,
2011
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| Had a great day of kayak
fishing wit Frederickson clan. We caught
a pile of schoolies up to 27
inches. |
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July 15,16
2011
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| Conditions changed for the
worse these 2 days and few fish were
caught. |
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July 14,
2011
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| A late inning rally saved the
day of kayak fishing with young anglers Stephen
and Tyler. Just as we thought we were
going to get blanked and blitz started and
everyone caught fish. |
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July 13,
2011
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| It was an epic day of flats
fishing. We ran into piles of fish at
dawn and stayed on the fish for the entire
charter. We sight fished
for stripers up to 40 inches. It was
non stop action. We wish everyday was
like this! |
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July 10,
2011
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| Kayak fishing was great
today. Everyone got fish and we took one
to eat! |
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July 9,
2011
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| Attempted a mid day flats
fishing trip and didn't see a thing. It
was a beautiful day but the fish were not
there. |
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July 4,
2011
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| The father son team of Mike
and Ross ripped it up on Freedom Hawk
Kayaks
today. It was a "numbers" day as Ross
caught over 20 fish and his dad Mike was in
double digits with some fly rod fish. The
biggest fish was 29 inches and was eaten.
Yum. |
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July 2,
2011
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| Finally!!! An epic day
on the flats. Kenny Mendez hit the
jackpot today. It was flat calm and we
found a pile of tailing stripers in super
shallow water. This was the day
every flats angler dreams
of. |
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July 1,
2011
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| Things picked up a little
today. We had a brief early morning
encounter with a nice pile of fish on a dark
flat that yielded a fat 40+inch striper on
light spinning tackle and also got one on the
fly. We had many shots. The end of
the trip was slow, we saw sporadic fish on the
incoming tide but no hook
ups. |
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June 30,
2011
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| Another rough day on the
water. We attempted an afternoon flats
fishing trip to a prime location that
wasnt so prime that day. We didnt
have the best conditions to work with
and we gave it out best shot but it wasnt to be
today. |
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June 29,
2011
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Back
on the Cape for a night surf
fishing trip only to get
blanked. We fished long and hard to
no avail. They were not there.
The report from the other beach locations
were slow as well.
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June 26,
2011
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| Another hard day of streamer
fishing with only a few fish. The
highlight of the day was a pocket of rising
Grayling. Veteran angler Elwin Schutt
landed a couple on a dry
fly. |
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June 25,
2011
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| We streamer fished down into
the deep water and managed a couple of nice
browns and some whitefish. The weather
and food was great! |
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June 24,
2011
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| Drifted the Big Hole River in
Montana today. River was high but life
was good. We did manage to not get
skunked but it was a tough day fishing.
There was still a pile of snow in the mountains
and it looks like the water will be high for a
while on some rivers. Get with my guide
buddy Russ Elwell for spring creek and lake
fishing options. |
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June 19,
2011
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| Had a great Father's Day
Charter with Ron and Kai Sweeten and my son
Andrew. We hit a blitz on the
edge of the flats and got a bunch of schoolies
on sluggos. Everyone had
fun. |
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June 18,
2011
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| The fish were on the flats
again today but with the fast moving tide they
were difficult to stay on. |
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June 17,
2011
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| Finally had a decent day
flats fishing. We got a handful of fish
in shallow water on sluggos and
flies. |
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June 16,
2011
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| Even though the weather was
beautiful today, the fish decided they had
lockjaw. We got one strike all day.
The entire charter fleet had a difficult day
with the wire line jiggers even coming up
empty. They could see piles of fish on
the fishfinder but couldnt get them to
eat. |
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June 15,
2011
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| Headed out with Cape Cod
living legend Dave Townsend today and finally
got a break in the weather. We found a
number of nice schools finning on the surface
in the late afternoon. |
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June 14,
2011
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| Cancelled the morning trip
and reschedule for a night mission. We
had a nice school of fish come by early and we
managed a couple of nice fish from that pod and
then nothing. |
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June 13,
2011
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| Headed out with the hopes
epic early morning tide action today in the
crap weather and got blanked. Ouch.
TONS of bait but no fish anywhere. So
much for the 0200 start time. We even hit
the outer beaches to try and find them and
still had no luck. I did an afternoon
kayak charter and saw a bunch of fish but again
had difficulty because of wind and
clouds. |
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June 12,
2011
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| More crap
weather. Attempted to fish the
flats in
kayaks today and got blown out. We did
see piles of fish but had difficulty staying on
them in the kayak. We did manage a couple
of nice fish but is was a grind out there
today. |
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June 11,
2011
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| Looks like we are in for a
long week of crap weather. Headed out to
attempt a day of sight fishin on the
flats. It was a long day with little
reward. Everyone got a fish, but BFD, we
wanted more. |
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June 5,
2011
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| You gotta love it when the
fish are where they are supposed to be.
We had a great day catching schoolies on flies
and sluggos from the Freedom Hawk
Kayaks. |
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June 4,
2011
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| Found the kayak fishing
school that we pounded on all week again.
Got fish up to 30 inches. The last one
was yummy! |
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June 3,
2011
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| So I took a day off to sleep,
sue me! |
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June 2,
2011
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| Went to the same location as
yesterday only to find the fish seemed to have
moved on. It was a beautiful morning and
we did get some fish so all was not
lost. |
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June 1,
2011
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| Tailing fish on the flats
before dawn was the scene today. It was a
great sight, however the fish were once again
finicky although we did mange to hook up a few
times. Sight fishing on the incoming tide
was good for sighting but proved to be a little
difficult in the catching
department. |
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May 31,
2011
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| Another epic morning of kayak
fishing with Coach Gorski. We pounded on
fat stripers all morning. Check out
Coach's sunrise bass in the
pic. |
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May 30,
2011
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| Sight fishing on the flats
today was good. We saw way more fish than
we caught but did manage to hook up.
Remember that sight fishing for stripers is for
sure the most difficult but most rewarding way
to fish for them. |
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May 29,
2011
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| More great kayak
fishing. Same spot. Same
action. All good. |
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May 28,
2011
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| Kayak fishing was great
today. We stayed on top of a sweet
spot loaded with stripers up to 30 inches
today. Surface action with Sluggos was
the ticket. |
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May 27,
2011
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| Epic school of fish on the
flats this afternoon. There were a few
hundred fish in the
school. They were super picky but I
got a nice 40 inch and 38 inch fish to take a
sand eel pattern. |
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May 17,
2011
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| Naturally, I went back to
where the fish are. My friend Bill
Corrigan and I hit the water at 0300 and
headed out to drain off where we found fish
tailing and popping everywhere. They were
keyed in on baby sand eels and we did well with
typical sand eel patterns. After the tide
turned we got some nice fish on sluggos on the
surface. |
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May 16,
2011
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| I woke up this morning at
0100 to pouring rain but I knew today was the
day that I would finally satisfy my jones to
feel something big pulling on my line. I
met my clients at the launching spot at 0200
and they wimped out because it was
raining! Bad move on their part! I
found fish in all the places I expected to and
the average size of the fish was 25 to 35
inches. Sweet, right? I was on the
water for 10 hours and caught fish throughout
the day. It was epic with the bass
exploding on surface baits. |
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May 14,
2011
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| I got word that the canal was
hot so I walked the service road with my son
Andrew and got a few strikes on a needle fish
but no hookups. We saw schools of bass
moving through but most were out of
range. It was great to see life in the
salt water
again. |
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May 1,
2011
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| With no fish in the salt and
a windy day I decided to hit the fresh water
for some largemouth bass action. So I
headed back to the pond I
checked out last
night in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak and did well on
powerworms. |
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April 30,
2011
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| I got on the Cape late today
so I decided to check out the action in the
local ponds in my Freedom Hawk Kayak before it
got dark. I found a pile of warmwater
species to have fun with. |
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April 23,
2011
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| The
season officially opened with a kayak
trip with Coach Gorski. We gave it all we
got on a cold windy day but came up
empty. It was still great to be back on
the water. |
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December 27,
2010
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| Last day on the water in
Ascension Bay and it was
epic. We got another permit,
about a dozen snook, barracuda and a bunch of
yummy cubera snapper. |
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December 26,
2010
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Another epic day of snook
and bonefish. We even scored a doubel
snook from the boat. Life is
good.
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December 25,
2010
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| This morning was cloudy and
windy so we stayed close to Punta Allen today
and pounded on the local school of lady fish on
surface poppers to get our numbers up. We
probably caught 25 a piece. We went out
to the reef to see if anything was lurking
around there and ran the shoreline and picked
up some bonefish and snook. |
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December 24,
2010
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| Today we chased tarpon in the
backcountry. It was a beautiful day with
lots of tarpon seen and only a few
caught. They werent feeding like we had
hoped but it was still awesome to see the fish
in the shallows. I also scored a big cuda
on the light spinning rod. |
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December 23
2010
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| First day on the water saw
was great. Both Peter and I had each
landed a permit on the fly before 10 am.
Now we can relax and enjoy the day. The
rest of the day we scored lots of snook and
bonefish. I scored my biggest snook
yet. |
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December 22,
2010
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| Finally made it to Punta
Allen. The Punta Allen road was trashed
and in its worst condition that I have
witnessed. It appeared the road grater
was working its way slowly south towards Punta
Allen but it looked slow
going. |
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December 21,
2010
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| We escaped the Boston snowstorm to head
down to our favorite tropical fishing
destination in Punta Allen, Mexico. Breezed
through the Cancun airport and headed down to
our debriefing location in Tulum to work on a
base tan and get on island time. |
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September 5,
2010
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| Today we floated a section to
the south of where we were yesterday. The
fishing and scenery was
fantastic. |
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September 4,
2010
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| We ran one of the most
classic scenic river stretches in the world
today. The homerun float on the Snake
River in the shadow of the Tetons in Grans
Teton National Park. We caught nice sized
cuthroats on big dry flies and enjoyed fishing
from a boat for a change of
pace. |
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September 3,
2010
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| Today we rode out of the
Teton Wilderness to base out of Jackson Hole
for a trip on the Snake River in the
morning. |
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September 2,
2010
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| The weather cleared and we
went back up to the lake we got the big ones at
and had a fantastic day of catching big
cuthroat in the sun. I t was
epic. |
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September 1,
2010
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| We were hit by snow and rain storm that
took all the fun out fo the fishing for the day
however it didnt stop us from taking a ride
into the high country to check out the
spectacular surrounding painted by the
weather. |
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August 31,
2010
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| Today we took the horses up
to where the big fish live and scored some
beautiful cuthroat trout on ultralight spinng
tackle and flies. The setting was
spectacular. A classic high mountain lake
scenario with loads of big
trout. |
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August 30,
2010
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| Today we fished the local
creek and did well with the small brook
trout. The weather was cold and it went
form a sunny day to a
snowstorm. |
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August 29,
2010
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| Rode into the Teton
Wilderness on horseback to our base camp.
We explored the creek that ran by camp and
found plenty of small brook trout that liked
our dry flies. |
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August 28,
2010
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| Headed out to Wyoming to take
horses into the Teton Wilderness with Russ
Elwell. |
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August 20,21,
2010
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| We fished with Captain Ramon
on the Close Enough for a couple of days
and had great action for bass and
blues. |
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August 12,
2010
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| After a slow start in the
kayaks we spotted a cloud of birds on the
shoreline and found a massive school of
bluefish the had the
blitz bait
of the season, baby ocean herring, pinned
up on the sandbars. It was epic
popper fishng with fly rods for angry
bluefish. |
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July 23,
2010
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| Jose and Lily were up from
Punta Allen, Mexico and we fished the early
morning flats with Chris frm Fishng the
Cape. We fished a number of locations and
found tailing fish and fish in the shallow
channels and had shots at large stripers on the
flats later in the day. |
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July 26,
2010
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| Another great day of kayak
fishing with Coach Gorski. The catching
wasnt as good as usual. |
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July 23,
2010
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| Inshore kayak fishing was good today. |
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July 14,
2010
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| More fly fishing on the
flats. Not the best day of the season but
we didnt get skunked. |
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July 12,
2010
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| After a slow start we got a nice run of
fish on the incoming tide and with the help f
the Freedom Hawk Kayaks we were able to stay on
the fish. |
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July 8,
2010
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| Had an epic offshore trip in
the Freedom Hawk Kayaks with Scott and
Dan. We got a bunch of nice fish on
sluggos and plugs. |
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July 7,
2010
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| We had a kayak fishing
flotilla out there today and everyone caught
fish with the little man getting the big
fish. |
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July 5,
2010
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| Let the night time beach
fishing begin. We had a great night fly
fishing on the beach. |
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July 4,
2010
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| Another good day on the
Freedom Hawks, spin and fly
fishing. |
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July 3,
2010
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| Had a great day of inshore
and flats fishing in the Freedom Hawk
Kayaks. |
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June 26,
2010
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| More inshore action with the
Freedom Hawk Kayaks. |
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June 25,
2010
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| It was a great offshore trip
in the Freedom Hawk Kayak on a calm day.
We scored lots of nice bass on sluggos on the
surface. |
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June 23,
2010
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| Fishing from the Freedom
Hawks was good today. |
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June 19,
2010
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| Daniel Zatta was the man
today catchnig stripers from a kayak for the
first time. |
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June 13,
2010
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| He shoots, he scores!
Another ocean herring and striper blitz hit the
beach again this moring and we were
there. |
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June 12,
2010
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| JB had a great moring on a
Freedom Hawk Kayak fly fishng for
stripers. |
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June 11,
2010
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| Another day with Dave and
more fish for everyone. |
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June 10,
2010
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| Fished with local legend Dave
Townsend and pounded on scattered schools of
schoolie bass. |
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June 9,
2010
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| Always a great day on the
water with Coach Gorski whether we catchem or
not. Today we were catching
them. |
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June 8,
2010
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| Had a great night on the
flats in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. |
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June 5,
2010
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| Boo Ya! After a failed
attemp to fish a flats
location due to thunderstorms we
regrouped and hit the outer beaches and hit the
jackpot. We got to the beach and within a
few minutes we
watched a massive school of huge
bass pin a massive school of
baby ocean herring on the shoreline that
exploded into a once in lifetime beach
blitz. The blitz lasted all day and there
was fun had by all. |
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June 4,
2010
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| Another beautiful weather and
conditions day with slow catching. We saw
loads of bait moving across the flats and were
able to catch some fish, bass and
blues, on the channel edges
but on the whole it was a slow
day. |
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May 30,
2010
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| Thanks to a late inning rally
we had a great end to failry slow day of
sightfishing on the flats.
In the last hour we
encoutered some nice pods of fish in shallow
water. They were spooky but catchable if
you're good. |
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May 29,
2010
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| It was another hard day on
the water where we had fantastic conditions but
not alot of fish. Again, we still caught
fish but nothing notable. |
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May 28,
2010
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| Made a predawn assault on a
classic flats location and had some great
action at the bottom of the tide then things
slowed down and we were able to find fish but
nothing spectacular. The weather and
conditions were perfect but the biomass was
elsewhere. |
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May 27,
2010
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| Great early season fly
fishing action from the Freedom Hawk
Kayaks. |
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May 23,
2010
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| Ocean fishing was in order
today as the word was that there were fish
surrounding the outer cape. As soon as we
got on the water we saw working birds off in
the distance and within 20 minutes were into
fish. The fish were keyed in on small
baitfish and didnt crush the sluggos as
expected so I broke out the fly rod on my
Freedom Hawk Kayak and scored a pile of fish up
to 36 inches. There were acres of bass
slurping these little baitfish all over.
I also score my first bluefish of the season
and it was an angry 10 plus
punder. |
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May 22,
2010
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| Peter and I kayak fished
today at the edge of some flats and secret
local spot accessible only by
kayak and scored a pile of fish on,
what else, the good ol sluggo. We were
treated to violent acrobatic surface
strikes. These fresh fish were
pissed! |
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May 16,
2010
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Met Jason and 3
friends Jason, Bob and Matt at Ocean
Edge and drove to the
flats.
Hiked out
to the edge and scored quickly with a
number of fish from 12 to 36
inches landed among the 4
anglers.
Jason
scored a nice 35-40 inch class fish on a
Bob Mahoney epoxy sand eel
special.
Action
died just at lo tide as expected and we
worked our
way to
look for
possible pods on the
beach.
Boat
passing by alerted us to fish down the
beach so we
relocated and scored scoolies up
to 25 inches.
Epic
moments throughout the
day.
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May 15,
2010
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| My first epic moments
of the season. Paddled to a
favorite location and found classic birds
over bass. I caught many fish in
the 28 to 34 inch class on sluggos.
The fish were aggressively hitting on the
surface with some fish somersaulting
through the air. It was hard work
out there as each fish would take about 5
to 10 minutes to release and that meant I
was pushed away from the school by the
wind so I would have to paddle back
into the fish hookup, go for a ride and
do it all over again.
Bliss. |
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May 14,
2010
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| Today was windy but I
wasnt gonna sit on my ass! I
lauched from the beach in my kayak and
battled wind and wave to score a fat
keeper on a sluggo. I chased birds
but could never get to them in time with
the conditions. At least I didn't
get skunked again! |
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May 13,
2010
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| Well it goes to show
you every tide is different. I
headed out a 0300 with Chad in kayaks on
a cold morning. The tide was right
but the fish decided to do something
diffrerent today and we got
skunked.
Horrifying. |
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May 12,
2010
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| Headed out to do some
scouting for tomorrow's charter on the
evening tide and managed to find a
handful of schoolies on the fly. I
even saw a small pod tailing.
Feeling good about
tomorrow. |
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May 1-2,
2010
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Peter
and I fished hard over the weekend and
managed to find some fish but
the weather was not very
cooperative. Peter missed a nice
fish on the fly and some
keeper bass were taken
next to us on topwater plugs. We
fished in 30 mph winds on the flats and
managed to score a bunch of nice fish in
the narrow window we had access to the
fish. It was epic for about an
hour. There were lots of
birds over stripers chasing
sandeels. I also got reports that
there are fish everywhere on the Cape
now. This upcoming new moon should be
epic.
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April 26,
2010
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On
the hunt for striper number 500 with Coach
Gorski. We fished the sunrise at one
location and came up empty. We
decided to change things up and head into a
salt pond to see if anything is kicking
around. Headed to a pond the Coach
scouted the day before and got a bunch of
schoolies. It wasnt long after we got
there that we hooked up. Coach got is
number 500! Congrats Coach! The
irony of the situation was that 500 was
probably the smallest fish that I have seen
Coach catch! Anyway we got a couple
of more fish, all were holdover schoolies
averaging 12 to 16
inches.
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April 24,
2010
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| Had a wading charter with
Matt from Boston today. Tragically the
fish werent here yet. We fished all the
usual first arrival spots and came up
empty. We did see the herring running but
no bass yet. |
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March 20,
2010
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| Fished the freshwater with
Coach Gorski for the first trip of 2010.
It was a beautiful day and we fished two
different bodies of water, but the fish had
lockjaw and we only got a couple of small
largemouth bass. The water needs to warm
up just a little more. |
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December 26-31,
2009
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| Headed down to Ascension Bay
in Mexico for a week of fishing with our buddy
Jose out of Punta Allen. We fished 5 days
straight and had many epic moments.
I got
a super slam (bonefish,permit,tarpon and a
snook) on the fly in 3 hours one day. We
were surrounded by schools of all the super
slam species all day. It was surreal.
Another
highlight of the trip was Peter
Courossi scoring his first
Permit on the fly. It was an epic stalk
from the shore. What a way to end the
trip! |
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Late Septmember,
October, November
Report
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| Truth
be told, late season 2009 wasnt all it
should have been. The weather patterns
for the fall season were terrible. I
cancelled a number of charters due to
weather and all the offshore charters
were cancelled. In addition to the bad
weather it was hard to find the fish on
the good days. Hopefully we get better
weather patterns in 2010. On a positive
note, the freshwater fishing was great
this fall. |
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September
14-20,2009
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| The
fishing has been inconsistent for the
week. The fish are around but it has been
difficult to get a read on any consistent
patterns. The usual locations are giving
up fish occasionally. There was a
fantastic morning of beach fishing with fish up
to 30lbs. The next day, same place, same
time, and nothin'! Where did they all
go!? Shannon from upstate NY came out for
some fly fishing on Sunday. We ran the
beach looking for signs of fish and missed a
bluefish blitz by 20 minutes! Crap!
After deciding that the beach wasnt going to
give it up we headed to the flats. It was
a beautiful scene with lots of terns and
sandeels on the flat but still no fish.
Thankfully we had a late inning rally and
Shannon was able to score her first striper on
the fly. She got another one and missed
2. |
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September
13,2009
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| Finally off to go tuna
fishing again and once again were struck
by bad luck. We had 7 lines out
with breaking tuna in front of the boat
and the engines cut out suddenly.
This couldnt be good and it wasnt.
We snagged a large pice of dragger net
that one of the draggers left
behind. We try again on
Friday. |
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September
12,2009
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| Cancelled the thursday
overnight charter due to weather.
Bogus. Fortunately, I got a call
from Captain Eddy on Reel Attitude to
work a striper/bluefish charter. It
was the first time out in a while
and we didnt know what to expect but we
hit the jackpot and boated a northeast
super slam of a bonito, false albacore,
striper and bluefish. It was a
great day with breaking fish and everyone
caught fish. |
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September
6,2009
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| Turned back
again! We gave it a shot but the
ocean kept getting worse and about 15
miles out Capt Eddie turned it around and
headed home. |
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September
4-5,2009
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| Matt came out and we
fished long and hard in the kayaks early
in the morning with little reward.
After a short break we changed location
and got back in the kayaks. We hit
the jackpot. We ran into a school of
medium size blues and found some small
striper in the first hour and then the
wind went calm and the fish came to the
surface and we pounded on stripers up to
30" on flies and sluggos. It was
epic. We got back in the dark and
crashed. You know we headed right
back out there the next day but the fish
no showed. That sucks, right?
It was still a classic day of hanging out
in a kayak on Cape Cod
Bay. |
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August
24-30,2009
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| All of my off shore
trips on Reel Attitude were cancelled due
to ocean conditions this week. What
a drag! I did manage to get a day
of kayak fishing in and fished long and
hard for 2 fish but they were
quality fish. Patterns are changing
and the fish are moving
around. |
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August
23-24,2009
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| Jason was down for his
annual fishing marathon and he must have
been wearing his fish repellent because
we got blanked in three different back to
back locations. Jason
did catch some trophy bait as you
can see. |
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August
20,2009
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Had a kayak charter
with Chris Remillard from Granby and
it was shockingly slow for kayak
fishing. There was bait around but no
fish showing on the surface. I had to
good strikes jigging but that was it.
We changed locations and Chris
finally got a striper and we got the
pictures to prove it. Even thought
the fishing sucked the kayaking and
weather was awesome. Going to fish
the overnight
tonight.
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August
19,2009
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Today was the most
incredible day of bluefin tuna I have
seen yet. Naturally I was fishing
with Captain Eddy on Reel Attitude.
We hooked 9 bluefin and landed and
released to and had one break the
leader. The other fish came off
because we got four fish on at once
one time and multiple hookups the
other times. There were breaking tuna
like breaking tuna and bass all
morning. It was incredible. I shot
some video that I post on youtube
soon.
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August
16,2009
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Ephrain Ruiz from
Duxbury fished the beach and flats
with me today. We had an exciting
start with a bluefish blitz on the
beach but nce the sun came up the
fishing died. Again, this time of
year it is most productive to fish
nights or from the
kayak.
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August
15,2009
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It was a sad on the
water as today was Coach Gorksi's
last fishing day on the Cape for the
summer. We had a great morning of big
bass and bluefish. A fitting way to
send Coach off. See you in
November!
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August
12,2009
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My friends Jose and
Lily from Punta Allen, Mexico came up
to fish. They operate a lodge on
Ascension Bay that everyone should go
to. We kayak fished and scored so big
fat bass on sluggos fished on the
surface. I didn't forget the camera
this time.
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August
11,2009
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What a day to
forget the camera! I fished with Capt
Eddy on Reel Attitude and smoked em
today. We landed 3 bluefin tuna, 56,
66, 67 inches in under 4 hours. It
was an epic day. I will post the pics
when I get them from Captain Eddy. If
you want tuna you need to fish with
Captain Eddy.
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August
10,2009
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Had a good kayak
charter with Terry Blackburn. Terry
tried out the Freedom Hawk Kayak for
the day and really like it. We got
som ebig blues and a couple of nice
bass.
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August
8,2009
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Did a bird watching
charter with my mom and aunt Bev. She
was hoping to see some arctic terns
mixed in with the pile of common
terns out here. We didn't see and
arcitc terns but we did see some
roseate turns and plenty least
terns.
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August
1,2009
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Fished with my
buddy David Muller, Peter and Andrew
Courossi off Nantucket and shockingly
had a slow day. The usual spots were
barren and we could access the side
of the island that had the fish
because of high seas. We did manage
to pop some bluefish in the rip ar
Great Point.
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July
28,2009
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Had a day at the
beach charter with my parents and
friends. At a yummy clam bake
prepared at Mac's Seafood in
Truro.
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July
27,2009
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Coach and Joe
Bertuzzi headed out with me to one of
our favorite harbors for some striper
action and again the day time fishing
was slow. We managed to pick up a
fish here and there but it was tough.
On the incoming tide a pile of big
fish rolled in on some flats but the
wind was cranking against the current
and it was challenging to set up on
the fish. It was good to see fish in
the shallows. Joey B shot some video
for his upcoming new video series for
youths and caught his first striper
ever.
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July
26,2009
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Another
disappointing day on the flats. We
covered alot of beautiful water
today. But the day was lacking the
main ingredient...fish. The summer
doldrums seem to have set in. This
time of year the most productive
fishing will be from a kayak or
fishing at night.
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July
25,2009
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Fished as a mate on
a private boat out of Outermost in
Chatham. We cruised all over Monomoy
on the inside and found no fish and
headed out to Point Rip but the rips
were a little too intense for the
crowd and we didnt get to put much
time into actually
fishing.
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July
22,2009
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| Today was probably one
of the more disappointing days of the
season. Just goes to show you, just
when you think you have them figured out
they change the rules of the game.
The only highlight of the morning charter
was Dan getting his first striper on the
fly. The evening charter with Ladd and
Laddie Thorne turned out to be a complete
bust and we were skunked. The
weather was beautiful and I always enjoy
Ladd's company but the fish no showed and
we covered alot of previously fertile
ground. Back in the kayak
tomorrow. |
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July
21,2009
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| Morning charter
cancelled so I went offshore in the kayak
again and scored a pile of big bass and
bluefish. It was epic. It
rained for most of the morning but the
fished were there. I was sight
fishing the entire time. Some of
the bass were in the 40 inch class and
the bluefish weru up to 35
inches. |
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July
20,2009
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| Today was offshore
kayak fishing day with Scott and Dan and
we scored some nice stripers in the 30 to
40 inch class on sluggos and polish sand
eels. The bass were feeding on sand
eels and peanut bunker and were showing
on the surface. We hooked some
large fish and were cut off by reckless
boaters trolling over our lines. It
was a great day on the water
regardless. |
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July
19,2009
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| I scouted a shallow
water night fishery and found loads and
loads of schoolie sized stripers up to 26
inches. They were gorging on sand
eels in less than 12 inches of
water. It was
epic. |
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July
16,2009
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| Scott and Dan
Schlessman showed up for their annual
assualt on the Northeast and we fished
long and hard at one of the hottest spots
recently and tragically we only came up
with 2 small fish. I did hook a
large fish when we first arrived and we
had a few whacks but it wasn't to
be. |
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July
8,2009
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| Today we went shark
fishing with Capt Eddy. Its great
when catching bait is almost as fun as
catching a shark. We scored a pile
of blues for bait and a bunch of
stripers. They were blitzing the
surface and we were able to cast to them
on light tackle and troll umbrella
rigs. Then we headed to the shark
fishing grounds and set out a rancid
slick rotten goodness to attract a shark,
and sure enough a big 9 foot blue shark
found its way on to one of our
hooks. We trolled for tuna on the
way home to no avail but we did see
tuna breaking off in the
distance. |
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July
7,2009
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| Fished with Capt Eddie
again today and we were 1 of only 3 boats
in the fleet that landed a fat tuna
today. Bottom line is Capt Eddie is
the man! If you have ever thought
of fishing for tuna or other offshore
fish you need to book a charter with him
ASAP. |
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July
6,2009
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| My first trip of the
season with Capt Eddie Carreira on the
Reel Attitude was epic. We ran 120
miles to the offshore canyons and scored
huge on yellowfin hooking 30 tuna with
multiple hookups. Check out the
pics. |
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July
5,2009
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| Back on the attack out
on the Cape. A kayak charter this
afternoon proved to be disappointing with
only a few small stripers caught. Where
did all the fishies go? At least we
didnt get skunked and the weather was
beautiful. |
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July
3,2009
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| We finished up our epic
week of fishing in Montana on the
Yellowstone River. Unfortunately we
just missed the epic fishing on the river
the bugs just started exploding and the
river needed to come down a little bit
more. We still managed to dredge
up a couple of acrobatic rainbows
and a nice brown. |
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July
2,2009
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| Our last day on the Big
Hole was awesome as expected. We
whacked plenty of browns and
rainbows on dry flies. This never
gets old. The scenery was
spectacular as usual with plenty of
wildlife and sweeping views of classic
Montana mountain landscapes.
Tomorrow we fish the Yellowstone
River. |
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July
1,2009
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| Another epic day with
more browns and rainbows on dry
flies. We hit the weather jackpot
this week and conditions remain
spectacular on the Big Hole. In
addition to the great fishing the scenery
and wildlife have been incredible.
We saw a bull moose, bull elk, bald
eagles, and a big whitetail buck.
More of this drudgery
tomorrow. |
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June
30,2009
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| After a
slow and buggy start things turned around for
us and we ended up with another epic day of
trout fishing. The weather was perfect
again and we got more nice browns and
rainbows on dry flies and
streamers. |
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June
29,2009
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| Another epic day of dry
fly fishing on the Big Hole. Dry or
Die! |
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June
28,2009
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| The first day of our
annual Montana trout fishing adventure
with Peter Courossi and Russell
Elwell was fantastic. The
weather was perfect and we had browns and
rainbows hitting dry fies on the Big Hole
River until sundown. The forecast
for tomorrow is just as
good. |
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June
26,2009
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| Dennis and I were back
out in the kayaks this morning.
This time we went offshore for the
morning bite of stripers. We scored
a number of nice fish on flies and plugs
and sluggos. |
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June
25,2009
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| Found a pile of fish to
throw flies at from the Freedom Hawk
Kayak. Dennis Fontain from Vermont
got about 25 schoolie stripers. It
was a good day. |
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June
24,2009
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| Another EPIC day of
kayak fishing with Coach Gorski.
For the first 2 hours we pounded on big
fish in shallow water on the flats.
These fish 30 to more than 40 inches in
size. It was amazing to see so many
big fish like this in less than two feet
of water. We lost them for about 3
hours but we found them again and had a
huge late inning rally. In the end
Coach scored his largest striper and
largest bluefish to date. Look at
that cow! |
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June
23,2009
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| Today was a
washout. High winds forced the
rescheduling of the days charters so I
took the day off. |
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June
22,2009
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| It was a pipe dream to
think a day like that would happen two
days in a row! We hit the same
beach at the same time and they weren't
there. Dammit! |
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June
21,2009
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| Today was the day every
striper fisherman in the world dreams
of. We hit the striper
lottery. Just before dawn e noticed
a soup of bait against the shore.
Then the stripers came in. There
were large feeding stripers for as far as
the eye could see. This was one of
the best days of beach fishing for
stripers I have ever seen. Some of
the schools that were moving by had an
average size of 40 inches or better and
you could see even bigger fish
mixed. How cool is it when you can
call a 40 inch fish a
schoolie?! |
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June
20,2009
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| Today I took Team BOA
on an all day boat charter with Capt
Jared on the Excalibur out of
Provincetown. We had a great
morning of stripers and bluefish on flies
and light tackle. Later in the
morning Capt Jared showed us how the
locals fish for bass jigging with wire
line and dredged up a couple more keeper
bass. Then the capt got word that
there was tuna bite close by. We
started trolling and then started seeing
schools of bluefin tuna on the
surface. It was unbelievable to see
these gamefish so up close and
personal. I did get 2 solid shots
with a fly rod with no takes. We
saw at least 10 separate schools of tuna
and some of the schools were exploding
out of the water on
bait. |
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June
19,2009
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| Fellow rock star guide
Russell Elwell owner of Montana Fishing
Adventures joined his brother Christian
and for another assault on the same
beach as last night. It wasn't as
hot as last night but Russ did catch his
first of many stripers to
come. |
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June
18,2009
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| My friend Christian
Elwell owner of Borealis
Outdoor Adventures joined me for a full
on night time beach assault on one of my
favorite spots. We crushed fish up
to 25# on light spinning rods and the
almighty sluggo. |
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June
16,2009
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| Made a predawn raid on
the beach only to score 1 small bass on a
sluggo. The conditions changed and
the fish no showed. Later in
the day I hit the ocean in a kayak and
found plenty of bluefish and a few
stripers that hit surface plugs and
sluggos. |
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June
15,2009
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| Making the best of the
easterly winds and going on a tip that
the fish were moving on the beach, Austen
Goldsmith and his week 2 crew hit the
beach and sight fished for pods of
stripers. When the action slowed we
changed locations and found 3 to 8
pound bluefish pinning peanut bunker up
against a sandbar. It was a blast
catching these angry gamefish on the
fly. |
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June
13,2009
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| When will this norteast
wind ever go away???!!! Even though
the wind speed was reasonable the usual
spots just dont fish the same. Paul
Cain and I worked our butts off in
Freedom Hawk Kayaks to finally locate a
pile of schoolies that would whack the
fly. |
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June
12,2009
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| After a thunderstorm
delay, Rick, Kurt and Al stormed the
ocean in kayaks and were rewarded with
big breaking fish with an incredible
setting. We had flat calm seas and
loads of fish to shoot
at. |
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June
11,2009
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| The
crap wind continues and we still cant fish like
we would like. But Andrew Sale from the
UK and Jay Paulson of AmazingFlies.Com were
still able to get into a few fish at one of the
last resort spots I got. Jay fished his
Titantic Slider and landed a handful of
schoolies and Andy fished a sinking line over
the edge and was able to score a dozen or so
fish up to 26 inches. At one point there
were clouds of bait moving through with busting
stripers all over
them. |
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June
10,2009
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| Austen Goldsmith and
his mates from the UK showed up for their
annual visit. Unfortuantely junk
easterly winds made the usual fly fishing
hotspots tough to fish so we had to work
very hard to find fish. There was about
an hour of magical fishing with pods of
stripers hunting along the
shoreline. We tried an oceanside
location and were able to score a keeper
sized fish on a sluggo and a couple
schoolies on a Fishmaker fly in the
waves. |
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June
9,2009
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| Paolo Cullati from
Italy caught his first striper ever and a
pile more. The bad weather held off
and we had pods of breaking fish in front
of us for much of the
day. |
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June
7,2009
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| Coach Gorski and I made
a kayak assault on one of our favorite
locations and scored some of the biggest
fish from a kayak this season.
Check out the pig that hit a sluggo on
the surface. We didnt set any
records with numbers but the average size
of the fish was way above the norm.
Coach lost some big fish due to being
undergunned. I guarantee he will be
ready for these big fish next
time! |
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June
6,2009
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| The beach decided to
give up a couple of nice fish during
daylight today. Check out the
beautiful 40 inch striper that Heather
landed on a sluggo. |
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June
5,2009
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| Did some scouting on a
flats destination today and scored a nice
keeper sized striper on a Townsend's
Fishmaker pattern. The weather was
crappy but there were fish around.
At one stage of the tide the fish were
breaking and taking
everything. |
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June
2,2009
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| So, of course we went
back to the same spot as last night and
it seemed like the streak was gonna end
but at late inning rally kept the streak
alive. The final 90 minutes
produced a quick blitz of keeper sized
fish up to the 40 inbch
range. |
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June
1,2009
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| Just when we thought it
couldnt get any better....we pounded on
big fish in the surf all night
again! This time we put some 30#
plus fish on the beach. Once again,
we were using John Guardino Custom
Plugs. For those of you who weren't
with us last night...read it and
weep! |
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May 31
Night,2009
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| After a long nap I
decided to head out to one of my night
time beach i hotspots. The winds
were cranking and I was hoping for big
fish up against the beach. My buddy
John Guardino came out with me and
donated one of his custom plugs to
try. We each scored big fish on our
first casts and the game was on. It
was a night of 20#ers! You need to
get some of John's plugs! You can
reach him at
802-279-5569. |
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May 31
Day,2009
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| Just so you think I
dont throw that epic word around lightly,
this morning was NOT epic. Weather
and conditions wise it seemed
perfect. There was a beautiful
sunrise and plenty of anticipation but
only a few fish were caught today.
We covered alot of water and saw fish
occasionally but we didn't run into the
pods of fish we expected to. Is
this when I am supposed to say "That's
why they call is
fishin'......"? |
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May
26,2009
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| And the keeper sized
bass keep coming. So far this
season every outing has yielded at least
one keeper. Zack and I fought 30
knot winds and the new moon tide to score
a pile of stripers on sluggos. We
fished along side my guiding buddy George
Ryan and his crew of fly rodders.
There were times that all 6 of us were
hooked up at the same time. It was
another epic fishing
adventure. |
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May
25,2009
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| Another epic morning of
fly fishing for stripers in shallow
water. The Fishmaker flies continue
to dominate. I will be fishing
tonight from the beach. I have a
good feeling about
this! |
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May
24,2009
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Let the epic trips
continue! JB, Trevor and Brian
got in on some fantastic fly rod
action this morning. Everyone
hooked into more that 20 fish and
everyone got a keeper. What
more can you ask
for?!
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May
23,2009
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I had some great
kayak fishing with Peter
Courossi. We fished sluggos and
crushed some nice fish on light
spinning tackle.
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May
22,2009
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| The season continues to
rock. I fished from the beach at
night and found a pile of fat bass.
All of the fish were in close to shore
and were easy pickins with the fly rod
and my buddy Dave Townsend's
"Fishmaker" pattern. The fish
ran from 20 to 35
inches. |
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May
10-21,2009
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| All of the usual hot
locations are reporting strong runs of
fish. Plenty of bait of all kinds
combined with favorable weather
conditions have really made the start of
this season productive and fun. In
one location I fished the incoming tide
brought in waves of stripers across the
flats. We attacked them in kayaks
and threw sluggos and flies from our
Freedom Hawk Kayaks. The fish
ranged from 25" to 40" with some larger
torpedo sized fish mixed in. We are
coming into the May new moon tides.
There should be some epic action and
photos to come
soon. |
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May
9,2009
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| The first charter of
the season was epic. It was only
fitting that one of my favorites, Coach
Gorski, was along for the
festivities. We had rockin action
all day long. Coach got his first
fish with in 10 minutes of hitting the
water. I think Coach's final tally
for the day was 24 stripers landed and 8
lost at the boat. And, like
yesterday, the fish were all the 25 to 35
inch class. What a
day! |
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May
8,2009
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| This was the best
opening day I have ever had. I
scored big time with tailing fish in
shallow water. There were also pods
of fish in the main channel that kept
coming and going. I got fish on all
stages of the tide. I love my
Freedom Hawk. I was able to use the
kayak to get within shooting distance of
the pods and then stand up and let em
have it. Most of the fish were in
the 25 to 35 inch class. Most of
the fish were caught on the fly. I
was using my buddy Dave Townsend's
"Fishmaker" pattern and I couldn't keep
the fish away from that fly if I
tried! |
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April
9-12,2009
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| My fishing
buddy Peter Courossi and I once
again took Punta Allen and Ascension Bay
by storm. We went down for a quick
3 day hit of tropical fishing. We
had 2 fantastic days of guided fishing
with our guide Jose and a great day of
self guided fishing on the Punta Allen
Road. We caught plenty of bonefish,
had shots at permit and jumped a
bunch of baby tarpon. |
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December 28,2008
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| Today we cruised around
the bay looking for anything. We
had shots at huge barracuda and some nice
black tip sharks. We got plenty of
wild strikes but no hooks ups.
Plenty bonefish tailing about. We
poked around for snook and tarpon and got
strikes but no hookups. Jose
eventually found a pile of snook cruising
in shallow water and we had strikes and
hookups. There was bait and life
everywhere. If anyone ever want to
experience one of the coolest fishing
spots on the planet, contact me and I
will set you up. I have all the
contacts. |
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December 27,2008
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| On the second
day Jose wanted to take us to his
special bonefish spots deep into the
backcountry. We dragged the panga
thru a series of canals and found the
spot. It was epic bonefishing for
the entire day with the average size of
fish running 3 to 6 lbs. We lost
count before lunch. I had some
larger fish trash my light leader in the
mangrove shoots and around the
boat. The bigger fish were running
over 150 yards and difficult to control
with the light leader. I changed to
a heavy short leader and these fish still
mauled the fly. |
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December 26,2008
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| What
a way to end the year. My
fellow fishing psycho Peter Courossi and
I made a 3 day assault on Ascension
Bay in Mexico. This is one of my
most favorite places on earth to
fish. The weather was great but the
wind was challenging at times. We
dedicated the first half of the first day
to permit. Our guide Jose
set us up on a flat where he had
seen a large school of permit feeding the
last couple of days. We didn't run
into the big school but Peter
had a 25lb fish follow his fly right to
the boat. We beat on some big
bonefish for the rest of the
day. This is paradise down
here. |
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November
28,2008
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| Not for lack of
trying. It was a wild day out there
with sun,rain,hail,wind,sun. We
kayaked a small river for the first half
of the day and saw a couple of signs of
life, unknown gamefish swirling on bait
and a missed hit at the kayak, but didn't
score. Moved to the ocean side of
the river and waded out to the bar.
There were lots of diving ducks when we
got there but no
fish. |
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November
24,2008
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| Hunting for schoolies
and salters. Coach will be out on
Friday. |
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November
12-17,2008
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| Hosted a trip to South
Dakota for some world class pheasant
hunting. Contact me for more info
on world class hunting
worldwide. |
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October
28-31,2008
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| The schoolies showed a
few more times but the fishing is getting
tough and its time to start transitioning
into winter
mode. |
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October
27,2008
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| Crap! Skunked
again! The morning charter was
rough. Conditions seemed perfect
but the fish no showed. I went
back out for the sunset bite and
whamo! A huge school of schoolies
swarmed the beach for about 3 hours
taking flies and whatever else you
had. What a difference a tide can
make |
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October
24,2008
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| It was another slow
daytime charter with about a dozen
schoolies caught on sluggos and sand
eels. At least we weren't
skunked. |
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October
17-23,2008
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| The fishing has been
spotty all week. Some days were
great for schoolies in the surf and other
days it was a biological desert out
there. |
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October
16,2008
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| Its about time we
scored an epic day of flats
fishing. We were surrounded by
tailing stripers for
hours! |
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October
14,2008
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| It was a slow day kayak
fishing but we did manage a couple of
bluefish on the fly from the
kayak. |
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October
12,2008
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| Karen and Nancy were
out for their annual week of charters and
we started out with a day on the flats
and had a few shots at some
stripers but they were dispersed and
spooky. We did score some nice
bluefish on the fly that made up for the
lack of stripers. |
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October
9-11,2008
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| The weather has been
crappy and I have been running the beach
checking things out. Beach
fishing has been
spotty. |
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October
8,2008
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| Its days like this
when you appreciate your fishing
buddies. I was planning on sleeping
in today when I got a call from a buddy
who said that huge bluefish were pushing
big shad, herring and bunker onto the
beach. Plenty of time to sleep when
I am dead! We chased huge bluefish
up and down the beach til the sun went
down. It was an epic
day. |
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October
2-7,2008
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| Found em! It took
some poking around but I found another
consistent night fishing location and
scored one of the nicer beach fish of the
season drifting sand
eels. |
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October
1,2008
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| It was a tragic night
of beach fishing. We fished hard
all night with sand eels and every kind
of artificial we had to no avail.
Getting skunked sucks. |
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September
30,2008
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| Fly fishing on the
flats was pretty good this morning.
We got a pile of schoolies in the dark up
to sunrise and the scored some nice
bluefish on the fly. |
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September
26-29,2008
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| The crew from Eco
Fishing Adventures was out to film a
couple of episodes with me and wouldn't
you know hurricane Kyle was off shore for
the whole time. We did manage to
score some fish on the flats and get some
good bluefish action a couple of
times. The beach fishing was slow
with a few fish being caught. You
can see Eco Fishing Adventures on World
Fishing Network and The Sportman's
Channel and on
MyOutdoorTV.com. |
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September
25,2008
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| Fly fishing on the
beach was slow. We managed not to
get skunked but the fish were not
there. |
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September
21-24,2008
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| Night fishing
again. Action was steady for a few
days but no big fish. |
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September
20,2008
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| Headed back out to do
some night fishing with Peter and
Andrew. Peter did well in the first
couple of hours on the fly. The
action tapered off a bit but it was
a good night overall. |
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September
19,2008
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| Sweet! Still
finding stripers at
night. |
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September
18,2008
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| Had a great day of tuna
fishing on the Reel Attitude with Capt
Eddy. We saw spectacular schools of
100 to 300 lb class bluefin tuna crashing
on bait. We got a double hookup and
landed both fish. It was an epic
moment in sports. |
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September 10 -
16,2008
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| Sent the Townsend crew
home and spent the next few days cleaning
gear and debriefing in King Salmon and
Anchorage. Time to get back
into striper mode. |
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September
9,2008
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| Take out day is always
sad but it was a great trip and we had a
great morning scoring a few more nice
silvers and rainbows before the take
out. |
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September
8,2008
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| It was another
beautiful rainy day of fishing in
Alaska. More silvers, rainbows and
grayling for everyone. |
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September
7,2008
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| Today
was grayling day. Everybody scored their
grayling. |
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September
6,2008
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| The rainy weather did
not prevent another day of great
fishing. Some slab rainbows were
caught along with the first arctic char
of the trip. Silvers were awesome
as usual and the grayling fishing was
improving. |
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September
5,2008
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| Another fantastic day
of silver salmon fishing. The first
grayling of the trip was caught and some
nice rainbows were caught too. The
other salmon species were starting to die
off in a big way. It was cool to
witness this massive annual die
off. |
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September
4,2008
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| Here come the
Silvers! It rained on and off but
the fishing was great. Big angry
silver salmon, rainbows and older
sockeyes, kings and pinks were
caught. |
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September
3,2008
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| Got the Townsend crew
out to camp at the head of the
river. We had a minor weather delay
heading out but everyone made it
out. Everyone started fishing,
eating and drinking immediately.
Salmon, rainbows and lakers were caught
by everyone. Life is
good. |
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September
1-2,2008
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| Russ and Matt flew out
to the head of the river to set up
camp. The weather was came up big
time out there and they were almost
forced to land on another body of water
but pilot was able to pull off the
landing and put the boys on site.
They spent the next day putting the
finishing touches on camp and checking
out the fishing. Matt was spanking
kings, sockeyes and pinks right in front
of camp. |
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August 25
to August
31,2008
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| Headed up to Alaska to
meet my guiding buddies Russ and Matt to
open up the operation at our outpost base
camp in King Salmon. We had a
smooth week getting the gear together and
preparing for 7 days on the
river. |
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August
23,2008
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| Headed back onto the
flats to see if I could run into the
schoolies I found yesterday and they
showed up again for a couple of
hours. Other than that it was a
slow day on the flats. Time to get
ready for Alaska. |
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August
22,2008
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| Fly fishing the flats
today was fair today. Ladd Thorne
scored a couple of nice bluefish near the
deeper water that ripped him into his
backing. We did see schools of
small bass chasing silversides in the
grass beds but they were very
finicky. Good luck in New Zealand
Ladd. |
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August
21,2008
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| Another epic night at
the "spot". Red Sox security stud
Zach Silbert scored a pile of nice
stripers on the usual baits with many
keeper sized fish. Don't misbehave
at Fenway this summer or Zach will kick
your ass! |
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August
20,2008
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| Today was a canyon run
on the "Reel Attitude" with Capt
Eddy. The 3 1/2 hour ride out was
fine but the seas picked up and we were
rockin and rollin in 4 to 6 all
day. We had a great day landing a
couple of nice mahi mahi and a big
yellowfin tuna. One of the
highlights of the day was when a huge
600lb class marlin came up to a whack at
the baits. Minutes after the marlin
went down the tuna hit. It was a
great day. |
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August
19,2008
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| The sunset bluefishing
trip with Paul Staid and his son Steven
was kind of slow, but we did manage a
couple of nice blues off the beach.
It was a beautiful
sunset. |
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August
18,2008
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| The big ones came in
tonight! A run of 40 inch class
fish rolled in on the "spot"
tonight. John and JP Guardino
hammered fish on his famous
needlefish. It was classic surf
fishing with big winds, big waves and big
fish. Epic! Dan K got his
first striper ever and it was 35
inches! |
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August
17,2008
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| Right back to the
"spot" for another epic night. We
scored loads of stripers with many keeper
sized bass on, you guessed it, sluggos
and needlefish. |
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August
16,2008
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| The night trip was way
better than the day trip. Peter and
I went to the "spot" and scored stripers
on sluggos and needlefish as
usual. |
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August
16,2008
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| The day trip with
Justin and Hans was mediocre at
best. We went to the "spot" on the
beach and missed the hot time. We
were able to land a nice striper and
bluefish and a few schoolies on
sluggos. |
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August
14,2008
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| Straight from the beach
to the tuna boat! Luke from the
Ptown Marina was kind enough to invite me
to mate a giant tuna trip with him on the
"Coyote" We started the day looking
for bluefish for bait but couldn't get
away from loads of big stripers.
Wish we had problems like this all the
time. We got some bluefish and put
them in the livewell and headed for the
tuna grounds. We saw loads of
whales and bait but the giants didn't
show. It was a fun day
anyway. The whale show was worth
the ride out. |
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August
13,2008
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| You know I went right
back to the "spot" again. And again
we scored loads of fish. Sluggos
and John Guardino needlefish were the
ticket as usual. |
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August
12,2008
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| The secret beach spot
yields again! Brad Kulis and I
hammered fish on plugs and sluggos.
No huge fish but plenty o'
fish. |
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August
10,2008
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| Yah Baby! We hit
the motherload tonight. We were
surrounded by big bass all night.
Most of the fish were averaging 35 inches
or better. We were kayaking the
shallows in the Freedom Hawk Kayaks
and took fish on sluggos.
There were thousands of fish. It
was an epic night. |
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August
8,2008
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| The plan was to head
out for tuna on the "Tough
Enough" but the seas were too rough
to make the run so we settled for some
striper fishing. We got a couple of
nice fish trolling wire and got into a
load of tasty sea
bass. |
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August
6,2008
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| The early morning bite
was ok in the surf with some bluefish and
bass. After the sun came up
everything slowed down. We worked
hard walking the beach and kayaking the
flats for not much reward. Where's
the fish!? |
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August
5,2008
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| The crowd got a load of
keeper bass in the rips on the "Reel
Attitude" with Captain Eddy. It was
a mob scene on the rips all day. We
counted 75 boats at one point.
Captain Eddy was able to hold us on the
fish all day. |
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August
2,2008
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| Fished for tuna
offshore on board the "Tough Enough" out
of Nantucket for the first time this
season. We found loads of feeding
whales and dolphins. We marked bait
but couldn't raise a fish. We did
see a 20 fish blitz about a 1/4 mile
out. It was spectacular. The
tuna were 100 to 300lb class fish
exploding out of the water. We
tried to intercept them but it was
anyone's guess which way they went.
Better luck next time. |
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August
1,2008
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| We had an epic day on
the flats with tailing fish surrounding
us in less than 12 inches of water at one
point. We also had some great light
tackle action with medium size
bluefish. |
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July
31,2008
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| It was another
fantastic day on the "Reel Attitude" with
Captain Eddy. We put another 135lb
bluefin tuna on the deck. It was
epic. I can't tell you where and I
can't tell you how but I can tell you to
call Capt Eddy for a
charter. |
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July
29/30,2008
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| The flats were hot on
the overnight. There were sand eels
on the bars and the fish were on
them. Everybody caught a pile of
fish. The most effective method was
picking the freshie sand eels off the bar
and using them for bait. It was fish
after fish after fish for a couple of
hours. When the tide turned
everything shut down and headed
in. |
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July
28/29,2008
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| We had a great
overnight fishing adventure that started
out with classic night time surf fishing
action for bass and blues on needle fish
and polish sand eels. After a
couple of hours we switched to fly
fishing on the flats and scored a load of
schoolies and a couple of
bluefish. |
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July
27,2008
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| It was a bluefish
massacre with Capt Eddy on the "Reel
Attitude". We fished Nantucket
Sound on a perfect day. The
stripers were on strike and did not
bite. Everyone had
fun. |
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July
26,2008
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| It was a tragically
slow day for Coach and the Bruno
flotilla. We fished as hard as humanly
possible and only yielded a handful of
fish. On the positive side it was a
beautiful and they were a great bunch of
guys. We'll get em next time.
See you for the new moon next week
Coach. |
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July
25,2008
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| The sunset bluefishing
trip with the Fischer crew was slow but
we did score one nice 32 inch blue on a
ranger. |
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July
24,2008
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| Today was a learn to
fish day for Dr Jay in Brewster. We
did about 90 minutes of "classroom" and
then went to check out some
locations. The wind was cranking so
we were limited to our options. We
kayaked to the sheltered side of a
breakwater and worked with all the
different types gear we talked about
during classroom time. We bailed
out to take cover from
thunderstorms. No fish today but Dr
Jay is ready to go. |
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July
23,2008
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| After recovering for
most of the day from my 24 hour shift the
day before I woke to giant bluefish
calling me to come get them off National
Seashore. Naturally I answered the
call and headed out in the kayak
and caught 3 huge bluefish in about
an hour and a half on a beat up pencil
popper. I taped one of the fish at
35 inches. That was one angry
bluefish. The fog chased me in but
was an epic 90
minutes. |
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July
21-22,2008
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| As soon as I finished
the tuna charter I headed back to the
Outer Cape to take Fred and his son Nick
to my hot night beach spot. We
scored fat schoolies up to 26
inches. The keepers didn't show up
but it was a blast catching the fish on
surface plugs. It was a great 24
hour marathon. Tuna during the day
and fishing for stripers from the beach
at night. |
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July
21,2008
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| Capt. Eddy is the
man! We boated a 135# bluefin tuna
trolling the shipping lanes in 5 to 7
foot swells. Angler Ian fought the
fish to the boat and I wrangled the angry
mackerel to the back door and Cap gaffed
him and we hauled him on deck. It
was epic. Can't wait for the next
tuna trip. |
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July
21,2008
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| Today was an awesome
day trolling for bass and blues on the
"Reel Attitude" with Capt Eddy. We
crushed keeper bass and monster bluefish
all day. Tuna
tomorrow! |
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July
19/20,2008
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| Another epic night of
beach fishing in the surf. The moon
was bright, the wind was cranking and the
fish were there. I scored 4 fish
over 30 inches on needlefish, polish sand
eel, and sluggos. There were many
fish in the 25 to 30 inch range. I
got a 28 inch fish on the fly in the
raging surf it was
awesome. |
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July
18,2008
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| Another great morning
on the flats. We fly fished for
feisty schoolies in supe shallow water at
dawn. There was a fantastic sunrise
with tailing and breaking fish. At
the edge of the flats we got into some
fun bluefish action. The second
half of the day was spent casting from
the beach to those huge bluefish
that are in town. We got about 5
fish in the 30 inch
range. |
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July
17,2008
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| My guide in training
Andrew and I went for a mid day kayak
cruise and found a pile of 4 to 8 pound
bluefish to have fun with. It was a
great day on the
water. |
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July
16,2008
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| The streetfight
continues! Coach and I pounded or
should I say they pounded on us for
another sundown battle. We were in
the middle of a full blown surface blitz
at one point. It was
epic. |
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July
15,2008
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| Holy Crap! The
biggest bluefish of the season moved in
and we spanked em from the kayak.
We fished the afternoon to sundown and
scored many huge bluefish over 30
inches. It was a
streetfight. |
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July
13/14,2008
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| Back to the beach for
some night fishing. Can't say it
was epic but I did score a keeper on a
needlefish and about a dozen fat
schoolies. Beats
sleepin'! |
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July
12,2008
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| Started fishing the
beach at sunrise. The fish were off
shore so we headed off shore in the
kayaks and scored a big bluefish trolling
a needlefish. That was all the
action we saw so we changed to an inshore
location and caught a handful of
schoolies on sluggos. After a break
I headed back offshore and got into piles
of huge breaking bluefish on surface
plugs. |
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July
11,2008
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| Kayak fishing for big
bluefish was awesome today around
sunset. Huge fish were
everywhere. They smashed anything
that was put in front of them. It
was a street fight out
there. |
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July
10,2008
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| Fished the same beach
as last night and found a pile of
schoolies. The larger fish were
elsewhere, but the schoolies were great
fun. We got them on needlefish and
sluggos with spinning gear and poppers on
the fly rod. Hits on almost every
cast. |
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July
9,2008
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| Back in the
saddle! If you weren't fishing with
me last night then you missed out!
It was an epic night of surf
fishing. Big wind, big waves and
big fish. I was fishing a stubby
needlefish made by my friend John
Guardino. The fish were hitting it
from the top of the cast to right in the
wash. I landed around a dozen fish
between 30 and 35 inches and loads of
smaller fish. This was one of the
best beach fishing nights of the
season. You know I'm heading back
out there tonite. |
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July
6,2008
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| Epic dry fly day.
Salmon flies crushed em all day.
There was so much sweet water and
beautiful scenery it was awesome.
It was a tragedy when the float was
over. The only consolation was
thought of chasing stripers and blues
back on the Cape.
Nice. |
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July
5,2008
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| Russ pulled a rabbit
out of his hat and took us to the Big
Hole River for an overnight float.
It was dry fly mania. The salmon
flies just finished hatching the week
before and he had a hunch that salmon
flies would work and they did. We
caught, brookies, browns and
rainbows. After a day of fishing we
stayed at a cabin on the water and ate
and drank like kings. More
fishing tomorrow. |
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July
4,2008
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| Peter and I took the
show tour and visited our friend Russ
Elwell in Montana to do some trout
fishing. The water levels were
running high on the Yellowstone so we
floated a small scenic river in Russ' new
raft. Fishing was slow but Peter
managed to land some browns on dry
flys. The float was fantastic and
scenic. We ate well and had a great
time. |
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July
2,2008
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| Freedom Hawk
mania! Dave Cameron and Dave Hadden
of Freedom Hawk Kayaks were guest anglers
today along with Alan Poole from Cornell
University and wouldnt ya know it?
It was another epic morning on the
flats. Everybody caught fish.
We had quads goin many times. After
the tide rolled in on the flats we hit
the Freedom Hawk Kayaks and pounded on
breaking fish for 3 more hours.
What a day. |
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July
1,2008
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| Second morning in a row
of epic twilight flats fishing.
Same story as
yesterday. |
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June
30,2008
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| The flats were smokin
this morning. The fish were not big
but there were tons of them.
Breaking and tailing fish were caught
with flies and sluggos. It was
epic. |
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June
29,2008
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| The fog was thick at
launch time but soon lifted as we cruised
into Plum Island Sound. Peter
scored schoolies trolling sluggos behind
the kayak as we searched for a place to
do some wade fishing. We found a
sweet sandbar on the edge of a channel on
the Parker River and scored many
schoolies on fly. The sun came out
and it turned into a great day on
the water. |
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June
28,2008
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| We launched kayaks from
the Parker River Wildlife Refuge and
headed to the Joppa Flats. The wind
was howling at 15 to 20 out of the
northeast and it stayed steady for
the entire outing. We did manage to
score a fish on a tube and worm at the
edge of the flats in the Merrimack and
got a couple more fish on the incoming
tide back in the Plum Island River.
The wind was oppressive in the
kayak. There is a more favorable
forecast for tomorrow. |
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June
25,2008
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| It was a long tough day
on the water today. The weather was
perfect but the fish were hard to
find. We fished flats areas and
beach spots from 0900 to 2200 and only
came up with a handful of small
fish. Not for lack of trying.
On a positive note we did see a pile of
fish on the incoming tides on the flats
but were forced off the flats because of
the rising water. Kayaks are the
ticket for access to those fish.
Heading out on tour this weekend to fish
the Joppa Flats, the Merrimack and the
Parker Rivers in
kayaks. |
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June
22,2008
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| Today was opening day
for the "Tough Enough" on Nantucket with
my friend David Muller. We had a
great morning trolling up 4 keeper bass
up to 35 inches and scoring piles of big
blues from 25 to 35 inches. We also
threw light spinnng tackle at big
breaking blues. What a
blast. |
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June
21,2008
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| Cape Cod guiding legend
George Ryan and I took a group of 4 out
to the flats today. It was slow
going for a while and we eventually found
fish at the edge of the shallow water and
stayed around the same area and caught a
pile of schoolies up to 27 inches.
The first inshore bluefish was caught
too. Time to beef up the
tippet. |
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June
20,2008
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| The morning trip with
Austen Goldsmith and his crew was kind of
slow. We fished the flats late on
the tide and then switched to beach
fishing. There were pods of full
size pogies, blueback herring and sand
eels moving up and down the beach.
The highlight of the morning was a nice
pod of keeper sized fish that came right
by us. We had four hookups at
once. We got one of the larger fish
in the pod. Unfortunately that was
all the action to be had. The night
charter on the flats was great.
Matt from NYC fished sluggos for a pile
of fish. One of the fish was about
28 inches. It was a beautiful
sunset and moonrise. |
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June
19,2008
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| Headed out in search of
bluefin tuna today with Captain Ramon
Rustia. We cruised out of Wellfleet
to the tuna grounds and laid out 4
spreaders and trolled. There were
many whales. Unfortunately it was a
better day for whale watching than tuna
fishing. We didn't score but it was
a great day on the water. We did
spank some bluefish on surface plugs on
the way back in. We'll get em next
time. |
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June
18,2008
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| The full moon kayak
fishing with Coach turned out to be
slower than usual. Coach did manage
to pound on a pod of keeper sized fish
and pop a fish here and there but it was
hard work finding the fish. There
were many single cruising fish coming
over the bars on the incoming tide but
they were spooky and difficult to
catch. We did end the day with a
nice fish on the fly rod with one of
Coach's fly creations it was great.
Tuna fishing with Capt Ramon Rustia
tomorrow. Sweet! |
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June
17,2008
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| Had a great kayak
charter with Zach. He trolled a
tube and worm for a big fat 38 inch
striper. He also scored some
schoolies and a smaller keeper size
fish. We switched locations and
threw sluggos on light tackle for a pile
of feisty schoolies. It was an epic
day. |
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June
16,2008
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| It was a perfect day
for early morning flats fishing and we
managed to hit some hot fishing here and
there but it wasn't a blow out by any
stretch. We had many doubles and
hits on poppers and sluggos on the
surface. It was a great day but I
was hoping for more numbers and bigger
fish. |
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June
15,2008
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| Thunder and lightning
canceled the morning charter and bogus
winds canceled the afternoon
charter. We did take a cruise out
to the beach for a quick check and just
missed a blitz of big bass on a huge pod
of big pogies. "You shoulda been
here an hour ago!" Tomorrow looks
good. |
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June
14,2008
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| It was an early morning
charter on the flats today. Peter
and Lew bravely embarked on a wading trip
with me at 0130 with the hopes of scoring
bass feeding in the super shallows.
After a surreal hike in the dark out to
the fishing grounds we heard breaking
fish and Peter hooked up a couple of
schoolies in short order. Lew and I
headed down the flat in more fish and Lew
scored his first striper on the
fly. The fishing was slow for
a while and then we changed locations and
had shots at fish in shallow water.
Sluggos worked as usual. At the
next location we were greeted by the
sunrise and breaking fish moving with the
tide. All in all it was an ok
fishing day but a great day on the
water. |
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June
13,2008
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| I
fished with the Wild Women of Watertown, NY
today. It was a beautiful day on the
water. We fished sand eels on a daytime
tide and only managed to dredge up a handful of
schoolies, not for lack of trying, the girls
fished hard. |
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June
12,2008
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| I scouted a flats area
from midnight to 0200 and scored a fat
fish on a sluggo and a pile of smaller
fish. It was awesome with fish
exploding on the sluggo in the dark right
in front of me. In the dead silence
of the night a fish blowing up that close
will scare the crap out of you.
It's great! |
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June
11,2008
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| Kowabunga! A
prehistoric run of fish came across the
flats today. It was a picture
perfect day for flats fishing.
After a long hike out the flats we ran
into the fish. Many of the fish
were 30 to 40 inches. The only bad
part of this story is that the fish were
finicky and extremely difficult to catch,
however, Austen Goldsmith and his party
were able to land some of the big
ones. By the end of the day they
figured out a presentation that would
entice strikes. As frustrating as
it was it was still and epic day as we
were surrounded by thousands of fish all
day. |
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June
10,2008
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| I had a great day sight
fishing from the Freedom Hawk Kayak
today. Did I mention I love this
boat!? I had many shots at finicky
fish. It felt great to get one to
bite the fly. There were many
follows right up to the kayak. It
was another beautiful day of sight
fishing. |
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June
9,2008
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| Coach Gorski and I
smoked em in the kayaks today. We
got fish in open water and on the
flats. It was an awesome sight
watching wave after wave of stripers
flood the flats. The sight fishing
was awesome. They were keyed in on
pods of small sand eels and were very
finicky, however Coach was able to score
with a variety of plastic baits and I was
able to score on the fly rod with white
Fishmakers. It was a great
day. |
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June
8,2008
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| It was a beautiful day
weather wise, but fishing wise it was
frustrating. We were able to locate
large fish on the flats but they were as
spooky and finicky as ever. We had
some follows but no takers. We
tried many flies and covered alot of
ground but to no avail. I will try
a different part of the Cape tomorrow in
the kayak in search of piles of
fish. |
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June
5-7,2008
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| The smokin hot fishing
lasted for another day and then the east
wind and clouds killed the day time flats
and sight fishing. Austen
Goldsmith's group from England struggled
to land less than a dozen fish.
That's fishin'. The early morning
anglers had the last of the hot
fishing. The next day was foggy and
cool and the loads of fish that were
around last week seem to be taking a
break. I did manage to locate some
large cruising fish and took 2 fish in 35
inch range with a fly rod on a Tom
Sledsic popper. Later in the tide
in bright sunshine I had many shots at 30
to 35 inch fish on shallow sand flats
just like the tropics. I was the
coolest to be floating across the flat
standing up in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. I would have never seen any
of these fish in time if I wasn't
standing. The fish were extremely
finicky. I did manage to stick 2
more fish sight fishing and one more
trolling a sluggo in shallow water.
Quality not quantity today. Sorry
Coach! |
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June
3,2008
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| OMFG! The cape has
exploded. No time to post fishing reports
because the fishing has been so hot. I
hate the fact that I have to sleep. The
sand eels were all over the flats and the fish
were slurping them up. There were big
fish mixed in with loads of schoolies.
Check out thepics. During the day
I anchored at a drop off and slammed fish
for six hours in the same spot!
Coach Gorski broke his record for an
outing of over 40 fish. Peter and
Dick from NYC scored big time on the
flats sight fishing for as many fish as
they could catch. Dick picked off a
nice 35 inch fish with nice cast and
played him perfectly. The video of
the release will be up soon. The
big fish are in the usual locations and
Capecaster scored a half dozen fish over
40 inches from a shore location.
Yesterday one of the best fisherman on
the Cape told me he had the best day he
has ever had fishing for stripers.
His first 6 fish were over 30 inches and
he had to stop because he couldn't reel
in anymore. And he was fishing
poppers on a fly rod. Sweet!
Gotta get back out there, more
later. |
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May
30,2008
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| How about
that, the wind changed direction and the fish
disappeared. It was no fishfest today,
however it was a fun day on the water with
Jason and Alec Griswold
from AckKayak
. Some scattered
schools of legal fish were cruising
around but got no good shots at
them. A few large fish followed the
flies in and followed the mackerel but no
takers. The ticket to the big fish
would have been to live line those
mackerel. We managed a handful of
schoolie stripers and a bunch of 14 to 16
mackerel all on flies. Jason
and Alec enjoyed fishing from the
Freedom Hawk for the first
time. |
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May
29,2008
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| It was a fishfest out
there today. I anchored up on a drop off
and fished in the same spot for six hours
and caught as many fish I wanted. I
left fish breaking. The Freedom
Hawk was key in fishing this area in
comfort. The fish were small
compared to yesterday but what they
lacked in size they made up for in
numbers. The fish were feasting on
massive schools of sand eels.
They hit flies, sluggos, surface
plugs and tins. I'll be back
tomorrow for sure. |
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May
28,2008
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| Fished
the beach in the morning and was able to sight
fish for pods of fish moving down the shoreline
in the bright sunshine. Switched to the
kayak when the wind died down. It was
another epic day on the water. There were
big fish rolling on the surface and they hit
flies, sluggos and tins.
New video
is
up. |
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May
27,2008
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| Scouted the beach and
saw loads of birds and fish working at
different locations. Keeper fish
are around. Many different types of
bait are present including anchovies,
silversides, squid, mackerel, sand eels
and more. I am going out in the
kayak tomorrow. |
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May
17-23,2008
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| Things
have finally turned on out here. Fish are
starting to show up in large numbers at all of
the usual places. I had one the best days
I've had in a long time. I paddled into
an acre of breaking fish in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak and released about 20 fish in the 25 to
38 inch range. It was an epic
morning. The fish were feeding on sand
eels and hit sluggos, flies, and sand eel
plugs. There is fresh video from my trip
on thevideo
page . Beach
fishing was still spotty, one day
you could have 40 fish in a tide and the
next day get
skunked. |
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May
6-16,2008
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| The
weather was not very conducive to early season
fishing action on Cape Cod during the
last week and a half. There were
occasional fish taken here and there, but all
in all it was a very slow start to the
season. However, things have changed
dramatically in the last 48 hours with big fish
being taken in the usual canal spots and I just
finished an epic late nite to dawn flats
fishing trip where I found myself
surrounded by tailing fish in shallow
water. It was a great opportunity to use
my Freedom Hawk Kayak and be able to stand up
and cast to these fish. There is a short
video on the
video
page of the first
keeper of the season taken while fishing
from the Freedom Hawk. The weather
has turned to crap again but the fish are
here. |
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May 1-5,
2008
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I scouted from the
Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown and
the water temps are still a little
cool for any consistent action.
There are sporadic reports of a fish
here and there but it hasn't happened
yet. I did have a great time
paddling in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. This boat will be a huge
fish catching tool this season.
The Cape Cod National Seashore is
full of life. There are loads
of migrating birds, feeding whales
and seals all along the
Seashore. You can feel it
getting ready to bust wide open with
fish. The first charter of the
season on May 4 with Coach Gorski
came up a bust, but Coach did manage
to catch and release one of the first
keepers of the season on his own the
day before. Bragging rights go
to Coach for that score. I'll
spend the week continuing to scout
for fish. When it busts open it
will be huge. You definitely
want to get in on the early season
action. There will be waves of
fish on the beaches and early season
hot spots.
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