I took a last minute solo trip Tuesday morning to see what is going on. I found some bass right off the bat where they should be. Had some fun and moved on. pulled a bass from the rocks with a spook. Tried another spot where the fish were on sand eels. I wanted to see if the fish were around and they are. Sometimes they are with some good sized bluefish.
I hate to do this
June 14, 2022 By
When i posted my rates for 2022 gas was $3.65 a gallon.This week its $5.96. Burning an average of 15 gal. a trip I can’t afford not to raise my prices. If for some reason fuel prices drop my rates will follow. We are expecting to be paying close to $7.00 by the end of summer.
June 11, 2022 By
Back at it
after a short vacation and household responsibilities we were able to get back to business. We arrived at the very end of the flood tide and it took four casts to put one in the boat on a fly. Gail soon followed suit. We tried two spots and caught fish in both. This should be a pretty good season.
May 26, 2022 By
We are back
After a long winter we are back in the water better than ever. We have a new engine block, powerhead and pretty much everything under the cowling. we launched this morning and took a little check ride to make sure everything works as it should it did so we stopped to see if any fish wanted to come out and play it took Gail about ten minutes to put the first one in the boat. Those of you that know her wont be surprised. i followed suite a few minutes later. We had some fish on top and managed a handful up to about ten lbs. A pretty good start after a long winter. This years fish are like the rest of us and they put on a few pounds too.
Getting closer
March 24, 2022 By
I’ve been busy this winter and now I have a bunch of new bucktail jigs tied up and ready to go.I went through my flies and cleaned out the old and beat up ones Added a few new ones and will add more on rainy days this Spring. The powerhead made it to Florida only to find out that the block was cracked. We got really lucky and Gary found a complete powerhead straight from the factory. so now we will have brand new instead of rebuilt. its on its way up from Atlanta so we should be good to go shortly. I’ll keep you posted
Happy New Year
February 1, 2022 By
Well we made it through the holidays in pretty good shape. last season was frustrating with motor issues and a lack of co-operating fish.Luckily the bass bite was pretty consistent. This year I’m removing the eight hour trips. If the fishing and weather holds up we can extend a six hr one. i found out that Rhode Island is raising their charterboat licenses from $12.50 to $300 per year. I guess they needed the money. Right now the boat is at the mechanics and the power head will be shipped out for a rebuild. It will be as good as new for the start of the season. it wont be long now
Frustration
October 19, 2021 By
Sunday Dr Jeff came back to finish out his season. It was a bit breezy and the fish weren’t interested in flies so we switched over to Albie Snax. The bass liked them as well as a 10 lb. Bluefish. We finished up with a scrappy Albie to get the trifecta.
Monday Dr. Jon came from California to hunt for the elusive Albie. Still the wind was blowing and we found a bit of a lee and caught a couple of Atlantic Mackerel. A first for him. We found some bass in close and as we got closer the sound of the motor changed. I didn’t like it and decided to call it a day and make our way back to the dock. We pulled the boat and hauled it to our mechanic in Rhode Island. A compression test proved our fear that we had a dead cylinder. That was a kiss of death for this season. We will be sending the power head down to Florida after the first of the year for a complete rebuild. We should be back in action by the beginning of May. Have a safe winter and we hope to see you in the spring.
Summer in October
October 15, 2021 By
David brought is Buddy Tim out for his first trip out on the Sound. We beat the sun out and made our third trip over this week. Pretty flat calm water all three days. We started looking where they were yesterday but apparently the albies decided to sleep late today. They eventually came around and we got some to eat. The highlight was a double in the middle of the fleet when no one else was hooked up. Very few bass and no blues today. They have been run over pretty hard lately. We did find some fish closer to home this afternoon. There is a bit of weather coming in for the next few days. We’re going to have to see what that does for us.
They ate today
October 14, 2021 By
Doc C came out of central Connecticut today to try and get an albie to eat a fly. We headed out and found some bass and blues. Put a bass in the boat and donated a couple flies to the bluefish. There weren’t as many bass as there were yesterday so we decided to do some exploring. We found the albies and they were hungry. We picked away and had a pretty good day on the water.
Looking good
October 13, 2021 By
We have had a few pretty good days lately. Lots of bass around. Today we took a long ride to find bass to 14 lbs and blues to 10. The albies were pretty fussy though. The weather is going to be the determining factor where we will be fishing.
