Another season is in the book. That makes 27 for me guiding. We met some new and pretty cool anglers this year. That keeps things interesting for us. Add them to our regulars and we had lots of laughs on the briney this year. The bass started off with good numbers and pretty good sizes. We had several that were north of 20 lbs. I think we caught three bluefish this year. The albies were a no show. They had too much bait offshore and had no need to come in to play. The big surprise was the amount of bonito that visited with us. We caught more this year than the last five years combined. Hopefully we’ll all be here to do it again next season. Stay safe and have some fun. Thanks to all of my old and new friends.
Grand Finale
Yesterday Stan and Justin came down for a shot at some stripers. We headed out at dawn to where they have been for the past week. Unfortunately they had moved on. There was acres of bait still around but no bass. We moved around and found pockets of Atlantic Mackerel that were willing to play. That got pretty old after a short time so we kept on going. I decided to look in the area that we found some Bonito earlier in the week. We found more Mack’s but with them were a good number of Bones that wanted to play. We had several hours of both species one after another. We ended up with as many bones as we had Mack’s. In 28 years of doing this I’ve never seen a day like this. On the way home we made one more stop and picked up one elusive bass. Pretty fun day all around.
The early girl gets the fish
It had been quite a while since we were able to get out in the boat so we set the alarm to beat the sun. I’ve been running the boat a lot but others were doing the fishing. We found the birds and the bait pretty quickly and soon after the bass found us. The […]
[Continue reading…]Trifecta
John had to head home yesterday so it was Steve for his third day in a row. We headed out to the spot that was holding stripers. There were a few around and Steve managed to get one to eat. That area petered out soon after so we decided to take a ride. After a […]
[Continue reading…]Yesterday was good and today was better.
No pics today. Thursday morning brought Steve and John back for some fun on the briney. We left with the sun and found the bass right away. We were on bass for about five hrs of the six hr trip. Flies and Albi Snax were the ticket. The fish were averaging eight to ten lbs. […]
[Continue reading…]Basstastic
Today brought Steve back and he brought John with him. We found some small fish at first and after a timely call we found several large schools of bass that had the bait trapped. It was a little dicey but the guys did themselves well. After the tide died and the fish quit we went […]
[Continue reading…]Good day on the briney
Friday morning brought Martin and Stuart down for a good day without the east winds. We opted to start with some relaxing fishing instead of fighting the masses. For two hours the guys caught bass with no other boats around. These fish were smaller but you can’t beat a relaxed environment. After a while we […]
[Continue reading…]A good day for a long boat ride.
Gary and I beat the sunrise today and were met by an east wind and big heave. After trying about six different spots and a tide change we found a good amount of baitfish that was occasionally being harassed by the elusive bonito. We had a couple short hits and then Gary got two to […]
[Continue reading…]Back at it
We had a few days off to attend the Helicopter Company’s Reunion that I flew with in Vietnam. it was a balmy 85 and well east of the storm inSouth Carolina.Now we are home and back to business. Tuesday Steve and Jim came over to experience the fall run. Unfortunately it hadn’t quite started yet. […]
[Continue reading…]British Invasion Day Four
What a difference a day makes. Today Simon and Dave returned for day two. We found some schoolie bass early and then took the long ride. There were scattered pods of different species in the area. Quickly we caught the first of a good bunch of Bonito. The tide slowed so we. Took a short […]
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