Getting closer

The days are finally getting longer and the temps are creeping up. All my rods and reels are cleaned and checked. Saltwater flies are tied and my spring salmon flies are ready to go. I have enough trout flies that are ready for this week’s opener. It’s still another month till the boat gets uncovered. The water temps in the sound are in the mid 40’s so that’s about right. This year’s bass should be mostly pretty good sized so that will be fun. For some reason the month of October is starting to fill up early this year. If you want to get out in prime time you might just want to pick a day or so and get it in the book now.

That’s a wrap!!


We called it a season on Tuesday morning. With some help from the guys we pulled the boat out and now it’s parked safely in our driveways. Gail had her surgery the week before and came down to supervise. She had three vertebrae fused in her neck and is well on the road to recovery. Now we just need to keep her slowed down for the next couple months. Thanks to our old friends and to our new ones it was a fun year. The bass came in at the right time and were good sized. Bluefish made a surprise appearance and were also good sized. A few baby Bonito showed but didn’t stick around. The Albies arrived in September but even though we had a few good days they were not consistent as they should have been. We hope that you all have a safe winter and we are looking to do it again next year.

It’s a wrap!

Gary made the long drive out east for our final trip of this season. We left early and found bass along the beach along with a couple dozen of our closest friends. Gary picked up a few fish pretty quickly before the sun got too high. When they quit we went exploring. We found some […]

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A two fer

Today ol’ Bob left the deep woods for a little fall fishing. We left the dock with the sun just peeking out and found the bass piled up eating bay anchovies. Bob dropped a fly in front of them and it was inhaled by his personal best striper that was in the neighborhood of 20 […]

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A two fer

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The fat lady is warming up!

I took a solo trip at the end of last week. It took two casts for the first bass. After a bit I moved and caught seven more up to 15 lbs. All in all I went about 10 miles total. Today Gary came back and it took him three casts for his first and […]

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Back at it

Long time friend Gary was back again after the elusive Albie. The fish that were here last week left on Sundays blow for parts unknown. The past two days proved fishless for all involved. I hemmed and hawed about todays trip and finally decided to take a look around. Right off the bat Gary picked […]

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Striper Thumb

Long time friend and angler Gary made the long dangerous trip up art. 95 in the fog to throw some flies today. We left the dock with 100 feet of visibility which is always a fun ride. We found our desired piece of land and started a slow crawl in search of some hungry bass. […]

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A bit of a challenge

For the past two days I’ve had the pleasure of fishing with old friends from upstate NY. Charlie and Sarah came back for an annual October fest. Finally we had some decent weather for these guys. We started out early Tuesday morning and found some bass in an eating mode. Charlie caught his personal best […]

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So easy even an old guy can do it

I had a late cancellation today so Gail and I got out just as the sun was rising. The fish had moved a bit from where they had been but not to far. We got a call and came across several large schools of hungry bass. We picked them off with flies and Albie Snax. […]

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