Foggy day on the briney

Today Micah brought his son Huckleberry all the way from California to catch some east coast stripers. On the way through New York they picked up Pancho to join in the Quest. We left the dock with a mile of visibility and when we got out a mile it dropped to 50 yards. We poked […]

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Fathers Day

Today Henry brought his other son Henry Jr. out for a mid day trip. Jr. nailed a bluefish within the first ten minutes. He also caught a nice sized striper in the last ten minutes of the trip. Both father and son worker real hard today but the fish were not in an eating mood. […]

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Another adventure

This morning brought Dwight and his Dad David over to spend the day on the boat. We left the dock fairly early to fish both sides of the tide. We arrived at the first spot along with the fog. It took some work but we managed a hand full of bass and the first blue […]

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Off to a good start

Sunday brought Henry and his son Charley up the short but still dangerous drive up Rt. 95 for my first trip of the year. We left the dock with bright blue sky and high pressure sitting on top of us. Nice for a boat ride but not so good for fishing. Henry struck first with […]

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A little bit of everything

For our past two trips Gail and I decided to do some bottom fishing. Its been fairly decent with fluke up to six lbs. With them we added sea robins, sea bass, stripers, sand sharks, scup and skates. The tides are going to be good for bass this week so that’s going to be our […]

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Best day yet

Today Gail and I decided to fish the outgoing tide which started around the crack of 10:30 AM. She made two casts and landed two fish. It took me a little bit longer but I got there. We spent most of the tide in two spots and had fish the whole time. We even got […]

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Fly time

This morning Gail and I took a quick trip to catch the tide. The first stop was barren so we moved on. Spot number two was more productive. We had had a couple of fish take our squid flies and shortly after that the sand eels came through. We switched to smaller stuff and picked […]

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Throwing lead

Gail and I took our first trip of the year this afternoon. Since this was a scouting trip we were using spin rods with the old reliable bucktail. The first spot looked promising but we came up empty. The next one had a few fish showing so we stopped and we each put a couple […]

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Back in Business

We just got word today that Connecticut will let us begin charters starting tomorrow. We are expecting R.I. and NY. to do the same shortly. The reports that I have received are that there are quite a few bass in the rivers and along the coast. These guys put on a few pounds from last […]

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Another rainy day

Usually about this time of year I write about my recent salmon fishing trip. However for the first time in 15 years we were cancelled because the border is closed. We still can’t do charters but I think that will change by the 1st of June. I’m going through my fly boxes to see what […]

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