I had a very late start Monday due to a random drug test. I left the dock promptly at 11:00AM under a cloudless sky and no wind. The first spot produced a bass on my second cast. They were packed together in behind a large boulder. almost every time I put the fly there one […]
[Continue reading…]Still looking
July 26, 2019 By
Gail and I took a trip out this morning and we were fishing the tide so I got to sleep till six AM. It took us two casts to double on stripers. We stayed until the sun was high so we only stayed in the same spot for two hours. We headed out to see […]
[Continue reading…]Perfect
July 24, 2019 By
Today brought the infamous Dr. Jim out of the deep woods of New Hampshire. The weather report was for perfect conditions on the sound. We left the dock with the sun rising and we made our way to our first spot. We stayed there for three and a half hours without moving. The action was […]
[Continue reading…]Looking good
July 22, 2019 By
I took another trip to do a little scouting. I didn’t find what I was looking for but I did find a bunch of bass. The tides are going to be perfect this week. The news is that some medium sized Blue Fish have arrived. I donated a couple flies to them and left them […]
[Continue reading…]They are still here
July 12, 2019 By
Thursday morning I took a last minute solo trip to see what I could find. I pulled into the first spot and hooked up on my first cast. That is often times the kiss of death for the day. But not in this case. It was a steady bite for about three hours and by […]
[Continue reading…]Weekend fun
July 1, 2019 By
Saturday morning brought Bob and his brother Marion over for a shot at some bass. We have an incoming tide this week so we had to fish in other areas. Marion brought the first couple of fish over the side and had the lead until Bob got started. We found fish in four out of […]
[Continue reading…]Foggy Mornings are fun.
June 26, 2019 By
Today Bob came down from the deep woods of Eastern Connecticut for some striper time. we headed out on a flat calm and kind of foggy morning. We found lots of working birds in several spots that weren’t holding fish. We made our first stop and found what we were looking for. A nice day […]
[Continue reading…]You should have been here yesterday.
June 13, 2019 By
Thursday brought the infamous Dr. Jim down for the first trip of the year. I had tied up some prototype flies for us to try out. It took Jim about five minutes to hook up the first of many stripers. There were a lot of hungry fish liking that fly. We were in fish pretty […]
[Continue reading…]Catching time
June 8, 2019 By
Friday Gail and I went out For a look to see if the fishing is still holding up. We found the fish right away and we had steady action for four hours. It slowed a little through the tide change but picked back up quickly. Lots of fish up to about five lbs. and they […]
[Continue reading…]First trip for 2019
May 29, 2019 By
Gail and I left the dock at the crack of 8:30ish this morning for our check out the spots cruise. The first few were barren but after the tide changed we moved and the fish were waiting for us. We did really well with bucktails and flies. Most fish were around five lbs. and feisty. […]
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