Challenging start

Three weeks into the new season has me scratching my head. We’ve had some really good trips with it good numbers of large bass and the next day they’re gone. The ebb tide has been better but when Gail and I fished the ebb last week all we had to show was a bluefish. The […]

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Work

Sunday evening brought Jim along with his brother Peter out for a sunset cruise. We had the tide that skunked us last week so I wasn’t super confident for our success. We struck out in the first spot but put a few fish on board at the second. The third brought us into a spot […]

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Sunday fun day

Jim had so much fun on Friday he came back on Sunday afternoon with Sean and both guys wives. After Saturdays skunk my expectations were not really high. We did have a different tide to work with. We left the dock with about a quarter mile of visibility which soon dropped to 50 yards. Memorial […]

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Tough morning on the briney

Saturday morning brought John and his son Jack down for a morning trip. We started where I finished the night before. Nothing was showing so we took a ride to check more areas. Nothing doing there so we kept going. Pretty soon we found good numbers of bass slurping bait on top. Tried a bunch […]

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OFF TO A GOOD START We put the boat in yesterday afternoon and had our first trip this afternoon. Jim came all the way from Rhode Island for his first trip of the year. We headed out to find some moving water and it took Jim 10 minutes before he landed the first fish of […]

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Spring has sprung

We just came back from our annual Atlantic Salmon trip in New Brunswick,Canada. Lots of fun on the Miramachi River. We all caught salmon, grisle and brook trout. The wind came up on the second day to a steady 40 with gusts over 50. We decided to spend the afternoon in camp. This was my […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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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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