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Cape Cod Fishing Expeditions
Fishing Report
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September
14-20,2009
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fishing has been inconsistent for the
week. The fish are around but it has been
difficult to get a read on any consistent
patterns. The usual locations are giving
up fish occasionally. There was a
fantastic morning of beach fishing with fish up
to 30lbs. The next day, same place, same
time, and nothin'! Where did they all
go!? Shannon from upstate NY came out for
some fly fishing on Sunday. We ran the
beach looking for signs of fish and missed a
bluefish blitz by 20 minutes! Crap!
After deciding that the beach wasnt going to
give it up we headed to the flats. It was
a beautiful scene with lots of terns and
sandeels on the flat but still no fish.
Thankfully we had a late inning rally and
Shannon was able to score her first striper on
the fly. She got another one and missed
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September
13,2009
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| Finally off to go tuna
fishing again and once again were struck
by bad luck. We had 7 lines out
with breaking tuna in front of the boat
and the engines cut out suddenly.
This couldnt be good and it wasnt.
We snagged a large pice of dragger net
that one of the draggers left
behind. We try again on
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September
12,2009
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| Cancelled the thursday
overnight charter due to weather.
Bogus. Fortunately, I got a call
from Captain Eddy on Reel Attitude to
work a striper/bluefish charter. It
was the first time out in a while
and we didnt know what to expect but we
hit the jackpot and boated a northeast
super slam of a bonito, false albacore,
striper and bluefish. It was a
great day with breaking fish and everyone
caught fish. |
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September
6,2009
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| Turned back
again! We gave it a shot but the
ocean kept getting worse and about 15
miles out Capt Eddie turned it around and
headed home. |
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September
4-5,2009
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| Matt came out and we
fished long and hard in the kayaks early
in the morning with little reward.
After a short break we changed location
and got back in the kayaks. We hit
the jackpot. We ran into a school of
medium size blues and found some small
striper in the first hour and then the
wind went calm and the fish came to the
surface and we pounded on stripers up to
30" on flies and sluggos. It was
epic. We got back in the dark and
crashed. You know we headed right
back out there the next day but the fish
no showed. That sucks, right?
It was still a classic day of hanging out
in a kayak on Cape Cod
Bay. |
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August
24-30,2009
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| All of my off shore
trips on Reel Attitude were cancelled due
to ocean conditions this week. What
a drag! I did manage to get a day
of kayak fishing in and fished long and
hard for 2 fish but they were
quality fish. Patterns are changing
and the fish are moving
around. |
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August
23-24,2009
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| Jason was down for his
annual fishing marathon and he must have
been wearing his fish repellent because
we got blanked in three different back to
back locations. Jason
did catch some trophy bait as you
can see. |
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August
20,2009
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Had a kayak charter
with Chris Remillard from Granby and
it was shockingly slow for kayak
fishing. There was bait around but no
fish showing on the surface. I had to
good strikes jigging but that was it.
We changed locations and Chris
finally got a striper and we got the
pictures to prove it. Even thought
the fishing sucked the kayaking and
weather was awesome. Going to fish
the overnight
tonight.
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August
19,2009
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Today was the most
incredible day of bluefin tuna I have
seen yet. Naturally I was fishing
with Captain Eddy on Reel Attitude.
We hooked 9 bluefin and landed and
released to and had one break the
leader. The other fish came off
because we got four fish on at once
one time and multiple hookups the
other times. There were breaking tuna
like breaking tuna and bass all
morning. It was incredible. I shot
some video that I post on youtube
soon.
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August
16,2009
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Ephrain Ruiz from
Duxbury fished the beach and flats
with me today. We had an exciting
start with a bluefish blitz on the
beach but nce the sun came up the
fishing died. Again, this time of
year it is most productive to fish
nights or from the
kayak.
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August
15,2009
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It was a sad on the
water as today was Coach Gorksi's
last fishing day on the Cape for the
summer. We had a great morning of big
bass and bluefish. A fitting way to
send Coach off. See you in
November!
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August
12,2009
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My friends Jose and
Lily from Punta Allen, Mexico came up
to fish. They operate a lodge on
Ascension Bay that everyone should go
to. We kayak fished and scored so big
fat bass on sluggos fished on the
surface. I didn't forget the camera
this time.
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August
11,2009
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What a day to
forget the camera! I fished with Capt
Eddy on Reel Attitude and smoked em
today. We landed 3 bluefin tuna, 56,
66, 67 inches in under 4 hours. It
was an epic day. I will post the pics
when I get them from Captain Eddy. If
you want tuna you need to fish with
Captain Eddy.
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August
10,2009
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Had a good kayak
charter with Terry Blackburn. Terry
tried out the Freedom Hawk Kayak for
the day and really like it. We got
som ebig blues and a couple of nice
bass.
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August
8,2009
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Did a bird watching
charter with my mom and aunt Bev. She
was hoping to see some arctic terns
mixed in with the pile of common
terns out here. We didn't see and
arcitc terns but we did see some
roseate turns and plenty least
terns.
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August
1,2009
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Fished with my
buddy David Muller, Peter and Andrew
Courossi off Nantucket and shockingly
had a slow day. The usual spots were
barren and we could access the side
of the island that had the fish
because of high seas. We did manage
to pop some bluefish in the rip ar
Great Point.
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July
28,2009
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Had a day at the
beach charter with my parents and
friends. At a yummy clam bake
prepared at Mac's Seafood in
Truro.
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July
27,2009
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Coach and Joe
Bertuzzi headed out with me to one of
our favorite harbors for some striper
action and again the day time fishing
was slow. We managed to pick up a
fish here and there but it was tough.
On the incoming tide a pile of big
fish rolled in on some flats but the
wind was cranking against the current
and it was challenging to set up on
the fish. It was good to see fish in
the shallows. Joey B shot some video
for his upcoming new video series for
youths and caught his first striper
ever.
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July
26,2009
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Another
disappointing day on the flats. We
covered alot of beautiful water
today. But the day was lacking the
main ingredient...fish. The summer
doldrums seem to have set in. This
time of year the most productive
fishing will be from a kayak or
fishing at night.
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July
25,2009
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Fished as a mate on
a private boat out of Outermost in
Chatham. We cruised all over Monomoy
on the inside and found no fish and
headed out to Point Rip but the rips
were a little too intense for the
crowd and we didnt get to put much
time into actually
fishing.
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July
22,2009
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| Today was probably one
of the more disappointing days of the
season. Just goes to show you, just
when you think you have them figured out
they change the rules of the game.
The only highlight of the morning charter
was Dan getting his first striper on the
fly. The evening charter with Ladd and
Laddie Thorne turned out to be a complete
bust and we were skunked. The
weather was beautiful and I always enjoy
Ladd's company but the fish no showed and
we covered alot of previously fertile
ground. Back in the kayak
tomorrow. |
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July
21,2009
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| Morning charter
cancelled so I went offshore in the kayak
again and scored a pile of big bass and
bluefish. It was epic. It
rained for most of the morning but the
fished were there. I was sight
fishing the entire time. Some of
the bass were in the 40 inch class and
the bluefish weru up to 35
inches. |
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July
20,2009
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| Today was offshore
kayak fishing day with Scott and Dan and
we scored some nice stripers in the 30 to
40 inch class on sluggos and polish sand
eels. The bass were feeding on sand
eels and peanut bunker and were showing
on the surface. We hooked some
large fish and were cut off by reckless
boaters trolling over our lines. It
was a great day on the water
regardless. |
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July
19,2009
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| I scouted a shallow
water night fishery and found loads and
loads of schoolie sized stripers up to 26
inches. They were gorging on sand
eels in less than 12 inches of
water. It was
epic. |
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July
16,2009
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| Scott and Dan
Schlessman showed up for their annual
assualt on the Northeast and we fished
long and hard at one of the hottest spots
recently and tragically we only came up
with 2 small fish. I did hook a
large fish when we first arrived and we
had a few whacks but it wasn't to
be. |
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July
8,2009
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| Today we went shark
fishing with Capt Eddy. Its great
when catching bait is almost as fun as
catching a shark. We scored a pile
of blues for bait and a bunch of
stripers. They were blitzing the
surface and we were able to cast to them
on light tackle and troll umbrella
rigs. Then we headed to the shark
fishing grounds and set out a rancid
slick rotten goodness to attract a shark,
and sure enough a big 9 foot blue shark
found its way on to one of our
hooks. We trolled for tuna on the
way home to no avail but we did see
tuna breaking off in the
distance. |
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July
7,2009
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| Fished with Capt Eddie
again today and we were 1 of only 3 boats
in the fleet that landed a fat tuna
today. Bottom line is Capt Eddie is
the man! If you have ever thought
of fishing for tuna or other offshore
fish you need to book a charter with him
ASAP. |
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July
6,2009
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| My first trip of the
season with Capt Eddie Carreira on the
Reel Attitude was epic. We ran 120
miles to the offshore canyons and scored
huge on yellowfin hooking 30 tuna with
multiple hookups. Check out the
pics. |
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July
5,2009
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| Back on the attack out
on the Cape. A kayak charter this
afternoon proved to be disappointing with
only a few small stripers caught. Where
did all the fishies go? At least we
didnt get skunked and the weather was
beautiful. |
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July
3,2009
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| We finished up our epic
week of fishing in Montana on the
Yellowstone River. Unfortunately we
just missed the epic fishing on the river
the bugs just started exploding and the
river needed to come down a little bit
more. We still managed to dredge
up a couple of acrobatic rainbows
and a nice brown. |
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July
2,2009
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| Our last day on the Big
Hole was awesome as expected. We
whacked plenty of browns and
rainbows on dry flies. This never
gets old. The scenery was
spectacular as usual with plenty of
wildlife and sweeping views of classic
Montana mountain landscapes.
Tomorrow we fish the Yellowstone
River. |
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July
1,2009
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| Another epic day with
more browns and rainbows on dry
flies. We hit the weather jackpot
this week and conditions remain
spectacular on the Big Hole. In
addition to the great fishing the scenery
and wildlife have been incredible.
We saw a bull moose, bull elk, bald
eagles, and a big whitetail buck.
More of this drudgery
tomorrow. |
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June
30,2009
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| After a
slow and buggy start things turned around for
us and we ended up with another epic day of
trout fishing. The weather was perfect
again and we got more nice browns and
rainbows on dry flies and
streamers. |
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June
29,2009
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| Another epic day of dry
fly fishing on the Big Hole. Dry or
Die! |
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June
28,2009
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| The first day of our
annual Montana trout fishing adventure
with Peter Courossi and Russell
Elwell was fantastic. The
weather was perfect and we had browns and
rainbows hitting dry fies on the Big Hole
River until sundown. The forecast
for tomorrow is just as
good. |
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June
26,2009
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| Dennis and I were back
out in the kayaks this morning.
This time we went offshore for the
morning bite of stripers. We scored
a number of nice fish on flies and plugs
and sluggos. |
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June
25,2009
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| Found a pile of fish to
throw flies at from the Freedom Hawk
Kayak. Dennis Fontain from Vermont
got about 25 schoolie stripers. It
was a good day. |
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June
24,2009
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| Another EPIC day of
kayak fishing with Coach Gorski.
For the first 2 hours we pounded on big
fish in shallow water on the flats.
These fish 30 to more than 40 inches in
size. It was amazing to see so many
big fish like this in less than two feet
of water. We lost them for about 3
hours but we found them again and had a
huge late inning rally. In the end
Coach scored his largest striper and
largest bluefish to date. Look at
that cow! |
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June
23,2009
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| Today was a
washout. High winds forced the
rescheduling of the days charters so I
took the day off. |
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June
22,2009
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| It was a pipe dream to
think a day like that would happen two
days in a row! We hit the same
beach at the same time and they weren't
there. Dammit! |
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June
21,2009
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| Today was the day every
striper fisherman in the world dreams
of. We hit the striper
lottery. Just before dawn e noticed
a soup of bait against the shore.
Then the stripers came in. There
were large feeding stripers for as far as
the eye could see. This was one of
the best days of beach fishing for
stripers I have ever seen. Some of
the schools that were moving by had an
average size of 40 inches or better and
you could see even bigger fish
mixed. How cool is it when you can
call a 40 inch fish a
schoolie?! |
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June
20,2009
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| Today I took Team BOA
on an all day boat charter with Capt
Jared on the Excalibur out of
Provincetown. We had a great
morning of stripers and bluefish on flies
and light tackle. Later in the
morning Capt Jared showed us how the
locals fish for bass jigging with wire
line and dredged up a couple more keeper
bass. Then the capt got word that
there was tuna bite close by. We
started trolling and then started seeing
schools of bluefin tuna on the
surface. It was unbelievable to see
these gamefish so up close and
personal. I did get 2 solid shots
with a fly rod with no takes. We
saw at least 10 separate schools of tuna
and some of the schools were exploding
out of the water on
bait. |
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June
19,2009
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| Fellow rock star guide
Russell Elwell owner of Montana Fishing
Adventures joined his brother Christian
and for another assault on the same
beach as last night. It wasn't as
hot as last night but Russ did catch his
first of many stripers to
come. |
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June
18,2009
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| My friend Christian
Elwell owner of Borealis
Outdoor Adventures joined me for a full
on night time beach assault on one of my
favorite spots. We crushed fish up
to 25# on light spinning rods and the
almighty sluggo. |
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June
16,2009
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| Made a predawn raid on
the beach only to score 1 small bass on a
sluggo. The conditions changed and
the fish no showed. Later in
the day I hit the ocean in a kayak and
found plenty of bluefish and a few
stripers that hit surface plugs and
sluggos. |
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June
15,2009
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| Making the best of the
easterly winds and going on a tip that
the fish were moving on the beach, Austen
Goldsmith and his week 2 crew hit the
beach and sight fished for pods of
stripers. When the action slowed we
changed locations and found 3 to 8
pound bluefish pinning peanut bunker up
against a sandbar. It was a blast
catching these angry gamefish on the
fly. |
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June
13,2009
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| When will this norteast
wind ever go away???!!! Even though
the wind speed was reasonable the usual
spots just dont fish the same. Paul
Cain and I worked our butts off in
Freedom Hawk Kayaks to finally locate a
pile of schoolies that would whack the
fly. |
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June
12,2009
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| After a thunderstorm
delay, Rick, Kurt and Al stormed the
ocean in kayaks and were rewarded with
big breaking fish with an incredible
setting. We had flat calm seas and
loads of fish to shoot
at. |
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June
11,2009
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| The
crap wind continues and we still cant fish like
we would like. But Andrew Sale from the
UK and Jay Paulson of AmazingFlies.Com were
still able to get into a few fish at one of the
last resort spots I got. Jay fished his
Titantic Slider and landed a handful of
schoolies and Andy fished a sinking line over
the edge and was able to score a dozen or so
fish up to 26 inches. At one point there
were clouds of bait moving through with busting
stripers all over
them. |
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June
10,2009
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| Austen Goldsmith and
his mates from the UK showed up for their
annual visit. Unfortuantely junk
easterly winds made the usual fly fishing
hotspots tough to fish so we had to work
very hard to find fish. There was about
an hour of magical fishing with pods of
stripers hunting along the
shoreline. We tried an oceanside
location and were able to score a keeper
sized fish on a sluggo and a couple
schoolies on a Fishmaker fly in the
waves. |
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June
9,2009
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| Paolo Cullati from
Italy caught his first striper ever and a
pile more. The bad weather held off
and we had pods of breaking fish in front
of us for much of the
day. |
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June
7,2009
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| Coach Gorski and I made
a kayak assault on one of our favorite
locations and scored some of the biggest
fish from a kayak this season.
Check out the pig that hit a sluggo on
the surface. We didnt set any
records with numbers but the average size
of the fish was way above the norm.
Coach lost some big fish due to being
undergunned. I guarantee he will be
ready for these big fish next
time! |
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June
6,2009
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| The beach decided to
give up a couple of nice fish during
daylight today. Check out the
beautiful 40 inch striper that Heather
landed on a sluggo. |
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June
5,2009
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| Did some scouting on a
flats destination today and scored a nice
keeper sized striper on a Townsend's
Fishmaker pattern. The weather was
crappy but there were fish around.
At one stage of the tide the fish were
breaking and taking
everything. |
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June
2,2009
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| So, of course we went
back to the same spot as last night and
it seemed like the streak was gonna end
but at late inning rally kept the streak
alive. The final 90 minutes
produced a quick blitz of keeper sized
fish up to the 40 inbch
range. |
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June
1,2009
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| Just when we thought it
couldnt get any better....we pounded on
big fish in the surf all night
again! This time we put some 30#
plus fish on the beach. Once again,
we were using John Guardino Custom
Plugs. For those of you who weren't
with us last night...read it and
weep! |
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May 31
Night,2009
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| After a long nap I
decided to head out to one of my night
time beach i hotspots. The winds
were cranking and I was hoping for big
fish up against the beach. My buddy
John Guardino came out with me and
donated one of his custom plugs to
try. We each scored big fish on our
first casts and the game was on. It
was a night of 20#ers! You need to
get some of John's plugs! You can
reach him at
802-279-5569. |
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May 31
Day,2009
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| Just so you think I
dont throw that epic word around lightly,
this morning was NOT epic. Weather
and conditions wise it seemed
perfect. There was a beautiful
sunrise and plenty of anticipation but
only a few fish were caught today.
We covered alot of water and saw fish
occasionally but we didn't run into the
pods of fish we expected to. Is
this when I am supposed to say "That's
why they call is
fishin'......"? |
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May
26,2009
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| And the keeper sized
bass keep coming. So far this
season every outing has yielded at least
one keeper. Zack and I fought 30
knot winds and the new moon tide to score
a pile of stripers on sluggos. We
fished along side my guiding buddy George
Ryan and his crew of fly rodders.
There were times that all 6 of us were
hooked up at the same time. It was
another epic fishing
adventure. |
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May
25,2009
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| Another epic morning of
fly fishing for stripers in shallow
water. The Fishmaker flies continue
to dominate. I will be fishing
tonight from the beach. I have a
good feeling about
this! |
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May
24,2009
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Let the epic trips
continue! JB, Trevor and Brian
got in on some fantastic fly rod
action this morning. Everyone
hooked into more that 20 fish and
everyone got a keeper. What
more can you ask
for?!
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May
23,2009
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I had some great
kayak fishing with Peter
Courossi. We fished sluggos and
crushed some nice fish on light
spinning tackle.
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May
22,2009
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| The season continues to
rock. I fished from the beach at
night and found a pile of fat bass.
All of the fish were in close to shore
and were easy pickins with the fly rod
and my buddy Dave Townsend's
"Fishmaker" pattern. The fish
ran from 20 to 35
inches. |
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May
10-21,2009
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| All of the usual hot
locations are reporting strong runs of
fish. Plenty of bait of all kinds
combined with favorable weather
conditions have really made the start of
this season productive and fun. In
one location I fished the incoming tide
brought in waves of stripers across the
flats. We attacked them in kayaks
and threw sluggos and flies from our
Freedom Hawk Kayaks. The fish
ranged from 25" to 40" with some larger
torpedo sized fish mixed in. We are
coming into the May new moon tides.
There should be some epic action and
photos to come
soon. |
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May
9,2009
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| The first charter of
the season was epic. It was only
fitting that one of my favorites, Coach
Gorski, was along for the
festivities. We had rockin action
all day long. Coach got his first
fish with in 10 minutes of hitting the
water. I think Coach's final tally
for the day was 24 stripers landed and 8
lost at the boat. And, like
yesterday, the fish were all the 25 to 35
inch class. What a
day! |
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May
8,2009
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| This was the best
opening day I have ever had. I
scored big time with tailing fish in
shallow water. There were also pods
of fish in the main channel that kept
coming and going. I got fish on all
stages of the tide. I love my
Freedom Hawk. I was able to use the
kayak to get within shooting distance of
the pods and then stand up and let em
have it. Most of the fish were in
the 25 to 35 inch class. Most of
the fish were caught on the fly. I
was using my buddy Dave Townsend's
"Fishmaker" pattern and I couldn't keep
the fish away from that fly if I
tried! |
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April
9-12,2009
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| My fishing
buddy Peter Courossi and I once
again took Punta Allen and Ascension Bay
by storm. We went down for a quick
3 day hit of tropical fishing. We
had 2 fantastic days of guided fishing
with our guide Jose and a great day of
self guided fishing on the Punta Allen
Road. We caught plenty of bonefish,
had shots at permit and jumped a
bunch of baby tarpon. |
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December 28,2008
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| Today we cruised around
the bay looking for anything. We
had shots at huge barracuda and some nice
black tip sharks. We got plenty of
wild strikes but no hooks ups.
Plenty bonefish tailing about. We
poked around for snook and tarpon and got
strikes but no hookups. Jose
eventually found a pile of snook cruising
in shallow water and we had strikes and
hookups. There was bait and life
everywhere. If anyone ever want to
experience one of the coolest fishing
spots on the planet, contact me and I
will set you up. I have all the
contacts. |
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December 27,2008
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| On the second
day Jose wanted to take us to his
special bonefish spots deep into the
backcountry. We dragged the panga
thru a series of canals and found the
spot. It was epic bonefishing for
the entire day with the average size of
fish running 3 to 6 lbs. We lost
count before lunch. I had some
larger fish trash my light leader in the
mangrove shoots and around the
boat. The bigger fish were running
over 150 yards and difficult to control
with the light leader. I changed to
a heavy short leader and these fish still
mauled the fly. |
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December 26,2008
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| What
a way to end the year. My
fellow fishing psycho Peter Courossi and
I made a 3 day assault on Ascension
Bay in Mexico. This is one of my
most favorite places on earth to
fish. The weather was great but the
wind was challenging at times. We
dedicated the first half of the first day
to permit. Our guide Jose
set us up on a flat where he had
seen a large school of permit feeding the
last couple of days. We didn't run
into the big school but Peter
had a 25lb fish follow his fly right to
the boat. We beat on some big
bonefish for the rest of the
day. This is paradise down
here. |
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November
28,2008
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| Not for lack of
trying. It was a wild day out there
with sun,rain,hail,wind,sun. We
kayaked a small river for the first half
of the day and saw a couple of signs of
life, unknown gamefish swirling on bait
and a missed hit at the kayak, but didn't
score. Moved to the ocean side of
the river and waded out to the bar.
There were lots of diving ducks when we
got there but no
fish. |
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November
24,2008
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| Hunting for schoolies
and salters. Coach will be out on
Friday. |
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November
12-17,2008
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| Hosted a trip to South
Dakota for some world class pheasant
hunting. Contact me for more info
on world class hunting
worldwide. |
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October
28-31,2008
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| The schoolies showed a
few more times but the fishing is getting
tough and its time to start transitioning
into winter
mode. |
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October
27,2008
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| Crap! Skunked
again! The morning charter was
rough. Conditions seemed perfect
but the fish no showed. I went
back out for the sunset bite and
whamo! A huge school of schoolies
swarmed the beach for about 3 hours
taking flies and whatever else you
had. What a difference a tide can
make |
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October
24,2008
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| It was another slow
daytime charter with about a dozen
schoolies caught on sluggos and sand
eels. At least we weren't
skunked. |
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October
17-23,2008
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| The fishing has been
spotty all week. Some days were
great for schoolies in the surf and other
days it was a biological desert out
there. |
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October
16,2008
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| Its about time we
scored an epic day of flats
fishing. We were surrounded by
tailing stripers for
hours! |
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October
14,2008
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| It was a slow day kayak
fishing but we did manage a couple of
bluefish on the fly from the
kayak. |
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October
12,2008
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| Karen and Nancy were
out for their annual week of charters and
we started out with a day on the flats
and had a few shots at some
stripers but they were dispersed and
spooky. We did score some nice
bluefish on the fly that made up for the
lack of stripers. |
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October
9-11,2008
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| The weather has been
crappy and I have been running the beach
checking things out. Beach
fishing has been
spotty. |
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October
8,2008
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| Its days like this
when you appreciate your fishing
buddies. I was planning on sleeping
in today when I got a call from a buddy
who said that huge bluefish were pushing
big shad, herring and bunker onto the
beach. Plenty of time to sleep when
I am dead! We chased huge bluefish
up and down the beach til the sun went
down. It was an epic
day. |
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October
2-7,2008
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| Found em! It took
some poking around but I found another
consistent night fishing location and
scored one of the nicer beach fish of the
season drifting sand
eels. |
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October
1,2008
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| It was a tragic night
of beach fishing. We fished hard
all night with sand eels and every kind
of artificial we had to no avail.
Getting skunked sucks. |
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September
30,2008
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| Fly fishing on the
flats was pretty good this morning.
We got a pile of schoolies in the dark up
to sunrise and the scored some nice
bluefish on the fly. |
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September
26-29,2008
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| The crew from Eco
Fishing Adventures was out to film a
couple of episodes with me and wouldn't
you know hurricane Kyle was off shore for
the whole time. We did manage to
score some fish on the flats and get some
good bluefish action a couple of
times. The beach fishing was slow
with a few fish being caught. You
can see Eco Fishing Adventures on World
Fishing Network and The Sportman's
Channel and on
MyOutdoorTV.com. |
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September
25,2008
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| Fly fishing on the
beach was slow. We managed not to
get skunked but the fish were not
there. |
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September
21-24,2008
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| Night fishing
again. Action was steady for a few
days but no big fish. |
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September
20,2008
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| Headed back out to do
some night fishing with Peter and
Andrew. Peter did well in the first
couple of hours on the fly. The
action tapered off a bit but it was
a good night overall. |
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September
19,2008
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| Sweet! Still
finding stripers at
night. |
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September
18,2008
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| Had a great day of tuna
fishing on the Reel Attitude with Capt
Eddy. We saw spectacular schools of
100 to 300 lb class bluefin tuna crashing
on bait. We got a double hookup and
landed both fish. It was an epic
moment in sports. |
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September 10 -
16,2008
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| Sent the Townsend crew
home and spent the next few days cleaning
gear and debriefing in King Salmon and
Anchorage. Time to get back
into striper mode. |
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September
9,2008
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| Take out day is always
sad but it was a great trip and we had a
great morning scoring a few more nice
silvers and rainbows before the take
out. |
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September
8,2008
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| It was another
beautiful rainy day of fishing in
Alaska. More silvers, rainbows and
grayling for everyone. |
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September
7,2008
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| Today
was grayling day. Everybody scored their
grayling. |
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September
6,2008
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| The rainy weather did
not prevent another day of great
fishing. Some slab rainbows were
caught along with the first arctic char
of the trip. Silvers were awesome
as usual and the grayling fishing was
improving. |
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September
5,2008
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| Another fantastic day
of silver salmon fishing. The first
grayling of the trip was caught and some
nice rainbows were caught too. The
other salmon species were starting to die
off in a big way. It was cool to
witness this massive annual die
off. |
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September
4,2008
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| Here come the
Silvers! It rained on and off but
the fishing was great. Big angry
silver salmon, rainbows and older
sockeyes, kings and pinks were
caught. |
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September
3,2008
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| Got the Townsend crew
out to camp at the head of the
river. We had a minor weather delay
heading out but everyone made it
out. Everyone started fishing,
eating and drinking immediately.
Salmon, rainbows and lakers were caught
by everyone. Life is
good. |
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September
1-2,2008
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| Russ and Matt flew out
to the head of the river to set up
camp. The weather was came up big
time out there and they were almost
forced to land on another body of water
but pilot was able to pull off the
landing and put the boys on site.
They spent the next day putting the
finishing touches on camp and checking
out the fishing. Matt was spanking
kings, sockeyes and pinks right in front
of camp. |
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August 25
to August
31,2008
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| Headed up to Alaska to
meet my guiding buddies Russ and Matt to
open up the operation at our outpost base
camp in King Salmon. We had a
smooth week getting the gear together and
preparing for 7 days on the
river. |
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August
23,2008
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| Headed back onto the
flats to see if I could run into the
schoolies I found yesterday and they
showed up again for a couple of
hours. Other than that it was a
slow day on the flats. Time to get
ready for Alaska. |
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August
22,2008
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| Fly fishing the flats
today was fair today. Ladd Thorne
scored a couple of nice bluefish near the
deeper water that ripped him into his
backing. We did see schools of
small bass chasing silversides in the
grass beds but they were very
finicky. Good luck in New Zealand
Ladd. |
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August
21,2008
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| Another epic night at
the "spot". Red Sox security stud
Zach Silbert scored a pile of nice
stripers on the usual baits with many
keeper sized fish. Don't misbehave
at Fenway this summer or Zach will kick
your ass! |
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August
20,2008
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| Today was a canyon run
on the "Reel Attitude" with Capt
Eddy. The 3 1/2 hour ride out was
fine but the seas picked up and we were
rockin and rollin in 4 to 6 all
day. We had a great day landing a
couple of nice mahi mahi and a big
yellowfin tuna. One of the
highlights of the day was when a huge
600lb class marlin came up to a whack at
the baits. Minutes after the marlin
went down the tuna hit. It was a
great day. |
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August
19,2008
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| The sunset bluefishing
trip with Paul Staid and his son Steven
was kind of slow, but we did manage a
couple of nice blues off the beach.
It was a beautiful
sunset. |
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August
18,2008
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| The big ones came in
tonight! A run of 40 inch class
fish rolled in on the "spot"
tonight. John and JP Guardino
hammered fish on his famous
needlefish. It was classic surf
fishing with big winds, big waves and big
fish. Epic! Dan K got his
first striper ever and it was 35
inches! |
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August
17,2008
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| Right back to the
"spot" for another epic night. We
scored loads of stripers with many keeper
sized bass on, you guessed it, sluggos
and needlefish. |
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August
16,2008
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| The night trip was way
better than the day trip. Peter and
I went to the "spot" and scored stripers
on sluggos and needlefish as
usual. |
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August
16,2008
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| The day trip with
Justin and Hans was mediocre at
best. We went to the "spot" on the
beach and missed the hot time. We
were able to land a nice striper and
bluefish and a few schoolies on
sluggos. |
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August
14,2008
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| Straight from the beach
to the tuna boat! Luke from the
Ptown Marina was kind enough to invite me
to mate a giant tuna trip with him on the
"Coyote" We started the day looking
for bluefish for bait but couldn't get
away from loads of big stripers.
Wish we had problems like this all the
time. We got some bluefish and put
them in the livewell and headed for the
tuna grounds. We saw loads of
whales and bait but the giants didn't
show. It was a fun day
anyway. The whale show was worth
the ride out. |
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August
13,2008
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| You know I went right
back to the "spot" again. And again
we scored loads of fish. Sluggos
and John Guardino needlefish were the
ticket as usual. |
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August
12,2008
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| The secret beach spot
yields again! Brad Kulis and I
hammered fish on plugs and sluggos.
No huge fish but plenty o'
fish. |
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August
10,2008
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| Yah Baby! We hit
the motherload tonight. We were
surrounded by big bass all night.
Most of the fish were averaging 35 inches
or better. We were kayaking the
shallows in the Freedom Hawk Kayaks
and took fish on sluggos.
There were thousands of fish. It
was an epic night. |
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August
8,2008
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| The plan was to head
out for tuna on the "Tough
Enough" but the seas were too rough
to make the run so we settled for some
striper fishing. We got a couple of
nice fish trolling wire and got into a
load of tasty sea
bass. |
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August
6,2008
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| The early morning bite
was ok in the surf with some bluefish and
bass. After the sun came up
everything slowed down. We worked
hard walking the beach and kayaking the
flats for not much reward. Where's
the fish!? |
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August
5,2008
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| The crowd got a load of
keeper bass in the rips on the "Reel
Attitude" with Captain Eddy. It was
a mob scene on the rips all day. We
counted 75 boats at one point.
Captain Eddy was able to hold us on the
fish all day. |
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August
2,2008
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| Fished for tuna
offshore on board the "Tough Enough" out
of Nantucket for the first time this
season. We found loads of feeding
whales and dolphins. We marked bait
but couldn't raise a fish. We did
see a 20 fish blitz about a 1/4 mile
out. It was spectacular. The
tuna were 100 to 300lb class fish
exploding out of the water. We
tried to intercept them but it was
anyone's guess which way they went.
Better luck next time. |
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August
1,2008
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| We had an epic day on
the flats with tailing fish surrounding
us in less than 12 inches of water at one
point. We also had some great light
tackle action with medium size
bluefish. |
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July
31,2008
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| It was another
fantastic day on the "Reel Attitude" with
Captain Eddy. We put another 135lb
bluefin tuna on the deck. It was
epic. I can't tell you where and I
can't tell you how but I can tell you to
call Capt Eddy for a
charter. |
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July
29/30,2008
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| The flats were hot on
the overnight. There were sand eels
on the bars and the fish were on
them. Everybody caught a pile of
fish. The most effective method was
picking the freshie sand eels off the bar
and using them for bait. It was fish
after fish after fish for a couple of
hours. When the tide turned
everything shut down and headed
in. |
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July
28/29,2008
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| We had a great
overnight fishing adventure that started
out with classic night time surf fishing
action for bass and blues on needle fish
and polish sand eels. After a
couple of hours we switched to fly
fishing on the flats and scored a load of
schoolies and a couple of
bluefish. |
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July
27,2008
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| It was a bluefish
massacre with Capt Eddy on the "Reel
Attitude". We fished Nantucket
Sound on a perfect day. The
stripers were on strike and did not
bite. Everyone had
fun. |
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July
26,2008
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| It was a tragically
slow day for Coach and the Bruno
flotilla. We fished as hard as humanly
possible and only yielded a handful of
fish. On the positive side it was a
beautiful and they were a great bunch of
guys. We'll get em next time.
See you for the new moon next week
Coach. |
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July
25,2008
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| The sunset bluefishing
trip with the Fischer crew was slow but
we did score one nice 32 inch blue on a
ranger. |
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July
24,2008
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| Today was a learn to
fish day for Dr Jay in Brewster. We
did about 90 minutes of "classroom" and
then went to check out some
locations. The wind was cranking so
we were limited to our options. We
kayaked to the sheltered side of a
breakwater and worked with all the
different types gear we talked about
during classroom time. We bailed
out to take cover from
thunderstorms. No fish today but Dr
Jay is ready to go. |
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July
23,2008
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| After recovering for
most of the day from my 24 hour shift the
day before I woke to giant bluefish
calling me to come get them off National
Seashore. Naturally I answered the
call and headed out in the kayak
and caught 3 huge bluefish in about
an hour and a half on a beat up pencil
popper. I taped one of the fish at
35 inches. That was one angry
bluefish. The fog chased me in but
was an epic 90
minutes. |
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July
21-22,2008
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| As soon as I finished
the tuna charter I headed back to the
Outer Cape to take Fred and his son Nick
to my hot night beach spot. We
scored fat schoolies up to 26
inches. The keepers didn't show up
but it was a blast catching the fish on
surface plugs. It was a great 24
hour marathon. Tuna during the day
and fishing for stripers from the beach
at night. |
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July
21,2008
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| Capt. Eddy is the
man! We boated a 135# bluefin tuna
trolling the shipping lanes in 5 to 7
foot swells. Angler Ian fought the
fish to the boat and I wrangled the angry
mackerel to the back door and Cap gaffed
him and we hauled him on deck. It
was epic. Can't wait for the next
tuna trip. |
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July
21,2008
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| Today was an awesome
day trolling for bass and blues on the
"Reel Attitude" with Capt Eddy. We
crushed keeper bass and monster bluefish
all day. Tuna
tomorrow! |
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July
19/20,2008
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| Another epic night of
beach fishing in the surf. The moon
was bright, the wind was cranking and the
fish were there. I scored 4 fish
over 30 inches on needlefish, polish sand
eel, and sluggos. There were many
fish in the 25 to 30 inch range. I
got a 28 inch fish on the fly in the
raging surf it was
awesome. |
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July
18,2008
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| Another great morning
on the flats. We fly fished for
feisty schoolies in supe shallow water at
dawn. There was a fantastic sunrise
with tailing and breaking fish. At
the edge of the flats we got into some
fun bluefish action. The second
half of the day was spent casting from
the beach to those huge bluefish
that are in town. We got about 5
fish in the 30 inch
range. |
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July
17,2008
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| My guide in training
Andrew and I went for a mid day kayak
cruise and found a pile of 4 to 8 pound
bluefish to have fun with. It was a
great day on the
water. |
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July
16,2008
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| The streetfight
continues! Coach and I pounded or
should I say they pounded on us for
another sundown battle. We were in
the middle of a full blown surface blitz
at one point. It was
epic. |
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July
15,2008
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| Holy Crap! The
biggest bluefish of the season moved in
and we spanked em from the kayak.
We fished the afternoon to sundown and
scored many huge bluefish over 30
inches. It was a
streetfight. |
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July
13/14,2008
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| Back to the beach for
some night fishing. Can't say it
was epic but I did score a keeper on a
needlefish and about a dozen fat
schoolies. Beats
sleepin'! |
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July
12,2008
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| Started fishing the
beach at sunrise. The fish were off
shore so we headed off shore in the
kayaks and scored a big bluefish trolling
a needlefish. That was all the
action we saw so we changed to an inshore
location and caught a handful of
schoolies on sluggos. After a break
I headed back offshore and got into piles
of huge breaking bluefish on surface
plugs. |
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July
11,2008
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| Kayak fishing for big
bluefish was awesome today around
sunset. Huge fish were
everywhere. They smashed anything
that was put in front of them. It
was a street fight out
there. |
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July
10,2008
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| Fished the same beach
as last night and found a pile of
schoolies. The larger fish were
elsewhere, but the schoolies were great
fun. We got them on needlefish and
sluggos with spinning gear and poppers on
the fly rod. Hits on almost every
cast. |
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July
9,2008
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| Back in the
saddle! If you weren't fishing with
me last night then you missed out!
It was an epic night of surf
fishing. Big wind, big waves and
big fish. I was fishing a stubby
needlefish made by my friend John
Guardino. The fish were hitting it
from the top of the cast to right in the
wash. I landed around a dozen fish
between 30 and 35 inches and loads of
smaller fish. This was one of the
best beach fishing nights of the
season. You know I'm heading back
out there tonite. |
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July
6,2008
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| Epic dry fly day.
Salmon flies crushed em all day.
There was so much sweet water and
beautiful scenery it was awesome.
It was a tragedy when the float was
over. The only consolation was
thought of chasing stripers and blues
back on the Cape.
Nice. |
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July
5,2008
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| Russ pulled a rabbit
out of his hat and took us to the Big
Hole River for an overnight float.
It was dry fly mania. The salmon
flies just finished hatching the week
before and he had a hunch that salmon
flies would work and they did. We
caught, brookies, browns and
rainbows. After a day of fishing we
stayed at a cabin on the water and ate
and drank like kings. More
fishing tomorrow. |
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July
4,2008
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| Peter and I took the
show tour and visited our friend Russ
Elwell in Montana to do some trout
fishing. The water levels were
running high on the Yellowstone so we
floated a small scenic river in Russ' new
raft. Fishing was slow but Peter
managed to land some browns on dry
flys. The float was fantastic and
scenic. We ate well and had a great
time. |
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July
2,2008
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| Freedom Hawk
mania! Dave Cameron and Dave Hadden
of Freedom Hawk Kayaks were guest anglers
today along with Alan Poole from Cornell
University and wouldnt ya know it?
It was another epic morning on the
flats. Everybody caught fish.
We had quads goin many times. After
the tide rolled in on the flats we hit
the Freedom Hawk Kayaks and pounded on
breaking fish for 3 more hours.
What a day. |
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July
1,2008
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| Second morning in a row
of epic twilight flats fishing.
Same story as
yesterday. |
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June
30,2008
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| The flats were smokin
this morning. The fish were not big
but there were tons of them.
Breaking and tailing fish were caught
with flies and sluggos. It was
epic. |
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June
29,2008
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| The fog was thick at
launch time but soon lifted as we cruised
into Plum Island Sound. Peter
scored schoolies trolling sluggos behind
the kayak as we searched for a place to
do some wade fishing. We found a
sweet sandbar on the edge of a channel on
the Parker River and scored many
schoolies on fly. The sun came out
and it turned into a great day on
the water. |
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June
28,2008
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| We launched kayaks from
the Parker River Wildlife Refuge and
headed to the Joppa Flats. The wind
was howling at 15 to 20 out of the
northeast and it stayed steady for
the entire outing. We did manage to
score a fish on a tube and worm at the
edge of the flats in the Merrimack and
got a couple more fish on the incoming
tide back in the Plum Island River.
The wind was oppressive in the
kayak. There is a more favorable
forecast for tomorrow. |
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June
25,2008
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| It was a long tough day
on the water today. The weather was
perfect but the fish were hard to
find. We fished flats areas and
beach spots from 0900 to 2200 and only
came up with a handful of small
fish. Not for lack of trying.
On a positive note we did see a pile of
fish on the incoming tides on the flats
but were forced off the flats because of
the rising water. Kayaks are the
ticket for access to those fish.
Heading out on tour this weekend to fish
the Joppa Flats, the Merrimack and the
Parker Rivers in
kayaks. |
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June
22,2008
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| Today was opening day
for the "Tough Enough" on Nantucket with
my friend David Muller. We had a
great morning trolling up 4 keeper bass
up to 35 inches and scoring piles of big
blues from 25 to 35 inches. We also
threw light spinnng tackle at big
breaking blues. What a
blast. |
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June
21,2008
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| Cape Cod guiding legend
George Ryan and I took a group of 4 out
to the flats today. It was slow
going for a while and we eventually found
fish at the edge of the shallow water and
stayed around the same area and caught a
pile of schoolies up to 27 inches.
The first inshore bluefish was caught
too. Time to beef up the
tippet. |
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June
20,2008
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| The morning trip with
Austen Goldsmith and his crew was kind of
slow. We fished the flats late on
the tide and then switched to beach
fishing. There were pods of full
size pogies, blueback herring and sand
eels moving up and down the beach.
The highlight of the morning was a nice
pod of keeper sized fish that came right
by us. We had four hookups at
once. We got one of the larger fish
in the pod. Unfortunately that was
all the action to be had. The night
charter on the flats was great.
Matt from NYC fished sluggos for a pile
of fish. One of the fish was about
28 inches. It was a beautiful
sunset and moonrise. |
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June
19,2008
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| Headed out in search of
bluefin tuna today with Captain Ramon
Rustia. We cruised out of Wellfleet
to the tuna grounds and laid out 4
spreaders and trolled. There were
many whales. Unfortunately it was a
better day for whale watching than tuna
fishing. We didn't score but it was
a great day on the water. We did
spank some bluefish on surface plugs on
the way back in. We'll get em next
time. |
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June
18,2008
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| The full moon kayak
fishing with Coach turned out to be
slower than usual. Coach did manage
to pound on a pod of keeper sized fish
and pop a fish here and there but it was
hard work finding the fish. There
were many single cruising fish coming
over the bars on the incoming tide but
they were spooky and difficult to
catch. We did end the day with a
nice fish on the fly rod with one of
Coach's fly creations it was great.
Tuna fishing with Capt Ramon Rustia
tomorrow. Sweet! |
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June
17,2008
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| Had a great kayak
charter with Zach. He trolled a
tube and worm for a big fat 38 inch
striper. He also scored some
schoolies and a smaller keeper size
fish. We switched locations and
threw sluggos on light tackle for a pile
of feisty schoolies. It was an epic
day. |
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June
16,2008
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| It was a perfect day
for early morning flats fishing and we
managed to hit some hot fishing here and
there but it wasn't a blow out by any
stretch. We had many doubles and
hits on poppers and sluggos on the
surface. It was a great day but I
was hoping for more numbers and bigger
fish. |
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June
15,2008
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| Thunder and lightning
canceled the morning charter and bogus
winds canceled the afternoon
charter. We did take a cruise out
to the beach for a quick check and just
missed a blitz of big bass on a huge pod
of big pogies. "You shoulda been
here an hour ago!" Tomorrow looks
good. |
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June
14,2008
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| It was an early morning
charter on the flats today. Peter
and Lew bravely embarked on a wading trip
with me at 0130 with the hopes of scoring
bass feeding in the super shallows.
After a surreal hike in the dark out to
the fishing grounds we heard breaking
fish and Peter hooked up a couple of
schoolies in short order. Lew and I
headed down the flat in more fish and Lew
scored his first striper on the
fly. The fishing was slow for
a while and then we changed locations and
had shots at fish in shallow water.
Sluggos worked as usual. At the
next location we were greeted by the
sunrise and breaking fish moving with the
tide. All in all it was an ok
fishing day but a great day on the
water. |
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June
13,2008
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| I
fished with the Wild Women of Watertown, NY
today. It was a beautiful day on the
water. We fished sand eels on a daytime
tide and only managed to dredge up a handful of
schoolies, not for lack of trying, the girls
fished hard. |
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June
12,2008
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| I scouted a flats area
from midnight to 0200 and scored a fat
fish on a sluggo and a pile of smaller
fish. It was awesome with fish
exploding on the sluggo in the dark right
in front of me. In the dead silence
of the night a fish blowing up that close
will scare the crap out of you.
It's great! |
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June
11,2008
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| Kowabunga! A
prehistoric run of fish came across the
flats today. It was a picture
perfect day for flats fishing.
After a long hike out the flats we ran
into the fish. Many of the fish
were 30 to 40 inches. The only bad
part of this story is that the fish were
finicky and extremely difficult to catch,
however, Austen Goldsmith and his party
were able to land some of the big
ones. By the end of the day they
figured out a presentation that would
entice strikes. As frustrating as
it was it was still and epic day as we
were surrounded by thousands of fish all
day. |
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June
10,2008
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| I had a great day sight
fishing from the Freedom Hawk Kayak
today. Did I mention I love this
boat!? I had many shots at finicky
fish. It felt great to get one to
bite the fly. There were many
follows right up to the kayak. It
was another beautiful day of sight
fishing. |
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June
9,2008
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| Coach Gorski and I
smoked em in the kayaks today. We
got fish in open water and on the
flats. It was an awesome sight
watching wave after wave of stripers
flood the flats. The sight fishing
was awesome. They were keyed in on
pods of small sand eels and were very
finicky, however Coach was able to score
with a variety of plastic baits and I was
able to score on the fly rod with white
Fishmakers. It was a great
day. |
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June
8,2008
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| It was a beautiful day
weather wise, but fishing wise it was
frustrating. We were able to locate
large fish on the flats but they were as
spooky and finicky as ever. We had
some follows but no takers. We
tried many flies and covered alot of
ground but to no avail. I will try
a different part of the Cape tomorrow in
the kayak in search of piles of
fish. |
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June
5-7,2008
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| The smokin hot fishing
lasted for another day and then the east
wind and clouds killed the day time flats
and sight fishing. Austen
Goldsmith's group from England struggled
to land less than a dozen fish.
That's fishin'. The early morning
anglers had the last of the hot
fishing. The next day was foggy and
cool and the loads of fish that were
around last week seem to be taking a
break. I did manage to locate some
large cruising fish and took 2 fish in 35
inch range with a fly rod on a Tom
Sledsic popper. Later in the tide
in bright sunshine I had many shots at 30
to 35 inch fish on shallow sand flats
just like the tropics. I was the
coolest to be floating across the flat
standing up in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. I would have never seen any
of these fish in time if I wasn't
standing. The fish were extremely
finicky. I did manage to stick 2
more fish sight fishing and one more
trolling a sluggo in shallow water.
Quality not quantity today. Sorry
Coach! |
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June
3,2008
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| OMFG! The cape has
exploded. No time to post fishing reports
because the fishing has been so hot. I
hate the fact that I have to sleep. The
sand eels were all over the flats and the fish
were slurping them up. There were big
fish mixed in with loads of schoolies.
Check out thepics. During the day
I anchored at a drop off and slammed fish
for six hours in the same spot!
Coach Gorski broke his record for an
outing of over 40 fish. Peter and
Dick from NYC scored big time on the
flats sight fishing for as many fish as
they could catch. Dick picked off a
nice 35 inch fish with nice cast and
played him perfectly. The video of
the release will be up soon. The
big fish are in the usual locations and
Capecaster scored a half dozen fish over
40 inches from a shore location.
Yesterday one of the best fisherman on
the Cape told me he had the best day he
has ever had fishing for stripers.
His first 6 fish were over 30 inches and
he had to stop because he couldn't reel
in anymore. And he was fishing
poppers on a fly rod. Sweet!
Gotta get back out there, more
later. |
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May
30,2008
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| How about
that, the wind changed direction and the fish
disappeared. It was no fishfest today,
however it was a fun day on the water with
Jason and Alec Griswold from
AckKayak
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scattered schools of legal fish were cruising
around but got no good shots at them. A
few large fish followed the flies in and
followed the mackerel but no takers. The
ticket to the big fish would have been to live
line those mackerel. We managed a handful
of schoolie stripers and a bunch of 14 to 16
mackerel all on flies. Jason and
Alec enjoyed fishing from the Freedom Hawk
for the first time. |
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May
29,2008
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| It was a fishfest out
there today. I anchored up on a drop off
and fished in the same spot for six hours
and caught as many fish I wanted. I
left fish breaking. The Freedom
Hawk was key in fishing this area in
comfort. The fish were small
compared to yesterday but what they
lacked in size they made up for in
numbers. The fish were feasting on
massive schools of sand eels.
They hit flies, sluggos, surface
plugs and tins. I'll be back
tomorrow for sure. |
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May
28,2008
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| Fished
the beach in the morning and was able to sight
fish for pods of fish moving down the shoreline
in the bright sunshine. Switched to the
kayak when the wind died down. It was
another epic day on the water. There were
big fish rolling on the surface and they hit
flies, sluggos and tins.
New video
is
up. |
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May
27,2008
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| Scouted the beach and
saw loads of birds and fish working at
different locations. Keeper fish
are around. Many different types of
bait are present including anchovies,
silversides, squid, mackerel, sand eels
and more. I am going out in the
kayak tomorrow. |
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May
17-23,2008
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| Things
have finally turned on out here. Fish are
starting to show up in large numbers at all of
the usual places. I had one the best days
I've had in a long time. I paddled into
an acre of breaking fish in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak and released about 20 fish in the 25 to
38 inch range. It was an epic
morning. The fish were feeding on sand
eels and hit sluggos, flies, and sand eel
plugs. There is fresh video from my trip
on thevideo
page . Beach
fishing was still spotty, one day
you could have 40 fish in a tide and the
next day get
skunked. |
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May
6-16,2008
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| The
weather was not very conducive to early season
fishing action on Cape Cod during the
last week and a half. There were
occasional fish taken here and there, but all
in all it was a very slow start to the
season. However, things have changed
dramatically in the last 48 hours with big fish
being taken in the usual canal spots and I just
finished an epic late nite to dawn flats
fishing trip where I found myself
surrounded by tailing fish in shallow
water. It was a great opportunity to use
my Freedom Hawk Kayak and be able to stand up
and cast to these fish. There is a short
video on the
video
page of the first
keeper of the season taken while fishing
from the Freedom Hawk. The weather
has turned to crap again but the fish are
here. |
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May 1-5,
2008
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I scouted from the
Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown and
the water temps are still a little
cool for any consistent action.
There are sporadic reports of a fish
here and there but it hasn't happened
yet. I did have a great time
paddling in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. This boat will be a huge
fish catching tool this season.
The Cape Cod National Seashore is
full of life. There are loads
of migrating birds, feeding whales
and seals all along the
Seashore. You can feel it
getting ready to bust wide open with
fish. The first charter of the
season on May 4 with Coach Gorski
came up a bust, but Coach did manage
to catch and release one of the first
keepers of the season on his own the
day before. Bragging rights go
to Coach for that score. I'll
spend the week continuing to scout
for fish. When it busts open it
will be huge. You definitely
want to get in on the early season
action. There will be waves of
fish on the beaches and early season
hot spots.
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