In this episode, we chat with Jack Murphy, Jack Loveday, and Sean Maiorano of Lucky Jacks Fishing, a guide service and content company. We talk fishing over beers, folks. They review their 2020 striper season from the Cape up to the North Shore, and forecast the 2021 season. They also talk about how a bachelor […]
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In this episode, we chat with Capt. Joe Diorio of Joe Diorio Guide Service about big bass. Joe also talks blurred out surfcasting background photos, comes clean about his albie and steelhead obsessions and of course, tells the story of his 72-pound striper. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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In first episode of Season 3, we talk albies albies albies with Peter Jenkins of the Saltwater Edge. We hit on strategies from boat and shore, gear, hot lures, and fly fishing tactics. We also talk American Saltwater Guides Association and the striper season so far. It’s good to be back! New episodes coming soon. […]
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Albie fishing, as anyone who has targeted the little torpedoes from hell for any number of seasons knows, will eventually give way to “albie casting.” This is how I felt last week in the flat calm, boat traffic-riddled Upper Buzzards Bay, as the albies casually crashed around us and completely ignored every offering we threw […]
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Quick little update for you stripers fiends this Friday afternoon (what day is it, really?). We’ve reached the point in the spring run where making the decision as to where and when to pursue stripers can be panic inducing. We are paralyzed by the thought of choosing a spot and choosing wrong. I’m feeling that […]
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In this episode, I chat with Capt. Peter Fallon of Gillies & Fallon Guide Service about tossing flies to stripers on the flats in the Kennebec, running down blitzing albies in Buzzards Bay, and just about everything in between. We may even chat about catching stripers in the Three Bays. This one is loaded with […]
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With albie fever seemingly breaking for the moment, it may be a good time to take a step back and talk about some strategies to make catching them just a little less frustrating. I, and pretty much everyone I’ve talked to, expect another large push of albies before the they make their final lap, but […]
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It’s an albie weekend. Again. We’re going to get some fly albies. Will they cooperate? Probably not. But I’m going to keep trying and trying and trying again until we get one to eat, because that’s the definition of insanity. Is this a wise decision—the decision to ignore our striped friends and a possible season-best […]
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In this episode, we sit down with Joe D’Agostino of Joebaggs Tackle. We chat about how to catch every type of fish in the Northeast on a Joebaggs lure, big bass on olive jigs at night, and how the famous “Patriot Fish” was named. Hint: It involves a lost bet. And Joe is not a […]
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You heard me say it, folks. Wayyyyyy back in July. What a strange season. I’ll give the full season recap at a later date, after we’ve winterized the boat, the fish are all gone and I’m sitting on the couch super depressed. But the striper fishing died down a month ago and hasn’t heated up […]
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