What’s this!? A new report? This is it, folks. The first official report of the 2019 fishing season is hot off the WordPress. It’s all uphill (downhill?) from here. This is exciting for a few reasons, namely that right now, at this exact instant, you have the ability to go down to one of your […]
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I had no idea what a ‘take’ was until I fooled my first striped bass on the fly. Sure, before that moment, I’d caught plenty of fish on a plug or a softbait and we can all agree that it’s a great feeling. Tough to beat a smashed plug on top and a nice hookset […]
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She must have taken the deceiver as it dropped unattended through the water column–some 30 pounds of Cape Cod spring-run striper. A big bass, the kind I was after, had engulfed all three trebles of Capt. Bill’s plug. ‘I can’t see the hook points anymore’, he tells me, pulling her up onto the gunnels. ‘I […]
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We’re at that time in the season folks. Thursday afternoon, as I took the skiff out to the mooring for the hundredth time this year, I found myself thinking about how many more times I’d get to do it this season. Our lives get busier in the Fall. Getting out of bed is harder when […]
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What a wild time of year. This past week saw an influx of funny fish action (the bonito are still around in big numbers and in very unexpected locations, and there were at least two reported albie catches). This means we’re most likely less than a week away from the initial invasion of Albert.
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