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2020
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2020 was an awesome year on the water in spite of world events. We didn't miss a tide and
everyone caught fish. Many epic days. Not so many large fish but fish o plenty.
2021 should be epic as well. Here's to hoping for more large fish. I am working on
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August 31, 2019
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Andrew tallied 40 schoolies on the flats at dawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HUyWsGWek
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June 8, 2019
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June 6, 2019
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June 5, 2019
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June 3, 2019
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June 1, 2019
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May22, 2019
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Blown out in the morning. Fished the evening tide and score some fat schoolies. |
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May21, 2019
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Another wicked windy day....with fish o plenty. |
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May20, 2019
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Kyle ripped it up with sluggos on a jig on a wicked windy day. |
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May19, 2019
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First time fly rodders and rock star spin anglers Jeff and Keith scored their first fly rod
stripers and crushed it with the spinning rod. |
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May18, 2019
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Ripped it up with Coach today. |
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May17, 2019
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Team Griswold showed up to fish and lit it up. |
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May6, 2019
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First trip out for the season with Coach. We fought windy conditions to score a few schoolies
to start the season. |
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April 13-20, 2019
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Another epic Outer banks sharknado, with endless bull sharks up to 90 inches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkEp9ZcSA54&t=1s
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September 25-28, 2018
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Another epic fall trip to the outer banks. Caught big reds and sharks with loads of
bluefish and puppy drum mixed in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_sg6f18ho&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH5eAlcpmcY&feature=youtu.be
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September 25-28, 2018
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Bill and Andy came down for a 4 day fall fishfest on the flats. |
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September 12, 2018
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More epic blitzing schoolies on peanut bunker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqUX5lPe44&feature=youtu.be
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September 11, 2018
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Epic late summer schoolie action on the fly. |
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September 10, 2018
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Epic fall schoolie blitzes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s26_dAHN3xo&feature=youtu.be
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August 11, 2018
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Epic morning on the flats. Crushed many fish on the Jumping Minnow. |
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August 10, 2018
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Epic morning with Coach Gorski. Sluggos and swim shads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuU6-KCs10U&t=8s
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July 29, 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cavXO7DjqI&t=50s
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July 28, 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_od2BduVU8&t=44s
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July 16, 2018
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July 15, 2018
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July 13, 2018
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July 12, 2018
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July 11, 2018
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July 4, 2018
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July 3, 2018
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July 2, 2018
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July 1, 2018
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June 30, 2018
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June 29, 2018
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June 28, 2018
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June 20, 2018
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June 19, 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0N5RVhNr_A&t=173s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_VcByfEEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjc_y6C8Xsk
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June 18, 2018
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June 16, 2018
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June 15, 2018
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June 14, 2018
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June 13, 2018
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June 2, 2018
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Made the best of foggy morning and were in position for the brief sight fishing that was
available. |
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June 1, 2018
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Another morning schooliefest on the fly. Finished off the day in the creeks. |
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May 31, 2018
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Warmed up with some schoolies on the dropping tide and found the fish for sight fishing on
incoming |
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May 30, 2018
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Epic full moon action with Andy and Bill. Day 1 of 4. |
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May 29, 2018
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Today was a fishfest. One angler tallied 73 fish and the other 45. Nothing huge but
numbers were good. |
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May 28, 2018
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Even with challenging conditions everyone caught plenty of fish on the fly. Biggest was 29
inches. |
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May 19, 2018
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May 17, 2018
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May 16, 2018
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May 15, 2018
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May 14, 2018
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May 13, 2018
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Cape Lookout 2018
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Cape Hatteras 2017
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Cape Lookout November 2017
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October 19, 2017
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https://youtu.be/yH11zePQA3c
https://youtu.be/6ydhvrQi-P8
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October 9, 2017
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October 7, 2017
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October 6, 2017
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https://youtu.be/Bo4MeguFv30
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October 5, 2017
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October 4, 2017
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https://youtu.be/nD8wO-ujy2Q
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September 8, 2017
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September 7, 2017
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https://youtu.be/b16xoCis8Wg
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September 4, 2017
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https://youtu.be/T8ivz9pWOM4
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August 22, 2017
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August 21, 2017
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https://youtu.be/46IJKnOHa_0
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August 20, 2017
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https://youtu.be/yVyQ2Mu3UqY
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July 28, 2017
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July 27, 2017
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https://youtu.be/_zeBMbqfUIQ
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July 26, 2017
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July 23, 2017
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July 22, 2017
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July 21, 2017
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July 12, 2017
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https://youtu.be/3nlCuYxdln0
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July 10, 2017
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https://youtu.be/Th0T7-TW5Tg
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July 9, 2017
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July 8, 2017
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July 7, 2017
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https://youtu.be/wZ77uBEEyeQ
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June 28, 2017
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June 27, 2017
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June 25, 2017
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June 24, 2017
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June 23, 2017
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https://youtu.be/aJWPeTNKxyg
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June 22, 2017
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https://youtu.be/H1fNv0WKsmw
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June 15, 2017
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June 14, 2017
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June 13, 2017
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June 12, 2017
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June 11, 2017
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June 10, 2017
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https://youtu.be/B0d4kbzW2DY
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June 8, 2017
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https://youtu.be/W3DEAEIt-mU
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May 31, 2017
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May 30, 2017
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May 29, 2017
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https://youtu.be/tTpp4omVnvo
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May 28, 2017
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May 27, 2017
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May 26, 2017
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https://youtu.be/rRjRF73Pu_U
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May 25, 2017
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https://youtu.be/3FjnpR4pedg
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May 24, 2017
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https://youtu.be/cmZbSvfeYR4
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May 13, 2017
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More schoolie action on the
fly this morning. |
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May 12, 2017
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Doubles all day. Got after the
schoolies again on the fly with piles caught. Got one bigger one. More should be
showing up soon. |
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May 11, 2017
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Ripped it up again. Chased some
larger fish in the channel from the kayaks. Got pile of schoolies on bars on flies and
swim shads
https://youtu.be/jeifmgcZwPk
https://youtu.be/Y9Kvs5szbPI
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May 10, 2017
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Great first charter of the season with
piles of schoolies. We got em on flies and swim shads. The fish were tailing in the
shallows digging for baby sand eels.
https://youtu.be/GBcGUtIkA1Q
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April 29, 2017
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Had a good first quick outing trout fishing.
Got a brookie and a brown in short order. |
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April 14-21, 2017
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There is no such thing as a trip to the
Outer Banks that is not epic and this last trip was no exception. We crushed big sharks
and big bluefish all week. Did not find the reds again but who cares we were catching big
fish from the beach all week.
https://youtu.be/8qmonPpPBkQ
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November 23 - 26, 2016
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Had another epic visit to Cape
Hatteras. Landed 27 sharks in 3 days of fishing. No reds but loads of big sharks
made up for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro18UBFk1jo
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October 29 - November 5,
2016
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Had another epic surf fishing adventure on
the Outer Banks. Caught a bunch of big redfish and sharks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B18Qd9gsijQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9P78sU2gXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0XzTKi_q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeR1m0E10LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sNWAhe84ms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qMZ8HAjtI8
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October 17,
2016
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Had an epic day with Coach. Caught piles of
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September 30,
2016
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Continued crappy conditions kept me on
foot. Found a pile of schoolies for a late inning rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-eZymiaDHc
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September 29,
2016
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Weather too bad to go out in the
salt. Had a great day on the pond with actin from largemouth bass, pickerel, bluegills
and perch. Spooks and spinners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-9xD3slvdc
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September 17,
2016
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Epic late summer shallow
water action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnYpxU44cIg
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September 16,
2016
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Epic late summer shallow water
action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgdTqw5f3Lw
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September 15,
2016
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Tough North wind today. Worked hard for a
few fish. |
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September 2,
2016
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We worked for the fish we got today.
The wind was against but we manged a few nice fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX2_Fpoa32k
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September 1,
2016
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Sick tailing action today. Crushed em on the
fly. |
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August 31,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URA3MFGLKMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzvqnqXPKrU
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August 21,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9YZ6aNpsI
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August 19,
2016
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August 18,
2016
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August 17,
2016
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August 3,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii90rFcFA6k
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August 2,
2016
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July 21,
2016
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Epic sight fishing today after a round of tailers at sunrise. Many shots. Missed
some big ones. Hooked a big blue in shallow water and broke it off after a fun
battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVoCTKur6I
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July 20,
2016
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After a tragically slow start the fished showed up. We go into a pile of shallow water
stripers on flies and sluggos. Landed a big blue on the fly as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBqn_95Wl8
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July 19,
2016
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Trolled up a bunch of 25-25 inch class fish on a sluggo on the way out. Found fish at dawn in
the shallows. |
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July 8,
2016
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No sight fishing today because of cloud cover but we did get a pile of schoolies. |
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July 7,
2016
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Good schoolie action on the fly and light spinning rod. No big fish and tough sight fishing
in and out of the clouds. |
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July 6,
2016
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Epic sight fishing. Many shots. Tough fish again but everyone got some. |
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July 5,
2016
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It rained on us, no sight fishing, but we caught a shitload of schoolies without much
work. |
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July 4,
2016
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Sunrise action and late tide sight fishing. |
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July 3,
2016
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Epic predawn action on the flats. Tailing fish at dawn, how can you go wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4mob4FlgY
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June 25,
2016
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Huge fish on the flats. The most
difficult fish of the season. I threw everything I had at them and only had a few
hookups. Many super exciting follows and strikes.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=ygU8c6OOHic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJaNgb_Wnsg
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June 24,
2016
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Epic sight fishing today. The fish came in
hard. We had many shots and heart stopping moments with big fish in our face. We did
manage to land a few hard earned fish. |
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June 23,
2016
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We got a pile of small fish to start and then
changed it up for sight fishing which turned out to be a bust. The fish did not show as
expected and we moved around quite a bit. We ended the day pounding on schoolies
again. |
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June 22,
2016
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We had a good day on the flats and got some
schoolies and had some sight fishing. |
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June 21,
2016
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Thunderstormed out. |
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June 20,
2016
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Tough condiitons for sight fishing made for a
frustrating day however we did score one nice fish sight fishing when we got a window of
sun. |
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June 19,
2016
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A great morning with tailing
fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbziYwR_aLc
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June 12,
2016
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June
10, 2016
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June 9,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_RfE3YJWE
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June 8,
2016
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June 7,
2016
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June 6,
2016
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June 5,
2016
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We got the numbers up today with fish for everyone
all day. The fish were small but extremely cooperative. |
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June 4,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYPfmRwnNmE
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June 3,
2016
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Another epic morning of tailing
fish. |
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May 30,
2016
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May 29,
2016
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May 28,
2016
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Sight fishing was good
today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcKVudrIbSI
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May 27 ,
2016
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Sight fishing was good today |
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May 23 ,
2016
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May 22 ,
2016
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Hero to zero in 24 hours. Big wind from a
bad direction changed everything and we got blanked. We fished hard and did not find the
fish. |
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May 21 ,
2016
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The first epic tailing day of the season.
We crushed tailing fish for hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC9A_IqQEAc
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May 20 ,
2016
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We a great morning on the water with
predawn action and some sight fishing later on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EPAK91KLw
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May 10 ,
2016
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Conditions changed today and the fish were scarce.
We managed a couple of fish and that was it. |
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May 9 ,
2016
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Chased more fish in the kayak under birds
with sluggos and swim shads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ44gDi-5cs
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May 8 ,
2016
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Finally found a pile of nice fish.
Chased schools of fish feeding under birds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUvDDbccEg
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May 7 ,
2016
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Did well in the fog and cold today. All the
guys got fish. |
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May 6 ,
2016
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Terrible wind direction to work with.
Couldn't fish the usual spots. Fought wind and cold for a few small fish. |
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May 5 ,
2016
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Small craft advisory but I had to see what was out
there. Mistake. Shoulda stayed in bed. Saw loads of silversides but no fish, just
wind and waves. |
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April 30 ,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhGrWr3vhw
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April 16-23 ,
2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3-XrbR8go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmR3RILLybE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTDMBqQeSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3HudYlimU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pew5rCp63M
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November 26-28 ,
2015
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November 1-7 ,
2015
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October 14 ,
2015
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October 13 ,
2015
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October 12 ,
2015
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October 11 ,
2015
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October 10 ,
2015
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September 30 ,
2015
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September 29 ,
2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Bq1pKnTRQ
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September 28 ,
2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZSDPOow-5M
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September 27 ,
2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaDVFxa53Ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTLx0cQP8Qs
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September 26 ,
2015
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September 25 ,
2015
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September 24 ,
2015
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September 13 ,
2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAPPkNFO64w
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September 12 ,
2015
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September 11 ,
2015
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September 2 ,
2015
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September 1 ,
2015
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August 31 ,
2015
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Another good morning on the flats.
Fish for everyone on flies and sluggos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FiesbTtgI
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August 30 ,
2015
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More tailing fish at
dawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV7Nq9XiGeo
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August 29 ,
2015
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Pile of tailing fish at dawn. Epic
numbers for many hours. The video clips say it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UwPWZltA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0EsoKUsIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOcw_wRAV7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5XuDkxKS5E
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August 28 ,
2015
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A good start to the moon cycle. Tailing fish
at dawn. |
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August 14 ,
2015
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Epic sight fishing at sunrise with tailing
fish. |
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August 8 ,
2015
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Largemouth bass fishing is hot. I scored 8
2-3 lbers and 2 pickerel on a Hula Popper around
sundown. |
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August 1 ,
2015
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Thick, Quick and Nasty! That
was how Coach labeled the brand of fish we were into today. More epic tailing
and shallow water action at sunrise. Coach and I ripped it up again out
there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnhVyIl5sM
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July 31 ,
2015
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Epic tailing action at sunrise. We
had pods of tailing fish rolling through and ended the day with some sight fishing
action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjKJ7pRzShw
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July 30 ,
2015
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More good action on the flats. Not so many
tailers today. |
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July 29 ,
2015
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We had good predawn action on the fly topped off
with tailing fish at dawn. |
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July 17 ,
2015
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We had a great day sight fishing today. Not
spectacular action but we had some great shots and hookups. |
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July 16,
2015
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Bad wind conditions forced to the beach at night
and we got blanked. |
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July 15,
2015
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Did ok on the flats today with sluggos and
flies. Did well in the afternoon on largemouth in the fresh. |
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July 7,
2015
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Epic sight fishing today. Tragically all the
video files I shot are corrupted, so no vid or pics. |
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July 6,
2015
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And the sight fishing was good
again. |
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July 5,
2015
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More good sight fishing. |
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July 4,
2015
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Sight fishing was good today. What a way to
spend the 4th. Stars and Stripers Forever! |
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July 3,
2015
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Another great day with more action than
yesterday. |
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July 2,
2015
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It was a beautiful day on the water and we got
some fish to go with it. |
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July 1, 2015
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We didnt have the best conditions and we worked
hard for our fish but we did earn some epic tailing action and scored big time when we were on the
fish. |
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June 30, 2015
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We had beautiful conditions and did ok on
schoolies on the fly. We had small pods of breaking fish following sand eels
pods. |
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June 27, 2015
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Checked in on the largemouth scene and did well on
piles of 1 to 2 pounders. |
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June 20, 2015
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We started offshore and got 1 nice fish
early and then there were 200 boats around us and the fish were down. I made an an
audible and moved us to the flats for incoming tide and scored big time, Waves of fish
started rolling in and we stayed on fish for almost 3 hours. No huge fish but pod after
pod and wave after wave of fish. It was epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XQif4RvvgE
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June 19, 2015
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We had a good day with sluggos and
flies. We got fat schoolies up to 30 inches. Sight fishing was difficult but we managed
to get fish throughout the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPiikMhN4Mw
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June 16, 2015
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It was calm and foggy and I found a pile of fish
tailing early but they were difficult to find later in the tide. |
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June 15, 2015
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We had a decent morning on the flats with
some early tailing action. Sight fishing got shut down but we found fish on the channel
edges. We got a 36 inch fish late in the tide on a sluggo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cFUs7gxNMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_EnTFNhNxk
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June 14, 2015
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It was a beautiful morning with tailing
fish at dawn. Andrew and I got fish throughout the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKMIeceySk
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June 10,
2015
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The wind was right again and the fish were there
again. Another epic night of beach fishing. |
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June 8,9,
2015
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We got our ass kicked on the flats this morning.
High winds and no fish beat us up. We did see some big fish at the edge of the flats briefly but
that was it. The wind was up and ripe for beach fishing so I talked the boys into ditching the fly
rods and heading to the beach after a nap. The payoff was big. We got piles of fish up to 38
inches. It was an epic night of beach fishing with plugs. |
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June 7,
2015
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The fish are back. However they were as
finicky as the last time I saw them. We had good shots at many fish and had a few good
hookups. |
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June 5,
2015
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Today was tragic. We went all in for sight
fishing and had decent sun and got blanked. We did not see one fish. WTF. |
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June 4,
2015
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It was a sunny calm day but it was cold, 39
degrees at launch. We covered alot of water and did not find any fish for the first 5
hours. We had a late inning rally and got a handful of schoolies sight fishing at the
end. |
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June 3,
2015
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It was a difficult morning with few fish
caught. A cold front came through and the temperature dropped 30 degrees. It was 40
degrees at launch. |
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June 2, 2015
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Poor weather conditions shut down sight fishing
but we managed to get fish every spot we fished. No big fish caught but many seen following
in the schoolies. |
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June 1,
2015
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Epic tailing fish for as far as the
eye can see. A hard wind made access difficult but it was worth the battle.
Piles of fish came in to feast on the sand eels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diJcivES-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76oRoAf-0o4
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May 31,
2015
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The wind came up and we hit the beach and scored.
It was an action packed night of fish in the surf on plugs. We got fish all night
long. |
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May 30,
2015
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It was a good dark tide on the flats and we got
fish on sluggos all morning. |
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May 29,
2015
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Similar results today. Lots of fish
and shots but difficult to get the hookups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2VEkimHgM
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May 28,
2015
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We saw many fish of different sizes today rolling
through the sand eel pods on the flats. They were extremely difficult to catch. We had
many shots and many follows but not many hook ups. |
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May 25,
2015
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Hit up the outer beaches to fish in the big
wind. We got a few fish and the first keeper from the beach. |
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May 21,
2015
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Another day of sight fishing. Not the
best conditions but I managed to find fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAOVB38SxQ
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May 20,
2015
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Went looking for the big boys on the flats
today and had some shots but the smaller fish were quicker to the fly. I had s short
window of good conditions and managed to get some great sight fishing in.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=LVZHhYYLeHY
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May 19,
2015
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The wind changed for the worse but I still
managed to get out there and score. I saw the
first big fish of the season on the flats. I trolled a sluggo on the edge of the flats
and caught a pile of fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plirei_syLo
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May 18,
2015
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Crappy conditions didn't prevent us from getting
lots of fish today, however we couldn't find the big boys. We worked hard and covered
alot of water. |
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May 17,
2015
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More epic fishng as the sand eels continue
to come off the flats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjmUvGJ_0YQ
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May 16,
2015
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First epic day on the flats. We had a
sand eel hatch and the fish were there. Tailing fish and breaking fish
everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BX9Ep_mQCM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsC2C2Pdno
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May 7,
2015
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Finally! We got the first schoolie of the
season. We worked very hard to find that fish. Still no loads of fish. They
should be here in full force next week. |
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May 5,
2015
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Had a great day freshwater fishing.
Caught a pile of laregemouth bass and pickerel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2BVdkf43s
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May 4,
2015
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Another barren morning on the water. Not
yet. |
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May 3,
2015
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Thought we would get them this morning but it
wasn't to be. Andrew and I saw an epic moonset and sunrise to make up for the lack of
fish. They will in soon |
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Back in action. The winter sucked and I
didn't fish for almost 4
months. What a drag. Hit up NC to start the
season and will be chasing stripers this weekend. |
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April 19-24,
2015
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Another epic beach fishing and camping trip
to North Carolina. We lived on the beach for the week and scored
some big redfish and a pile of bull sharks. We
fished hard for the fish we got.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5GFif9RMBY
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November 28-29,
2014
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Headed to Cape Hatteras to escape the holidays and
had a great first night of fishing landing 4 nice redfish up to 30 inches. After the cold
front things shut down. |
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November 1-8,
2014
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Spent 8 days camping and fishing on
Portsmouth Island on Cape Lookout National Seashore in NC. We battled a massive coastal
storm and fished hard. We got a few nice redfish, sharks, hundreds of small bluefish, sea
mullet and pufferfish.
https://picasaweb.google.com/104054597801368808968/CapeLookoutFall2014?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKbT2Y3I4JGEqAE&feat=directlink
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October 13,
2014
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We worked hard to get the fish today but
had to found some good pods of fish to pound on. Most of the action was on the dropping
tide. Incoming was slow except for a few schoolies at the creek mouths.
http://youtu.be/rg2ptW3TK6s
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October 10,
2014
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Another great day on the water with
bearutiful conditions. Not quite as many fish as the last 2 days.
http://youtu.be/x4LAQOe5xu0
http://youtu.be/yKhELLgvj0w
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October 9,
2014
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Fish everywhere. We had tailers at
dawn. Many pods of schoolies
busting on baitfish. Spooks, sluggos and gurglers.
http://youtu.be/XjcElovNXDo
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October 8,
2014
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Thunderstorms rescheduled the charter but I
camped out at the launch until I got a window to go out for a short run and I ran into piles of
schoolies pounding baitfish on the surface. I had about 2 hours of epic action fishing
from the kayak iwth a spook.
http://youtu.be/XO1r6i8cuLk
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September 28 ,
2014
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Hit up freshwater today and scored a couple of big
pickerel and a bunch of largemouth bass. Big bass were chasing baby herring on the
surface. |
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September 27 ,
2014
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Perfect conditions and no fish. WTF.
Could have picked off schoolies in deeper water but decided to stick to the flats and got
blanked. |
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September 25 ,
2014
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More great action today. Fish
everywhere. Epic action in the creeks today as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmW2o8-DkA
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September 24 ,
2014
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Epic day on the flats. Great action
in the dark before the sun came up. Was able to stay on fish all day.
Got em gurlgers and
spooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swjPrXLX0DI
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September 14 ,
2014
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I braved the small craft advisory and
battled out to the edge of the flats on a clear sunny day. It was a sergeant schultz type
of day if you know what I mean. I did manage a late inning rally back in the creeks and
got a dozen schoolies on a spook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxafWQLQo0M
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September 13 ,
2014
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Crappy weather kept us off the flats to day so we
hit the freshwater. Unfortunately we got blanked. There were piles of baby herring
dimpling the surface and an occasional trout rising but no action for us. |
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September 11 ,
2014
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Another epic day on the flats. There
were piles and pilles of fish in shallow water again crashing bait on the surface. I was
on them all day...again. The wind went hard in a favorable direction for my night beach
fishing spot so I took a nap and then hit the beach. Conditions were perfect except the
part about fish being there. I got one schoolie and missed one. It can't always be
epic. right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIVhLn9nII
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September 10 ,
2014
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And the fish kept coming. Wave after wave
of fish chasing snapper blues, baby herring, sand eels and more! This was the most epic tailing
action yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKTnOlMLLo
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September 9 ,
2014
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Even more tailing fish! We crushed as
many fish as we wanted on poppers and spooks. Didn't have to fish the creeks the fish
were all over the flats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93-4JnhA-7k
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September 8 ,
2014
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Tailing fish at dawn! We had an epic morning
of stripers in shallow water. We got fish on the flats early then got em again in the
creeks. |
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September 7 ,
2014
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After a hard fought battle we crushed it
during a late inning rally. We fought wind and rain and no fish for a bunch of hours and
then had fish after fish for about 2 hours on a topwater. Epic rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s1zUzJsJk0&feature=youtu.be
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August 31 ,
2014
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We had an epic couple of hours from the
beach. We got a bunch of fish from 30-40 inches. A favorable wind broght the fish close
to shore and we stayed on them until lightining chased us away. |
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August 30 ,
2014
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The flats were dead today. |
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August 26 ,
2014
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Incoming was the ticket again today. There
were not as many fish as yesterday. We managed a few fish for the day. No big fish
caught but they were there. |
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August 25 ,
2014
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Another dead dropping tide. I managed to
score a couple of fish from the few pods I ran into. Incoming was much better. Fish
were on the move and it was very challenging with no
wind. Scored some nice fish on fly rod poppers. I did see the biggest fish I have seen
all year on the flats. Of course he came out of nowhere moving straight at me. I did a
great job of scaring the crap out of him though! |
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August 24 ,
2014
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Well, we were where were supposed to be
except...the fish weren't were THEY were supposed to be! We had a beautiful twilight sky into
sunrise and no tailers. We spooked a few fish early on and hooked a couple of fish but that
was it. We did see a pile of nice fish move by us late in the tide and we got a couple of
fish from that pod. |
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August 23 ,
2014
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Andrew and I had a good day on the water and we
scored a few fish everwhere we stopped. Nothing spectacular but we had enough action to keep
us happy. |
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August 14 ,
2014
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Another slow day on the flats. We managed to
score a few fish here and there but it wasn't up to standards today. |
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August 12 ,
2014
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The action slowed a little today. We managed
to get a few fish early on and then they were hard to find on the flats. |
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August 11 ,
2014
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Even more epic action on the flats
today. Crushed them on a gurgler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjBkEIUpROs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_NBm8x7-6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BI4rGEFYQ
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August 10 ,
2014
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Another epic day on the shallow
flats. We got a pile of fish on poppers which is always epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vst_v1h6p4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSK09coljo
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August 9 ,
2014
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Epic flats action this morning. There
we big fish in shallow in the dark and tailers at dawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVkLlokSao
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July 27 ,
2014
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Today almost sucked as bad as the last 2 days
except we managed a few more schoolies than the first day. |
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July 26 ,
2014
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Well that sucked even worse that yesterday.
Blanked. We put it all on black and crapped out. No fish. |
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July 25 ,
2014
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Well that sucked. Found like
4 random schoolies early then nothing. Conditions
seemed good and I thought we were in the right place at the right time, loads of bait and
birds. But what the hell do I know? Stupid fish. |
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July 17 ,
2014
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We had a decent day on the water today. We
got a bunch of schoolied to start and then decided to hunt for larger fish on the flats. The
fish we there but not as plentiful as we would have liked. We did manage to get 2 nice large
size schoolies sight fishing with a sluggo. |
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July 15 ,
2014
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It was blowing 25 today and the boys still
wanted at it. So we headed out and put ourselves in a favorable casting position and
pounded on schoolies for the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz0mhtFqZ0M&feature=youtu.be
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July 14 ,
2014
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Clouds shut down the sight fishing and we
didnt find and fish in the shallows at dawn but we rallied and found a pile of schoolies to
make the most of the day. We did give the flats a try and saw the fish but it was way to
late for a shot by the time we saw the fish. Stupid weather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34iVnut-6w&feature=youtu.be
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July 13 ,
2014
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Epic sight fishing today with many shots
and some nice fish landed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpNGpGma4dw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efA21T_1xNk&feature=youtu.be
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July 12 ,
2014
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It was a great day on the flats with
tailing fish at dawn. We had shots all day and landed some nice fish on the
fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcWUlbjDYQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krQKyotncGo&feature=youtu.be
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June 29 ,
2014
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Had an ok wading trip today. We saw some larger fish mixed in with
schoolies in shallow water but the smaller fish were quicker to the fly and
sluggo.
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June 28 ,
2014
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It was flat calm and sunny today which was
good and bad. Good in that we saw piles of fish and bad in that piles of fish saw
us. The fish were super spooky today and posed a challenge to even the best
anglers. We did did score fish and had many shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_jmw2zsM3Y&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZhs7EYhLM&feature=youtu.be
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June 27 ,
2014
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Had a good run at the flats on a windy
day. There were many nice fish around. I managed to hook a few but the fish were
hard to stick. I had many shots which made for an
exciting morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2DZ0I8AXI&feature=youtu.be
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June 26 ,
2014
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Fished hard for 7 hours and only got 4
hits. It looked like it would be an epic fail but I rallied and moved to a different
location and found piles of larger sized schoolies feeding on sand eels in super shallow
water. I had about 2 hours of epic action with a sluggo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duqB_IIrqrc&feature=youtu.be
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June 21,
2014
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Kayak fishing for schoolies was good today.
Great fun with sluggos on top. |
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June 17 night,
2014
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Epic night beach fishing! We switched
it up and headed to the beach and scored. We got fish up to the mid 30 inch
range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohbCugG9yeU
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June 17 day,
2014
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Not so epic sight fishing on the flats
today. High winds and clouds shut us down. We did manage to score 1
fish. |
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June 16,
2014
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Epic sight fishing on the flats
today. We had many shots at piles of fish today and had plenty of
hookups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ZBXMr-A4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFPgY0lTqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_9sS9VZ6I
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June 15,
2014
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We dealt with a tough wind today and no fish on
the flats. We did have a late inning rally and ran up the numbers banging on
schoolies. |
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June 14,
2014
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We had blitzing fish in shallow water and
fog for most of the day. They were tough to
catch when the bait was thick but we did get our share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzaqhkWQ4SM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_TPhkYBZ3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0qHLiPsI74
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June 13,
2014
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The wind was cranking but from a fishable
direction. We fished the extreme conditions and scored piles of fish for everyone.
No big fish today but then numbers made up for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFwWwC2g3-E
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June 12,
2014
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Flats fishing was good today with some nice
keeper size fish caught on the fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cVAnBBQpE
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June 1,
2014
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First keeper ever for Mark!
Congratulations! Check out the video. Today was the first epic flats fishing day of
the season. We had piles and piles of fish on a perfect sunny day. What a
day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWdlbzjH-4
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May 31,
2014
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Piles of schoolies saved the day again. The
wind came up and kept us off the flats. |
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May 30,
2014
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After a slow start we
scored the biggest striper on the fly yet this
season. It was a great take and battle. We had shots at other nice fish as
they appear to be moving in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGafNe3_2I
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May 29,
2014
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Found piles of schoolies to play
with. A good day to get the numbers up. No
action on the flats, too windy. Freshwater fishing in the afternoon was epic. Check
out the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OeHr_6qaig
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May 28,
2014
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Crappy northeast wind and rain kept us off the
flats today. We poked around some sheltered locations and picked up a few
schoolies. |
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May 27,
2014
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We had perfect conditions this morning and
we hit fish every place we stopped. No large fish today but it was a great
day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18TbI6W0DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rvw-qfhzWc
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May 26,
2014
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Another good day on the water. Fish
for everyone. Not many large fish around today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-oJ0OsFsw
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May 25,
2014
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The bigger fish have finally showed. We had
some epic night action on the flats today. |
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May 19,
2014
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More endless schoolie action and no sign of larger
fish. The wind shut down any chance of flats action but we managed to score ever spot we
fished. |
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May 18,
2014
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Found piles of schoolies after some
searching. Still no larger fish. Quantity definitely made up for any size
issues. I hit a new freshwater pond after leaving the salt and crushed largemouth bass
and got a nice fat one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEi4hp7cp-4&feature=youtu.be
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May 16,
2014
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Got out before the wind came up and saw
some signs of epicness out there. I had piles of schoolies chasing sand eels in shallow
water for about 2 hours then the wind came up and I had to get out of there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQgoO2VSXhU&feature=youtu.be
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May 15,
2014
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More schoolie action. Plenty of fish
for all but still no big boys yet. Loads of bait out there. It will break open
soon. Hit a pond for some freshwater action and scored some big pickerel and
largemouths. SO after thinking the trout werent feeling the love I hit another pond after
nap time for some great trout action. Scored some nice browns, a brookie and a smallmouth
day. It was a good day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqm5n6a8OsA&feature=youtu.be
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May 14,
2014
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The stripers finally made it. We scored a
pile of schoolies. No big fish yet. Got some nice fat largemouths in the
freshwater. |
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May 3,
2014
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The largemouth bass fishing was good today.
Pickerel were also active. |
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April 29,
2014
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First try for stripers came up bust. We
fished hard in crappy conditions with no paypff. Fortunately the Cape has great freshwater
fishing so we scored a few laregemouth bass and called it a day. |
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April 20-23,
2014
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Drove down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to
chase redfish and wnything else we could find. A coastal storm that blew 30 sustained with
heavy rain for 48 hours made us work for it. The weather finally broke an we scored slot
redfish, pufferfish and sharks. |
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April 12,
2014
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Had a great freshwater outing on the Cape today. Scored 7 nice pickerel and a
largemouth bass. The herring runs are cranking right now. The stripers are
coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyxIRH2Amn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnV68H-3-wc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ls2re6r04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Rvxd3ZM_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxkr8obzYY
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March 21,
2014
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On the last day we decided to hack our way
back to the some epic backcountry bonefish locations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-aessuL-jo
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March 20,
2014
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Permit day! We got 3 permit in
the boat today. We had shots at more. They were on rays crusing the
flats. Cast at the ray, not the fish! As soon as the fly hit the water the permit
would shoot out from behind the ray to grab it. Scored a big barracuda today as
well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZavLctuhZY
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March 19,
2014
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Bonefish in the morning and shots at permit
in the afternoon. We saw a bunch of permit but wind and spooky permit werent going
to make it easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuhketJ8KgE
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March 18,
2014
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Scored a nice snook today and lost a nice
snook today. The bonefish were cooperative as usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux3zFmhpavU
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March 17,
2014
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Epic day on the water with a big permit and
shots at others. We scored barracuda on the fly and a zara spook. The weather was a mix of sun
and clouds and we made the most of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_NvLzh3a0
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March 16,
2014
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First day on the water in Mexico. It
was windy with broken clouds so we concentrated on bonefish in shallow water for the
day. We got plenty. We had a few shots a permit but no hookups. It was a
great day. Not many pictures today as we were all busy with bonefish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA51Nj0DMcE
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February 15,
2014
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Had a long weekend to kill so Andrew
and I drove to Cape Hatteras to see what it's all
about. I was reading fishing reports leading up to my visit and they have been crushing
redfish in the surf. As fate would have it, a wicked cold front and day after a full moon
killed any action for me. However, it was obvious that this place is epic and needs to be
revisited. Thinking about April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ754hC4TXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxPiLSxpkDY
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February 10,
2014
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Went back to the bonefish flat and didn't see any
bones this time. Saw some black tip sharks, rays and plenty of small
fish. |
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February 9,
2014
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Hacked our way through a gnarly jungle road
to get to an epic salt pond inlet. There was lots of action around. Lots of
different kinds of bait and birds. Saw a big tarpon explode on bait way out ocasting
range. We could see baby tarpon popping bait way up underneath the mangroves but they
never made out to give us a shot. I did score a big barracuda on a zara spook. It
was a quick release as you can see. Headed to an ocean front location with good structure
for sunset and scored a couple of jacks on a zara spook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyuukH1bxm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIOrNmMU6E4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCc5avQeMU
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February 8,
2014
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Headed down to Vieques, PR for scouting
mission. Checked out a DIY bonefish flat today and
had some shots and one hook up. The conditions were sunny and windy. |
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January 16,
2014
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We fished with Richard Garrin of Tyt Lynz
Charters down in St. Martin and scored some nice tarpon on light spinning tackle and fly
rods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8_vfTrVs4
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December 22,
2013
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Got another good day for trout
fishing. We scored a bunch of fat rainbows, tiger trout and a nice male
brown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLnCf_sT3I
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December 15,
2013
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Got a break in the weather and took advantage of a
mild December day and caught some mice trout in a kettle pond. Got 2 fat rainbows and a nice
tiger trout. |
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December 7-8,
2013
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Got in a quick trip to Mexico and fished
with my buddy Jose. We caught bonefish after bonefish on the first day. Nothing
huge but lots of em. We both were fishing and we doubled up for most of the day.
The second day we spent alot of time chasing permit but couldn't
get any to eat. I got a nice snook
in shallow water and we scored plenty of bonefish again. Barracuda were everywhere
and we had some great hookups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMsVKnNXmJU&feature=youtu.be
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November 7 - 11,
2013
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I drove 900 miles
solo to a beach in North Carolina for a scouting run. It was epic
beach fishing and camping trip. I did more watching and learning the water than
fishing. I mostly bait fished mullet strips to see what was out there. I
caught redfish, flounder, seatrout and sharks. Many, many options. Planning
to head back in April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozKw3b4j3w
https://picasaweb.google.com/104054597801368808968/NC2013?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCM6w2qWVnJrlcg&feat=directlink
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October 19,
2013
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Andrew and I had fun with some late season bass on
the flats. More topwater action on a light spinning rod. |
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October 14,
2013
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Toured a bunch of fershwater ponds and finally
found a pond with no people and it was epic. Largemouth bass were chasing baby herring on the
surface all over the pond. Scored largemouth-o-plenty on a classic rapala floating
minnow. |
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October 13,
2013
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Crap conditions and slow tides shut down the
salt. Freshwater fishing was ok. Managed to score a couple of rainbows but nothing like
last week. |
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October 8,
2013
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Rough conditions shut down the salt. The
freshwater was good with a double header of largemouth bass and pickerel in one pond and fat
rainbow trout in another. |
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October 7,
2013
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Had a terrible striper charter in the morning with
tough conditions and no piles of fish. We did manage to locate a pod of large fish in a run
with the spook but couldnt get them to bite the fly. Eventually found a smal pod
of schoolies. Headed out for a fresh water
consolation session and scored a dozen fat rainbows on light spinning gear. It was
epic. |
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October 6,
2013
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Piles more fish and epic conditions made
for an epic day on the water. Andrew and I scored many fish up to 30 inches on flies and
zara spooks. We were on fish all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWJZEVtTyA
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October 5,
2013
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fish came in again and it was another great day. We were on fish for most the charter with Coach
scoring his first bunch fly rod stripers. Bigger fish would have made it epic. |
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October 4,
2013
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First half of the charter sucked but we had an
epic late inning rally. Piles of schoolies came in on bay anchovies. We had great
shallow water action. There were some larger fish mixed and we got a nice
one. |
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September 21,
2013
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Switched from flats fishing to night beach fishing
tonight. Ran into the fish as soon as we got to the spot. They were visible in the
clear water under the moonlight. The fish were
everywhere but were extremely finicky. There were silversides against the beach and the bass
appeared to be chasing them but they were not hitting the usual stuff. We switched around and
eventually scored some nice fish. |
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September 20,
2013
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Tailing fish at dawn! A massive school of
fish flooded the flats and were tailing as far as you could see. We stayed on them for over 2
hours and scored fish up to 32 nches. We found the pod of schoolies again for another late
inning rally. It was a great day. |
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September 19,
2013
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Found the tailers this morning. We stayed on
them as long as we could and then got pushed back by the tide. |
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September 18,
2013
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After a slow start and no fish on the droppig
tide, we found a pile of fish moving in with the tide and managed to score a pile of
fish up to 28 inches on sluggos. On the way
back in we had a late inning rally and pounded on a school of schoolies. Fish after fish
after fish. |
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September 7,
2013
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Hit the flats again today with better wind
conditions and clear skies. Got a shot a one fish, he ate and didn't get hooked and that was
it. Saw one other fish running for his life. Oh fishing. |
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September 6,
2013
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When I got to the launch this morning the
wind was up about 10mph over the forecast. Decided to go for it anyway. I battled
my way out the break at the edge of the flats and managed to
score 2 nice fish in the 30 inch
class. Epic runs into the waves. Had a few more shots and takes but no more
hookups. It was worth the trip for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eGuKXKGAHU
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September 5,
2013
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For the aftenoon shift I hit
a freshwater pond to play with some largemouth and
smallmouth bass. I scored a pile a of small largemouths and 4 nice ones up to 4
lbs. Also got a nice smallie. |
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September 5,
2013
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Tailing fish at dawn! Love it! We
found a school of about 200 fish tailing in super shallow water and were able to pull a pile of
fish form the fringe of the school. We had some epic break offs on large fish and the last
one greyhounded right throught school and blew it up. It was a sight to
see. |
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August 31,
2013
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We hit up the freshwater today and scored a pile
of warmwater species, largemouth bass, pickerel, yellow perch, sunfish and a big shiner. It
was a good day on the pond. |
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August 24,
2013
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Fished the flats today and had no hookups.
Lots of tiny bluefish harassing bait all over the flats. They were fun to watch. We hit
the freshwater in the afternoon and scored a pile of small largremouth bass. It made up for
the fishless morning. |
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August 23,
2013
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Did a charter with Capt Eddie on Reel Attitude
today and crushed bluefish and stripers. Lots of multiple hookups and the bass were up to 25
lbs. It was a good day. |
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August 7,
2013
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Finally another epic predawn assault on the
flats. It was dead flat calm and the fish were active in the shallows tailing for sand
eels and chasing snapper blues and silversides. It was a sight. I was on fish for 3
hours on the drop and had shots at spooky fish on the incoming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp9Vobo-sE8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVW7lyXj3bs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5hbaj_dvw
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August 6,
2013
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Nap time then
laregemouth bass fishing again. Epic topwater action on the
jitterbug. |
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August 6,
2013
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The wind died a little and it was clear again but
I only managed to get fish on the drop. Scored a couple of nice fish just before dawn with a
sluggo. I was drifting into fish and casting to them from the kayak. I had great expectations for
the incoming tide and only saw fish here and there. Maybe tomorrow. |
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August 5,
2013
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After a long nap, I hit a largemouth bass pond for
some sundown action. I had great action on a jitterbug and black power worm. They were on the baby
herring in the shallows. |
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August 5,
2013
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Hit the flats for the premoon tide and got my ass
kicked. 15-20 mph wind coming in from the ocean. It was clear
out so I had to go and see. I ran into a few fish
early but that was it. It was a beautiful morning with streaking asteroids before the sun
came up. |
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August 4,
2013
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Summer time largemouth bass fishing was good
today. Lots of fish, no big ones. The fish were chasing baby
herring. |
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July 30,
2013
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Well, we know where the fish aren't! Our
bass to miles ratio was 1 bass to 11.5 miles. Not a good ratio! We did see lots of bait
and piles of very small bluefish working the bait. |
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July 27,
2013
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Epic sight fishing on the flats
today. We got what we came for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bpd8XZlFw&feature=youtu.be
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July 23,
2013
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Another epic day on the flats.
Tailing fish at dawn again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL9BTOWIXyg&feature=youtu.be
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July 22,
2013
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Crushed it on the flats today. Epic run of fish on
both sides of the tide. Fun for everyone. |
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July 21,
2013
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Had a good predawn flats assault today. Did
well on the dropping tide but the sight fishing was shut down by clouds for incoming with the
fishing becoming difficult. |
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July 20,
2013
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It was hot as hell and windy today so I fished
freshwater and caught piles of small largemouth bass on
plastic worms and small plugs. |
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July 19,
2013
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Crushed it on the beach at night with plugs.
Epic wind in your face action with fish crashing the plugs on top. Fish up to 20lbs. |
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July 14,
2013
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Sight fishing was great today. The fog
broke, the sun came out and the fish were there. |
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July 13,
2013
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With a crappy sight fishing forecast I decide to
hit the freshwater today and scored a load of largemouth bass. It looks like the herring have
hatched as the bass were chasing tiny baitfish in the shallows. |
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July 12,
2013
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Had a great night beach fishing trip and scored
fish up to 38 inches. |
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July 11,
2013
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Poor conditions made for a slow day on the
flats. We saw a few tailing fish but had no shots at them. Managed a decent fish on the
flats and few schooies on a channel edge. |
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July 8,
2013
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We hit another high mountain lake today and did
well again. Lots of rainbows and brookies on the fly. |
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July 7,
2013
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We fished a smaller river today with lots
of cool rapids. We did well with dry flies again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZRXMx0M4dE&feature=youtu.be
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July 6,
2013
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Floated the Yellowstone today and scored many
rainbows and browns on dry flies and ultralight spinning
gear. |
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July 5,
2013
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Epic high mountain lake fishing
today. We sight fished for piles of big rainbows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0u3qWFFMT0&feature=youtu.be
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June 28,
2013
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It was a tough day on the water with high winds
and torrential downpours. We had one hookup and saw a few fish in close quarters. We
gave it our best shot. |
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June 27,
2013
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Tailers in the fog. After the fog burned off
the sight fishing was challenging with many shots at picky but catchable fish. |
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June 26,
2013
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More tailing stripers. Sorry if I keep
repeating myself. I will never get sick of tailing stripers. |
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June 25,
2013
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It was an epic day of sight fishing with
more tailers and fish moving in with the tide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG7TQM3ugb0
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June 24,
2013
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Took a break and fished a freshwater pond and
scored a couple of smallmouths on topwater. |
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June 23,
2013
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More tailers than
yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1--Ma52c3E8
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June 22,
2013
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Epic tailing fish at dawn. |
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June 21,
2013
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More action on the predawn tide. We did all
out business on the dropping tide. Lost some nice fish. |
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June 20,
2013
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We had fish in the super shallows for the dark
tide. The fish were tough to catch as they were keyed in on the piles of sand eels on the
bars. We did hook some nice fish and had some epic break offs. |
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June 8,
2013
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More epic conditions today. We had fish in front of us for most of the day. Schoolies
were blitzing the surface early so we stayed on them for a while to get on the board and get
some numbers. The we went looking for the big boys and found them. It was a good
day.
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June 9,
2013
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We had epic conditions for sight fishing
today and the fish were there. There were tailers at sunrise and we had shots at some big
boys on incoming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh_LGWJmmM
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June 8,
2013
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Flats fishingi n 40 mph wind and sideways
rain is hardcore for sure. We found some small fish in shallow water on the dropping tide and were able to get a few more on the incoming tide. It was a a
battle against the elements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oREJ88tu5k
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June 2,
2013
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The wind was really up today, 20 to start
and 40 at the end of the day. Gave the guys a chance to opt out but these guys are
warriors they came to fish so we hit the flats on foot. Wind was from our back and
it was another bright sunny day wth great vision. We saw a number of fish but being out
there on foot meant limited time at each location because of the big tides. We had
good shots at fish and scored 2 nice fish
and some schoolies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXxkOFqoLY&feature=youtu.be
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June 1,
2013
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WInd was up today. It was a bright sunny day
and we had shots a number of fish throughout the day but the
smaller fish were quicker to the fly and the larger fish were finicky. Wind was 20-25 on the
way back in. |
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May 31,
2013
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A repeat of yesterday. What more can
I say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSBv0wmvPI
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May 30,
2013
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Epic sight fishing today. Beautiful
conditions and lots of fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an6DlgoeQoQ
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May 29,
2013
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The wind and rain is back. Gave the
morning charter the choice to opt out today. 20-25 mph wind and driving rain. I had
to head out anyway to see if the fish are still out there and scored 3 nice fish in the 30-40
inch class and the got the heck out of there. The forecast for tomorrow is
good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVjwHax4Hy0
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May 28,
2013
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Today was my finest day of sight fishing
for stripers ever topped off with a 47 inch 40lb class stiper taken on the flats in less than 2
feet of water. It took the fly 15 feet off the rod tip and it was beyond epic.
Besides that big fish I caught a pile of fish over 30 inches and had endless schoolie
action. The fish were everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAjeJZbVTE4
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May 27,
2013
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The sun finally came out however the water was
still cool and the bait wasnt on the flats. We did see enough nice fish on a scouting mission to feel good about tomorrow. |
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May 26,
2013
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We worked hard for our fish today. The wind
was relentless again. We were able to find a few fish anyway and scored another first
striper on a fly rod. |
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May 25,
2013
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No morning flats trip due to the monsoon.
Did a night beach run in the monsoon and
got the wind behind us for some fly fishing. Picked
up a few fish in 3 hours and decided to change locations and found fish in the wind and rain.
Everyone hooked up. |
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May 24,
2013
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Had to cancel the morning charter due to the
monsoon. Sucks. Got out for a scouting trip in the afternoon and found a good supply of
fish. Saw some big ones mixed in with the schoolies. Will try here
tomorrow. |
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May 23,
2013
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Went on another scouthing mission in the big dark
in the big wind and ran into piles of fish on the flats in the dark. When it got light out
pods of fish were crashing bait on top. Had to shorten the trip due to the high winds,
tragic. |
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May 22,
2013
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Freshwater. Had a great session fishing for
big largemouth bass and pickerel with the fly rod and
gulp worms. There were loads of herring still in the pond. |
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May 22,
2013
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Saltwater. Scouted a new location today. Had a solid 90 minutes of action on a
flat with a number of pods of fish that were easy pickins on the fly rod. The rest of the
tide was quiet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOcwCp-ZEmI&list=PLB373146BE072CB7E&index=3
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May 13,
2013
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We had a small window to get out before the wind
came up and were able to score another first striper on
the fly. Only 6 fish for the day. We did see the first signs of fish starting to move
into shallow water during the day. |
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May 11,
2013
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Oh stripers...just when you think you got them
figured out. No fish where we found them the last few days. Wind came up too.
We did score a nice first striper on the fly rod that made the day. Only 2 fish for the
day. |
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May 10,
2013
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New day, new tide, new pattern. The fish
were not where they were the last 2 days. But we did find them and had a great outing,
chasing schools of surface feeding stripers in the
kayaks with fly rods. |
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May 9,
2013
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While you were sleeping...I was crushing
it. Check out the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaklGWz4EBQ&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZubgeA4shk&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo5YW-BgLxA&feature=youtu.be
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May 8, 2013 part
2
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Unable to contain my excitement from the morning I
decided to check out a hot tip on a freshwater pond and scored big time. Big angry
pickerel and largemouth bass crushed a zara spook jr. and black power worms. I caught many
fish. The pond was loaded with herring too. More striper fishing in 14
hours! |
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May 8, 2013 part
1
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Finally, the stripers are in! Coach
and I found a pile of fish in shallow water feeding on young of the year sand eels.
The action was good for the first half of the trip but we went looking for more and bigger
fish and came up empty. It was a good start for sure. |
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May 4,
2013
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Ripped it up in the freshwater today. Scored
a few dozen largemouth bass on small crankbaits and black power worms. No big fish but lots
of em. Going for stripers on Wednesday. |
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April 28,
2013
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Mocked by rising trout yet again. It was
another epic display of surface feeding fish, too bad I didn't have the key. This will
change. |
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April 27,
2013
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There was alot of fishing going on today but not
alot of catching except for a yellow perch and a dropped smallmouth. The herring are still
running strong. There were loads of trout rising on hatching bugs on the last pond we hit and
they mocked me. They wouldnt hit anything and I threw everything I had. Anyway
it was good to see so many fish. |
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April 26,
2013
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Was out on the flats for the full moon looking for
any signs of stripers. Nothing yet. There were loads of mergansers and other predatory
birds with gulls over them that got the blood pumping a couple of times but there were no
fish. I hit a couple of freshwater ponds on the way back to the outer cape and only managed
to hook a common sucker on a crankbait of all things. |
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April 21,
2013
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Had a good day for a short outing on cold windy
day. Andrew and I managed to score a nice pickerel and a nice brown trout. The herring
were still moving. |
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April 20,
2013
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It was a great day on the ponds. Caught a
nice pickerel on a zara spook jr., largemouth bass, brown trout and yellow perch. The herring
were running strong. |
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April 14,
2013
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Air and water temps still cold. Fish still
sluggish in the ponds. Fortunately a pissed off hungry yellow perch prevented me from
getting skunked. |
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April 9,
2013
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The stripers are in Rhode
Island! http://ristripedbass.blogspot.com/2013/04/newsflashschoolies-arrive-at-oceanfront.html |
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April 6,
2013
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Sacrificed fishing to set up camp for the
season. All set to go. The local ponds have been stocked. Bring on the
stripers! |
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March 30,
2013
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Let the trout fishing begin! Most of the
ponds have been stocked with the frst round of fish. The water is still very cold and the
fish arent that active yet. We did manage to score a nice brookie. |
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March 25,
2013
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We fished from shore today focusing on access
points along the Tamiami Trail and other canal sytems. We scored a pile of ladyfish and a
couple of small snook. Bill hooked a nice schoolie tarpon at the end of the day that came
off. |
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March 24,
2013
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The wind was blowing 25 to 35 all day so that shut
down many of my options. I ended up launching from Chokoloskee Island and paddling about 15
miles up the Turner River. It was a great paddle but did not find fish. Many thanks to
Capt Charles Wright from Chokoloskee Charters for loaning me a kayak for the day. Capt
Charles had many options from kayak fishing charters to flats boat charters to mulit day trips into
the Everglades backcountry. |
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March 23,
2013
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Continued the hunt for the big boys and found them
again but once again couldn't get them to bite. Highlight of the day was a beautiful slot
redfish on the fly. So much water and so little time. |
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March 22,
2013
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Went on a hunt for giant tarpon today in the
Everglades area. We set up on a couple of bays where the big boys are known to frequent and
saw some rolling fish and occasionally one hitting a baitfish. However, the fish had other
things on their minds besides eating our fly. It was cool to see these big fish. We did
manage to hook a couple of seatrout and snapper. |
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February 4,
2013
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Fished the Everglades canals by car today and
had fun with small tarpon and snook. It was a slow fishing day but the area we covered has
great potential. Saw loads of manatees and gators. Lots of bait and birds as
well. |
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February 3,
2013
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Explored an area of
SW Florida today. We scouted some backcountry rivers and bays looking for snook and
tarpon. A cold front passed through recently and the fishing was tough although we did
manage a couple of small jack cravalle and mangrove snapper on a fly and missed some good
strikes on the day shift. After a dinner break we headed out on the night shift and
fished for snook in the dock lights along the endless residenial canals. I got my photo
fish, a nice snook on the fly and we scored a bunch
of small angry jack crevalle. It was a good intro to the area. The fishing could
be epic with the right conditions. We are fishing the Everglades/Big Cypress area
tomorrow on foot. |
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January 13,
2013
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The first day of fishing for the 2013 season was
great. You never know what to expect on a January day on the Cape but we did good on a short
outing. We fished a 2 story pond system and scored a
nice hungry pickerel and a nice brown
trout. There |
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Mexico
December 2012
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I didnt
fish my usual location in A Bay as my buddy Jose was out of town, so I fished the
Cancun area for a change of pace. I had challenging weather conditions,
everyday I fished was windy 15-25 and a mix of sun and clouds but that's
fishing. Also had full moon to deal with
but still managed to have some epic moments. I fished a few days in the lagoons
around Cancun. On the first day I had shots at a few rolling tarpon under
the mangroves but no takes. I got a few
snapper and small barracuda and then got blown out. Another day I
had shots at snook moving along the mangrove edges
but they would not eat. That was on the full moon. I was able to pick a nice one out of the mangroves a couple of days later. I did a flats day at Isla Blanca and stuck a few nice
schoolie tarpon in the mangroves in the morning
when the conditions were perfect. It was epic. After
that I chased permit on the flats but
couldnt set up on one for a shot. We found a school of tarpon rolling in a deep
channel and conditions got worse so we had to bail out. Both locations definitley
have epic potential with good conditions. There were piles of bait and life,
definitely a healthy ecosystem. Heading Southwest Florida with the Seafox
next month!
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December 15,
2012
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Another cold weather run on the kettle ponds
yielded some great December bass fishing. I got a bunch of largemouth bass and a
pickerel. I missed a number of fish too, including a big fish that just missed at the
boat. |
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December 14,
2012
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A brief early moring session on a local kettle
pond yielded a couple of nice bass and a nice pickerel. The action wasn't hot but a big fat
bass in december made it worth it. Went looking for trout and salmon in another pond and got
skunked. |
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December 9,
2012
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After a slow start, I had a big rally and boated
2 nice largemouth bass and nice pickerel in
a 15 minute window. Also missed a large pickerel at the boat. Another good day for
December. |
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December 8,
2012
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Hit the kettle ponds today and found another midge
hatch with finicky trout rolling under them. After getting blanked in that pond we switched
gears and moved to another pond to fish for warmwater
species and found some largemouth bass, pickerel and yellow perch. The fishing wasn't hot but
we were catching fish in December! |
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December 1,
2012
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Fished local kettle ponds for trout and scored a
couple of brown trout on small kastmasters. There was a midge hatch and the fish were rolling
on the bugs. Not very interested in hardware. Fly rods next time
out. |
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October 13,
2012
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Fished hard from sunrise to sunset with mixed
results. My guy wanted to roll the dice on the beach and crapped out. We had great
access to the beach and were rolling pre dawn but there were no fish for the shore based angler on
the outer beaches we covered. We made a big location change and hit the flats on another part
of the Cape and finally found fish. There were a pile of schoolies stacked up on the channel
edge. We found a couple fish on the flats too. There was a huge pod of birds working a
few miles away but it was too far in fading light to go for it. If we stayed past dark we
could have killed em. |
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October 8,
2012
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Had a quick start with everyone hooking up but
then we couldn't find the fish for oh about the next 4
hours. Fortunately we found the fish working under birds and had a fantastic 2 hour
late inning rally. A pile of schoolies moved in on silversides and we tripled up time after time. It was epic schoolie action on the fly. |
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October 1,
2012
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After working hard to find the fish, our predawn
kayak assault on the flats paid off and we ran into a blitz on the outer bars that yielded a bunch
of fat schoolies. The fish were gorging on a mix of bait and readily to the fly. We got
a few more fish on the incoming tide and almost picked a few off sight fishing but the wind came up
and we took off. |
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September 30,
2012
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It was tough night on the beach we got a nice fish
early on and had some good strikes but the fish moved on and we didnt get on them
again. |
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September 28,
2012
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We dodged the weather this morning and had a great
offshore kayak trip. 3-8lb bluefish provided some great action on light spinning gear and
plugs. |
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September 22,
2012
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Albies in the morning and stripers at night.
Got a couple more albies in the morning out in the kayak on light spinning gear. After a
siesta we hit the beach to scout some night fish locations and found fish. |
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September 17,
2012
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The albies are in! Scored 4 from the kayak. 2 on
spinning gear and 2 on th fly. Epic. |
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September 16,
2012
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Andrew and I hit the flats again for another
predawn kayak assualt this morning and found fish
scattered about the flats but no real big concentrations of fish or big fish. The fish were
in shalllow water so it was awesome. Only a few fish on
the surface later into the tide. It was a
great day on the water. |
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September 15,
2012
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A late summer
predawn assault on the flats with kayaks paid off for stripers in shallow water on the fly.
No big fish around but got a couple close to legal fish. There was a bunch of surface action
after sunrise. All kinds of different baits were getting chased by a mix of bass an d
blues. There were larger fish hit shad but hard to get to. |
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September 3,
2012
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Had a great cruise through Yellowstone NP and
saw the usual piles of wild animals and wild tourists. We put in on the Yellowstone just
outside the park and had a great day pounding on all the usual Yellowstone River
species. |
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September 2,
2012
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Another windy day on the Clark's Fork.
Fishing was epic again as well. Same as yesterday except even more wind. After the
float we bailed out of Clark's Canyon
and took off for the Yellowstone. We
camped on an epic moutain pass in the national forest lands just outside of Yellowstone
NP. |
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September 1,
2012
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Right after the canyon trip I jetted
out Billings, MT to fish with my guide buddy Russell Ellwel on the Clark's Fork of the
Yellowstone in Wyoming and the Yellowstone River in
Montana. We battled high winds in the cayon for some epic hopper fishing for rainbows,
browns, brookies and cuthroats. |
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August 30,
2012
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I was a guest angler on an epic offshore canyon
trip today with Capt Eddie Carreiro on the Reel Attitude. It was a
long day, we launched at 0200 and got back to the dock at 2100. But it was way worth
it. We scored loads of longfin tuna averaging 30 to 50 lbs and a pile of mahi
mahi. We got some big hits from bigger game as well. At one point we had 6 out of
8 rods hooked up. We actually had to take out lines out of the water to eat
lunch! |
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August 19,
2012
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Went back to look for those schoolies on the
shallow flats again and only found a few here and there. It was a beautiful
morning. |
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August 18,
2012
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Checked out a different location this morning and
found a pile of cooperative schoolies to beat on. Unfortunately we were chased off the flat
earlier than we wanted by thunderstorms. We checked out the outer beaches but got nothing as
expected with the sun out and all. |
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August 17,
2012
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Back on the water after getting rained out
yesterday. Beautiful conditions. Found fish but
nothing spectacular. Got 2 keeper sized fish and a bunch of schoolies scattered
about. |
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August 15,
2012
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It was a sweet predawn assault on the flats
today. Weather was perfect and we found fish in shallow water in August. Pods
of b ass and
blues were pounding on bait. It was a great day. |
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August 10-12,
2012
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Traveled to upstate NY to the Finger Lakes Region
to fish with my good buddy Christian Elwell for midsummer lake trout. We "pulled coppah" for
fat lakers on the bottom. It was great fun and we ate well. |
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August 6,
2012
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After an early threat of rain the sun came out and
we had a great day wading the flats. We found pockets of schoolies at the depth changes on
the walk out and eventually ran into some nice bonefish like schools of 10-18 inch schoolies.
We saw some more nice schools at the start of the incoming tide too. A great day for the dog
days of summer. |
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August 5,
2012
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Absolutely nothing happening on the outer beaches,
at least where I was, at sunrise. Tough midsummer conditions. Cut the mission
short. Try again on the flats tomorrow. |
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August 4,
2012
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Another great early morning day on the
flats. We found the bluefish out on the edge again and eventually found tailing and schooling
bass in the shallows. The bluefish came in on the flats on the incoming tide with the
bass. It was a good day. |
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August 3,
2012
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It was another mid summer predawn assault on the
flats today. The edge of the flats was where it was at. We got schoolie bass and the
bluefish were out there again. |
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August 2, 2012
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The predawn midsummer action was hot. After
a little poking around we found schools of stripers in the shallows and eventually ending up doing
battle with lots of breaking 2-5lb bluefish. Crushed them with the fly rod and surface
flies. |
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July 29, 2012
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A pile of 2-5lb bluefish lit up a cloudy day on
the outer bars today. Sight fishing was a bust but there was classic water to fish on the
channels that held blues that readily hit anything.
Topwater action was awesome. There was one lone stiper
caught and I saw cruising fish in the rips but with no sun it was hard to target these
fish. |
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July 18, 2012
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Nailed it again, althought they made me work a
little to find them, but when we found them it was epic. Tailing schools of stripers started
to show all over. When the tide turned bluefish joined in the mix. We had action right
til the end. |
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July 17, 2012
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Nailed it this morning. Made a predawn
assault on the flats and found the fish. We hunted around and found tailing and feeding fish
in super shallow water. Even bigger pods of fish came in with the tide. It was a great
trip for mid-July. |
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July 7, 2012
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The fishing turned on for our last day on the
river. We got brook trout, rainbows and grayling. Contact me for information on
planning your Montana Fly Fishing trip. |
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July 6, 2012
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The bite was off today. We had great
conditions with not much action. Managed not to get skunked. Scenery was epic. No such
thing as a bad day of fishing. |
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July 5, 2012
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Fantastic day on the Big Hole. The
overcast, cooler day made for an enjoyable float. Scnerey was epic and there were very
few people on the river. The fish were active. We scored nice rainbows and browns on
dries and nymphs. They were finicky but catchable. |
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July 4, 2012
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Fished a short stretch on the Big Hole
today. The river had been pounded all day and we managed a few fish on dry flies. Epic
scenery. Looking forward to a long day on the river
tomorrow. |
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July 3, 2012
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Had an great day on the Yellowstone today.
The wind was cranking around 25-35 mph but we still pounded on cuththroat, browns and rainbows with
dry flies and micro spinning outfits. Heading to the Big Hole tomorrow. |
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June 29, 2012
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Had better weather today but fishing was
slow. We had some epic moments that made the day however. We did score a fat schoolie
sight fishing on the incoming tide and had a few more shots. |
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June 24, 2012
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Sight fishing the flats was a challenging and as
good as it gets. We had perfect weather and lots of fish around. The fish were super
finicky today but we managed to score a nice 39 inch striper and a nice
bluefish. |
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June 23, 2012
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Tragically had to cancel the morning charter due
to thunderstorms. Rallied later on that day in the freshwater to score a nice smallmouth bass
on a zara spook jr. Epic explosion on it in super shallow water, that fish jumped 6 feet out
of the water! |
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June 19, 2012
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It was a repeat performance on the flats this
morning. More tailing and feeding fish in the super shallows. It was an epic falling
tide. Incoming tide sucked because we had no sun again. We ran into fish but it was
futile because of the lack of vision. |
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June 18, 2012
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Time for the predawn new moon assualt. The payoff was big. We found piles of tailing
fish in super shallow water for as far as the eye could see. We were all alone! We
were able to stay on them until the tide went flat. Sight fishing on the incoming tide was no
good with the clouds. |
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June 17, 2012
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The wind finally calmed down a little and we hit
the flats early. Loads of bait and little sign of fish. It was cloudy and we never got
to see an nice fish. We did hit a pod of schoolies and stayed with them until the tide pushed
us away. |
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June 16, 2012
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Cancelled today. Wind was too much.
Will it ever stop? No way to access the fish for fly anglers. |
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June 15, 2012
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Will the wind ever stop? No flats fishing
today. Opted to fish with the wind at our back on the beaches. The outcome was
terrible, first skunking of the season. |
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June 14, 2012
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Another tragically windy day. We decided to
go to a flats location as the sun was forecast to come out. Well the sun didnt come out and
the wind picked up sooner than forecasted so it basically sucked. We had one good hookup that
went deep into the backing but dropped him. There was only one fish caught. We
attempted to fish a tidal creek on the incoming tide and came up empty there too, save a few
hickory shad. |
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June 13, 2012
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The wind let up a little but it was cloudy and
rainy, so sight fishing was out. We did the first half of the day on the beach and scored a
nice bluefish on light tackle. We switched to the kayak for the second half and lit up the
schoolies big time. They hit sluggos on top. |
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June 12, 2012
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Crappy Northeast wind today so we opted for
fishing the beaches. We had beautiful conditions but not many fish. The highlight of
the day was, unfortunately, me landing a 40 inch fish. I would rather the clients do the
catching! |
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June 11, 2012
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Same story as yesterday. Accessing the fish
was even more difficult with the higher low tide. |
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June 10, 2012
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Found the fish on the flats again, however they
were on the edge and difficult to access. We danced around the outer bars and saw some nice
fish. We only managed to stick a handful. |
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June 9, 2012
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Another great day of challenging sight
fishing. We had lots of shots and hooked and dropped a big fish. Close enought to be
considered an LDR. |
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June 1, 2012
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Redemption! Same anglers as yesterday and
rougher conditions, but everyone hooked up. The conditions were tough with 2 to 4 foot
swells coming across the flat. The fish were there again, big ones. |
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May 31, 2012
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Epic sight fishing conditions and lots of big
finicky fish on the flats frustrated my fly fishing anglers today. Rule number 1, sight
fishing for big stripers in shallow clear water is hard. |
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May 30, 2012
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Sight fishing today was tough. The wind was ok but the sun was not so much. We found plenty of
breaking schoolies to chase however they were small and tough to stay with when there were bigger
fish moving around the flats. We saw lots of nice fish but they were all too close to have a shot.
Did hook up and drop 3 nice fish. |
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May 29, 2012
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Veteran South Florida angler Bill Ackourey had a
great day of sight fishing. We had great conditions and saw lots of fish. We got a
bunch of schoolies and were able to fool a couple of the finicky single big
fish. |
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May 28, 2012
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Poor conditions for sight fishing today put a
damper on out success rate, however, there were a lot of fish that came into this location on the
tide. |
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May 27, 2012
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Another great adventure with Coach Gorski.
We explored a creek system starting at 0100 and found all kinds of cool features to
fish. Riding the tide in we didnt find any fish. However, at dawn we found the fish and
did well on schoolies and scored a nice 38 inch fish on light tackle from
kayaks. |
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May 26, 2012
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Sight fishing on the flats was acceptable
today. We had a 40+ inch fish take a sluggo 15 feet in front of us in clear water. Epic
take but an epic break off as well. Got about a dozen schoolies and had shots at more large
fish but no takes. |
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May 20, 2012
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It was an interesting day with loads of super
finicky stripers making fun of us for most of the day. We got into a bunch of schoolies to
start then headed out onto the shallow flats to do battle with the big boys. We had one big
hookup that was dropped and landed one of the smaller fish. Oh fly fishing...if we only had a
fresh sand eel! |
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May 19, 2012
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Good conditions for the new moon tides continues
and so does the epic fishing. After a little poking around we found the fish. Joe T's
first striper he ever caught was a keeper and we continued pick off fish on the dropping
tide. Then we tossed fresh sand eels at pods of stripers coming in on the incoming
tide. The forecast for tomrrow is good too. |
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May 18, 2012
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Epic from start to finish. Flat calm
conditions made it easy to find the fish in the dark. Fished from the kayak and pulled
in a number of meaty 30-35 inch class stripers before the sun came up. Switched to the
fly rod at twilight and pounded on fish of all sizes. The sun came up and
it was sight fishing mania. The fish were
picky but they were plentiful. Gonna try this again tomorrow. |
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May 17, 2012
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High wind and fog cancelled the night scouting
run. Wind still up during the day, so I checked out a flats area that was out of the
wind and now I know where the fish are not. Saw 4 singles all day. There were a
few pods of small sand eels and saw a podmof herring running
like hell. Forecast for the overnight is good. |
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May 12, 2012
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Went all in at a sight fishing location and the
wind came up and blew us out. No fish today. If we were more aggressive with the kayaks
we could have found fish. It was a tough day to get around in a kayak. Looking forward
to the new moon coming up. |
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May 7, 2012
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Another epic day thanks to young-of-the-year sand
eels, a big tide and lots of big bass. There was a massacre a dawn when this huge biomass of
bass found the sand eels. Some of the fish got so greedy that they got stranded by the low
tide on the flats. It was an amazing sight. About a dozen fish were stuck in about 2
inches of water until the tide came back. About 100 fish in a couple of different pods were
swimming around in a big landlocked tidal pool caused by the big tide. |
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May 6, 2012
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Another great day with Coach Gorski.
Definitely not a repeat of yesterday but Coach landed some nice fish in the mid 30 inch
range. |
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May 5, 2012
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This was the day you dream
about. Epic fishing for the entire trip. The only problem is the guy that was
supposed to fish with me decided to SLEEP IN. So I crushed fished from 0300 to 1100 by
myself. No one is crying for me. I cast flies to tailing fish in the shallows,
massive schools in open water and piles of big fish invading narrow creeks with the incoming
tide. It was beyond epic. I dropped a couple of monsters at the boat. Heading
back to try again tomorrow. Got Coach Gorski with me tomorrow. Can't
wait!
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May 3, 2012
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First bluefish blitz of the season! I was
scouting locations today and noticed some bird activity far out on the horizon. With nothing
going on around me I decided to make a break for it and hope they were still there by the time I
made it out. Fortunately there was a pile of bluefish crushing baitfish when I got
there. Bluefish after bluefish for about 2 hours all in the 5-10lb class. It was
epic. No bass around. Will try another location tomorrow. |
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April 29, 2012
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Game On! Thanks for the tip Tom! On the board! First fish of the season was
around 30 inches. Sweet, right?....and in April no less! I got 3 more fish and saw some
nice schools moving around. No sleep til November! |
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April 28, 2012
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Scouting for the first wave
today, we covered alot of beautiful flats but did not run into any fish at this location.
I did get a call from a fellow fishing warrior, Tom Kulis, letting me that there were keepers at the location he was fishing
at. You know I'm heading there tomorrow. No reason to get skunked when there are
freshwater fish all over the place just waiting to be caught, so we headed to my go to
freshwater pond and pounded on panfish and ended the day with a nice pickerel. It was an
epic battle on micro lite tackle.
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April 21, 2012
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Another epic day of pond fishing in one of my
favorite kettle ponds. We scored largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, sunfish and
golden shiners. Lots of fish today, the pond was alive with hungry fish. There is word
that the stripers are here. Schoolies are being caught in the usual early season
spots. |
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April 16, 2012
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It was perchzilla day today. We hooked a bunch of
nice sized yellow perch. The trout were finicky and did
not take the dries we got them on a couple of days before. |
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April 15, 2012
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Fished a warmwater species pond today and came up
with largemouth bass, pickerel and yellow perch. All fish hit a silver vibrax
spinner. |
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April 14, 2012
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Spring is here. The dry fly fishing has
turned on. Some of the Cape's trout ponds are experiencing cool bug hatches. If you can match it you win. If you don't you can
still catch one here and there. We also got trout on kastmasters. |
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April 8, 2012
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It was a little warmer today with lighter winds
but the fish were not that aggressive today. Yellow perch were everywhere and I noticed some
of the largemouth pairing up near the spawning areas. The next push of warm weather should
kick the freshwater fishing into high gear. There is also word of stripers in the
area. |
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April 7, 2012
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So much for summer coming early. It was cold
and windy out there today but we managed to score some more largemouth bass twitching floating
swimming plugs on the surface and on power worms. There were plenty of yellow perch around as
well. |
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March 25, 2012
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We found largemouth bass, pickerel, yellow perch
and sunfish in this kettle pond. Epic plastic worm fishing for the largemouth. The
pickerel was fat. It is great to see the ponds coming to life. |
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March 24,
2012
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More hot freshwater fishing in the kettle
ponds. We scored brook trout, tiger trout,
smallmouth bass, and yellow perch on micro lite spinning tackle and on the fly. |
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March 17,
2012
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Had an epic day of trout fishing on a
secret Cape Cod pond today. We scored about 20
fish total, all nice brook trout from 10 to 14 inches. They aggressively took kastmasters on
mico spinning gear. It was a great way to start the local trout season. |
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March 2,
2012
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Headed out with Capt Todd Bowen on his rocket ship flats
boat the Lobo for some great Key West flats fishing. We fished for baby tarpon early in
the morning and jumped one and leadered one. The setting was beautiful in the Key West
NWR. The we moved to a small channel out on the flats and pounded on a wide variety of fish
on fly and light spin tackle. We caught a lookdown, pompano, cerro mackerel, various snapper,
piles of ladyfish, piles of jack crevalle and the catch
of the day a 12-14lb cobia. Check out the
cobia video on my YouTube channel. It was a great day with
Capt Todd. |
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March 2,
2012
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Back down at Old Wooden Bridge Fishing Cottages in
Big Pine Key, Florida. Capt Bill Keough strapped our kayaks to his Carolina skiff and he
shuttled us out to the backcountry to do some kayak fishing on the flats. We caught loads of
barracuda opn spinning gear and fly gear. There were many sharks, mostly small bonnetheads,
lemons and black tips. We saw 2 schools of 10-12lb permit and I was able to stalk and get a
good shot at 25lb class fish feeding all alone. The
fly picked up grass on the strip and he hated that. It was a great
day. |
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February 4,
2012
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Headed for the US tropics of the Lower Keys in
Florida for a scouting mission to check some of the warm weather fishing options here in the good
ol US of A. We hooked up with Capt Bill Keough who owns and operates Big Pine Kayak Adventures.
Unfortunately it was too windy to any long distance exploring so we opted to fish the lee side of
No Name Key.Bill loaned us some kayaks and we caught as many mangrove snapper as we wanted.
The water was clear and we saw loads of bait fish, juvenille barracuda and small sharks. It
was good to see it was such a healthy ecosystem. We did well for what we had to work
with. We were supposed to fish tomorrow on the flats but got blown out.
Back down next month to try again. |
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December 29,
2011
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A cloudy windy rainy day kept us close to home
today but Jose found us fish cast at. It was extremely challenging and we did not do well in
the catching department. We still saw fish and had fun. |
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December 28,
2011
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Back to Bonefish U. |
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December 27,
2011
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We chased tapron in the ocean surf in the morning
and then headed for pods of breaking jack crevalle. It was a like a bluefish blitz.
There were also permit, cobia and sharks swimming by. |
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December 26,
2011
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We had a great day chasing all kinds of fish and
ended the day at a location I call Bonefish University. It was a huge super shallow bay
loaded with cruising bonefish. You had to be on you A game here. Loads of shots and
loads of fun. |
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December 24,
2011
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Everybody loves a permit on the fly. We saw
lots of fish today, many different species. |
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December 23,
2011
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Ascension Bay is one of the greatest places to fish on earth as well
as one of the most challengin. Fortunately for me, I get to fish with the best guide on the
Bay, my friend,
Jose Enrique Ucan Briceno. Let me know if
you want to go and I will get you in touch with him. |
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November 23-27,
2011
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Headed down to fish the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas. Didnt have much time
as I would have liked but I did well with time I
had. I spent most of my time at the Mansfield Cut. There was a hug school of finger
mullet wrapped around the jetty and the fish were pounding on them. I hooked a big kingfish
and a big jack crevalle and had a number of breakoffs. This is a fantastic location with a
wide variety of fish. I will be heading back for a longer trip next year. |
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October,
2011
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October fishing was hot and cold. Night
fishing produced the most consistent catches. Flats and kayak fishing were a crapshoot.
Some days the kayak fishing was lights out, jigging for suspended fish. Other days were
barren. Down by the canal fishing was hot through October and into
November. |
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September 27,
2011
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Headed back out to the flats where all the action
was happening and found similar conditions with finicky fish. They did not want the fly but
did want fresh sand eels. |
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September 26,
2011
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Finally got someone to head out at the right time
and we found fish. Unfortunately the fish seemed to have lockjaw and would not take a
fly. It was a case of too much bait and not enough fish. Bait fishing with sand eels
would have been the ticket. |
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September 25,
2011
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So the previous day's angler was booked for today
as well but cancelled. Not cool actually. I went out solo at the proper time and ran
into piles of feeding fish in shallow water. The fish were extremely finicky but they were
there and I hooked up a number of times. Some of the fish were large. |
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September 24,
2011
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Same angler, same story, did not want to fish when
I told him to. We did a great kayak trip and covered alot of ground but only saw about a half
a dozen fish that were running scared. Why dont people listen to me? |
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September 23,
2011
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The angler did not want to fish the recommended
times and paid the price. We should have fished in the dark but we didnt and we bascially did
the grand tour on the outer cape and came up empty aside from a couple of
mackerel. |
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September 17,
2011
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Double shifted today and got blanked on both
charters. That sucks. The fish were everywhere yesterday. |
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September 16,
2011
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Massive blitz on the outer beaches in the big
wind. |
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September 9-12,
2011
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It should have been
lights out on this set of tides but like the stripers have been known to do they changed the rules
of the game. I fished 4 predawn tides and only came up with a few fish each day and not the
epic moon tide action I expected. |
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September 3,
2011
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Had a great trip today with Mike and Luis.
We kayak fished and 8 year old Luis scored himself a couple of nice stripers. Dad got in on
the action as well. |
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August 29,
2011
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Even thought the river came up a little and was a
little muddy we still had a great day of hopper fishing. Anyone interested in a classic
Wyoming or Montana trout fishing adventure should contact my friend Russ Elwell at 406-223-5944 or
email at russellelwell@gmail.com |
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August 28,
2011
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Today we hiked up into Calark's Canyon and scored
trout everywhere we fished. More epic scenery and fishing. Then we jumped back in the
raft and spent the rest of the afternoon pounding on fish all the way back to
camp. |
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August 27,
2011
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Epic hopper fishing
today! The river was packed full of hungry trout
that slammed hoppers all day long. Peter scored a Yellowstone Grand Slam:
rainbow, cutthroat, brown and brook trout. The weather was perfect and the food was
great too! |
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August 26,
2011
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Arrived at base camp today. We set up near
the mouth of Clark's Canyon on the banks of the Clark's Fork of the Yellowsone River. Epic
camp location and views. We will hit it hard tomorrow. |
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August 23,
2011
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This Friday I'll be heading to fish the Clark's Fork of the Yellowstone River with my guiding buddy
Russ Elwell until next Wednesday. Back in action for the beginning of the late summer/fall
season after that. |
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August 21,
2011
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Finally found some fish to play with today. Headed out to an old faithful
kayak fishing spot and the fish were there. Nothing huge but lots of pissed off schoolies
that readily hit sluggos on light spinning gear.
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August 20 ,
2011
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Did a scouting trip to the flats today to see what
was happening and found a number of fish cruising the shallows. We had a few shots and follows but no hookups. |
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August 14,
2011
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No fishing today either. Andrew I are at the
Indy Car Race at NH Motor Speedway. Sweet. |
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August 13 ,
2011
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No fishing today. Andrew and I watching the
Thunderbirds today at Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth, NH. Epic show! |
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August 8,
2011
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Tuna trip was cancelled today due to
weather. |
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August 7,
2011
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Night fishing is the best option right now but
nobody wants to go! Nothing spectacular is happening out there yet but there are fish to
catch. It's all about doing what it takes to catch them. |
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August 6,
2011
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Good conditions but no fish today.
August flats fishing is not the best bet but the guys wanted to go. We catch some small
mackerel and saw loads of bait on the incoming tide but no fish on them. It was a
frustrating day for sure.
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August 5,
2011
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Speaking of anglers that will do what it takes to
catch fish, Coach Gorski and I headed out predawn in kayaks in search of stripers today.
After trying a couple of locations we made the move to the consistent spot of the season and
pounded on stripers up to 35 inches. |
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July 24,
2011
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Cancelled trip today due to wind
conditions. |
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July 23,
2011
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We had every intention of having an epic day of
flats fishing today but mutha nature wasn't having any of that. We paddled out to our
location only to have to run away from thunder and lighting. We did gt one fish on the
retreat paddle. |
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July 22,
2011
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We did our best attempting a flats fishing trip
today but the conditions were a little too advanced for my rookie fly anglers. We did see fish and had shots but no
takers. We worked on casting techniques, general flats fishing theory and told lots of
stories! |
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July 17,
2011
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Had a great day of kayak fishing wit Frederickson
clan. We caught a pile of schoolies up to 27 inches. |
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July 15,16
2011
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Conditions changed for the worse these 2 days and
few fish were caught. |
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July 14,
2011
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A late inning rally saved the day of kayak fishing
with young anglers Stephen and Tyler. Just as we thought we were going to get blanked and
blitz started and everyone caught fish. |
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July 13,
2011
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It was an epic day of flats fishing. We ran
into piles of fish at dawn and stayed on the fish for the entire charter. We sight fished
for stripers up to 40 inches. It was non stop action. We wish everyday was like
this! |
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July 10,
2011
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Kayak fishing was great today. Everyone got
fish and we took one to eat! |
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July 9,
2011
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Attempted a mid day flats fishing trip and didn't
see a thing. It was a beautiful day but the fish were not there. |
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July 4,
2011
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The father son team of Mike and Ross ripped it up
on Freedom Hawk Kayaks today. It was a "numbers" day as
Ross caught over 20 fish and his dad Mike was in double digits with some fly rod fish. The
biggest fish was 29 inches and was eaten. Yum. |
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July 2,
2011
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Finally!!! An epic day on the flats.
Kenny Mendez hit the jackpot today. It was flat calm and we found a pile of tailing stripers
in super shallow water. This was the day every flats angler dreams
of. |
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July 1,
2011
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Things picked up a little today. We had a
brief early morning encounter with a nice pile of fish on a dark flat that yielded a fat 40+inch
striper on light spinning tackle and also got one on the fly. We had many shots. The
end of the trip was slow, we saw sporadic fish on the incoming tide but no hook
ups. |
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June 30,
2011
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Another rough day on the water. We attempted
an afternoon flats fishing trip to a prime location that
wasnt so prime that day. We didnt have the best conditions to work with and we gave
it out best shot but it wasnt to be today. |
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June 29,
2011
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Back on the Cape for a night
surf fishing trip only to get blanked. We fished long and hard to no avail.
They were not there. The report from the other beach locations were slow as
well.
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June 26,
2011
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Another hard day of streamer fishing with only a
few fish. The highlight of the day was a pocket of rising Grayling. Veteran angler
Elwin Schutt landed a couple on a dry fly. |
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June 25,
2011
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We streamer fished down into the deep water and
managed a couple of nice browns and some whitefish. The weather and food was
great! |
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June 24,
2011
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Drifted the Big Hole River in Montana today.
River was high but life was good. We did manage to not get skunked but it was a tough day
fishing. There was still a pile of snow in the mountains and it looks like the water will be
high for a while on some rivers. Get with my guide buddy Russ Elwell for spring creek and
lake fishing options. |
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June 19,
2011
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Had a great Father's Day Charter with Ron and Kai
Sweeten and my son Andrew. We hit a blitz on the edge of
the flats and got a bunch of schoolies on sluggos. Everyone had fun. |
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June 18,
2011
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The fish were on the flats again today but with
the fast moving tide they were difficult to stay on. |
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June 17,
2011
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Finally had a decent day flats fishing. We
got a handful of fish in shallow water on sluggos and flies. |
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June 16,
2011
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Even though the weather was beautiful today, the
fish decided they had lockjaw. We got one strike all day. The entire charter fleet had
a difficult day with the wire line jiggers even coming up empty. They could see piles of fish
on the fishfinder but couldnt get them to eat. |
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June 15,
2011
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Headed out with Cape Cod living legend Dave
Townsend today and finally got a break in the weather. We found a number of nice schools
finning on the surface in the late afternoon. |
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June 14,
2011
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Cancelled the morning trip and reschedule for a
night mission. We had a nice school of fish come by early and we managed a couple of nice
fish from that pod and then nothing. |
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June 13,
2011
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Headed out with the hopes epic early morning tide
action today in the crap weather and got blanked. Ouch. TONS of bait but no fish
anywhere. So much for the 0200 start time. We even hit the outer beaches to try and
find them and still had no luck. I did an afternoon kayak charter and saw a bunch of fish but
again had difficulty because of wind and clouds. |
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June 12,
2011
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More crap
weather. Attempted to fish the
flats in kayaks today and got blown out. We did
see piles of fish but had difficulty staying on them in the kayak. We did manage a
couple of nice fish but is was a grind out there today. |
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June 11,
2011
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Looks like we are in for a long week of crap
weather. Headed out to attempt a day of sight fishin on the flats. It was a long day
with little reward. Everyone got a fish, but BFD, we wanted more. |
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June 5,
2011
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You gotta love it when the fish are where they are
supposed to be. We had a great day catching schoolies on flies and sluggos from the Freedom
Hawk Kayaks. |
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June 4,
2011
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Found the kayak fishing school that we pounded on
all week again. Got fish up to 30 inches. The last one was yummy! |
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June 3,
2011
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So I took a day off to sleep, sue
me! |
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June 2,
2011
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Went to the same location as yesterday only to
find the fish seemed to have moved on. It was a beautiful morning and we did get some fish so
all was not lost. |
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June 1,
2011
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Tailing fish on the flats before dawn was the
scene today. It was a great sight, however the fish were once again finicky although we did
mange to hook up a few times. Sight fishing on the incoming tide was good for sighting but
proved to be a little difficult in the catching department. |
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May 31,
2011
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Another epic morning of kayak fishing with Coach
Gorski. We pounded on fat stripers all morning. Check out Coach's sunrise bass in the
pic. |
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May 30,
2011
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Sight fishing on the flats today was good.
We saw way more fish than we caught but did manage to hook up. Remember that sight fishing
for stripers is for sure the most difficult but most rewarding way to fish for
them. |
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May 29,
2011
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More great kayak fishing. Same spot.
Same action. All good. |
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May 28,
2011
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Kayak fishing was great
today. We stayed on top of a sweet spot loaded with
stripers up to 30 inches today. Surface action with Sluggos was the
ticket. |
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May 27,
2011
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Epic school of fish on the flats this
afternoon. There were a few hundred fish in the school. They were super picky but I got a nice 40 inch and 38 inch fish to take a sand
eel pattern. |
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May 17,
2011
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Naturally, I went back to where the fish
are. My friend Bill Corrigan and I hit the water at 0300 and headed out to drain off
where we found fish tailing and popping everywhere. They were keyed in on baby sand eels and
we did well with typical sand eel patterns. After the tide turned we got some nice fish on
sluggos on the surface. |
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May 16,
2011
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I woke up this morning at 0100 to pouring rain but
I knew today was the day that I would finally satisfy my jones to feel something big pulling on my
line. I met my clients at the launching spot at 0200 and they wimped out because it was
raining! Bad move on their part! I found fish in all the places I expected to and the
average size of the fish was 25 to 35 inches. Sweet, right? I was on the water for 10
hours and caught fish throughout the day. It was epic with the bass exploding on surface
baits. |
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May 14,
2011
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I got word that the canal was hot so I walked the
service road with my son Andrew and got a few strikes on a needle fish but no hookups. We saw
schools of bass moving through but most were out of range. It was great to see life in the
salt water again. |
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May 1,
2011
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With no fish in the salt and a windy day I decided
to hit the fresh water for some largemouth bass action. So I headed back to the pond I
checked out last night in my Freedom Hawk Kayak and did well on powerworms. |
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April 30,
2011
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I got on the Cape late today so I decided to check
out the action in the local ponds in my Freedom Hawk Kayak before it got dark. I found a pile
of warmwater species to have fun with. |
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April 23,
2011
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The season officially opened with a kayak trip
with Coach Gorski. We gave it all we got on a cold windy day but came up empty. It was still great
to be back on the water. |
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December 27,
2010
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Last day on the water in Ascension Bay and it was
epic. We got another permit, about a dozen
snook, barracuda and a bunch of yummy cubera snapper. |
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December 26,
2010
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Another epic day of snook and
bonefish. We even scored a doubel snook from the boat. Life is
good.
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December 25,
2010
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This morning was cloudy and windy so we stayed
close to Punta Allen today and pounded on the local school of lady fish on surface poppers to get
our numbers up. We probably caught 25 a piece. We went out to the reef to see if
anything was lurking around there and ran the shoreline and picked up some bonefish and
snook. |
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December 24,
2010
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Today we chased tarpon in the backcountry.
It was a beautiful day with lots of tarpon seen and only a few caught. They werent feeding
like we had hoped but it was still awesome to see the fish in the shallows. I also scored a
big cuda on the light spinning rod. |
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December 23
2010
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First day on the water saw was great. Both
Peter and I had each landed a permit on the fly before 10 am. Now we can relax and enjoy the
day. The rest of the day we scored lots of snook and bonefish. I scored my biggest
snook yet. |
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December 22,
2010
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Finally made it to Punta Allen. The Punta
Allen road was trashed and in its worst condition that I have witnessed. It appeared the road
grater was working its way slowly south towards Punta Allen but it looked slow
going. |
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December 21,
2010
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We escaped the Boston snowstorm to head down to
our favorite tropical fishing destination in Punta Allen, Mexico. Breezed through the Cancun
airport and headed down to our debriefing location in Tulum to work on a base tan and get on island
time. |
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September 5,
2010
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Today we floated a section to the south of where
we were yesterday. The fishing and scenery was fantastic. |
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September 4,
2010
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We ran one of the most classic scenic river
stretches in the world today. The homerun float on the Snake River in the shadow of the
Tetons in Grans Teton National Park. We caught nice sized cuthroats on big dry flies and
enjoyed fishing from a boat for a change of pace. |
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September 3,
2010
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Today we rode out of the Teton Wilderness to base
out of Jackson Hole for a trip on the Snake River in the morning. |
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September 2,
2010
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The weather cleared and we went back up to the
lake we got the big ones at and had a fantastic day of catching big cuthroat in the sun. I t was
epic. |
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September 1,
2010
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We were hit by snow and rain storm that took all
the fun out fo the fishing for the day however it didnt stop us from taking a ride into the high
country to check out the spectacular surrounding painted by the weather. |
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August 31,
2010
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Today we took the horses up to where the big fish
live and scored some beautiful cuthroat trout on ultralight spinng tackle and flies. The
setting was spectacular. A classic high mountain lake scenario with loads of big
trout. |
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August 30,
2010
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Today we fished the local creek and did well with
the small brook trout. The weather was cold and it went form a sunny day to a
snowstorm. |
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August 29,
2010
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Rode into the Teton Wilderness on horseback to our
base camp. We explored the creek that ran by camp and found plenty of small brook trout that
liked our dry flies. |
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August 28,
2010
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Headed out to Wyoming to take horses into the
Teton Wilderness with Russ Elwell. |
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August 20,21,
2010
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We fished with Captain Ramon on the Close Enough
for a couple of days and had great action for bass and blues. |
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August 12,
2010
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After a slow start in the kayaks we spotted a
cloud of birds on the shoreline and found a massive school of bluefish the had the
blitz bait of the season, baby ocean herring, pinned up
on the sandbars. It was epic popper fishng with fly rods for angry
bluefish. |
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July 23,
2010
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Jose and Lily were up from Punta Allen, Mexico and
we fished the early morning flats with Chris frm Fishng the Cape. We fished a number of
locations and found tailing fish and fish in the shallow channels and had shots at large stripers
on the flats later in the day. |
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July 26,
2010
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Another great day of kayak fishing with Coach
Gorski. The catching wasnt as good as usual. |
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July 23,
2010
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Inshore kayak fishing was good today. |
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July 14,
2010
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More fly fishing on the flats. Not the best
day of the season but we didnt get skunked. |
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July 12,
2010
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After a slow start we got a nice run of fish on
the incoming tide and with the help f the Freedom Hawk Kayaks we were able to stay on the
fish. |
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July 8,
2010
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Had an epic offshore trip in the Freedom Hawk
Kayaks with Scott and Dan. We got a bunch of nice fish on sluggos and
plugs. |
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July 7,
2010
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We had a kayak fishing flotilla out there today
and everyone caught fish with the little man getting the big fish. |
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July 5,
2010
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Let the night time beach fishing begin. We
had a great night fly fishing on the beach. |
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July 4,
2010
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Another good day on the Freedom Hawks, spin and
fly fishing. |
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July 3,
2010
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Had a great day of inshore and flats fishing in
the Freedom Hawk Kayaks. |
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June 26,
2010
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More inshore action with the Freedom Hawk
Kayaks. |
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June 25,
2010
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It was a great offshore trip in the Freedom Hawk
Kayak on a calm day. We scored lots of nice bass on sluggos on the
surface. |
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June 23,
2010
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Fishing from the Freedom Hawks was good
today. |
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June 19,
2010
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Daniel Zatta was the man today catchnig stripers
from a kayak for the first time. |
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June 13,
2010
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He shoots, he scores! Another ocean herring
and striper blitz hit the beach again this moring and we were there. |
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June 12,
2010
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JB had a great moring on a Freedom Hawk Kayak fly
fishng for stripers. |
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June 11,
2010
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Another day with Dave and more fish for
everyone. |
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June 10,
2010
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Fished with local legend Dave Townsend and pounded
on scattered schools of schoolie bass. |
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June 9,
2010
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Always a great day on the water with Coach Gorski
whether we catchem or not. Today we were catching them. |
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June 8,
2010
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Had a great night on the flats in my Freedom Hawk
Kayak. |
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June 5,
2010
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Boo Ya! After a failed attemp to fish a
flats location due to thunderstorms we regrouped and hit
the outer beaches and hit the jackpot. We got to the beach and within a few minutes we
watched a massive school of huge
bass pin a massive school of baby ocean
herring on the shoreline that exploded into a once in lifetime beach blitz. The blitz lasted
all day and there was fun had by all. |
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June 4,
2010
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Another beautiful weather and conditions day with
slow catching. We saw loads of bait moving across the flats and were able to catch some fish,
bass and blues, on the channel edges but on the whole it
was a slow day. |
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May 30,
2010
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Thanks to a late inning rally we had a great end
to failry slow day of sightfishing on the flats. In the last hour we encoutered some nice pods of fish in shallow water.
They were spooky but catchable if you're good. |
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May 29,
2010
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It was another hard day on the water where we had
fantastic conditions but not alot of fish. Again, we still caught fish but nothing
notable. |
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May 28,
2010
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Made a predawn assault on a classic flats location
and had some great action at the bottom of the tide then things slowed down and we were able to
find fish but nothing spectacular. The weather and conditions were perfect but the biomass
was elsewhere. |
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May 27,
2010
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Great early season fly fishing action from the
Freedom Hawk Kayaks. |
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May 23,
2010
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Ocean fishing was in order today as the word was
that there were fish surrounding the outer cape. As soon as we got on the water we saw
working birds off in the distance and within 20 minutes were into fish. The fish were keyed
in on small baitfish and didnt crush the sluggos as expected so I broke out the fly rod on my
Freedom Hawk Kayak and scored a pile of fish up to 36 inches. There were acres of bass
slurping these little baitfish all over. I also score my first bluefish of the season and it
was an angry 10 plus punder. |
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May 22,
2010
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Peter and I kayak fished today at the edge of some
flats and secret local spot accessible only by kayak and
scored a pile of fish on, what else, the good ol sluggo. We were treated to violent acrobatic
surface strikes. These fresh fish were pissed! |
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May 16,
2010
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Met Jason and 3 friends Jason, Bob and Matt at Ocean Edge and drove to the
flats. Hiked
out to the edge and scored quickly with a number of fish from 12 to 36 inches
landed among the 4 anglers. Jason scored a nice 35-40 inch class fish on a Bob Mahoney epoxy sand eel
special. Action died just at lo tide as expected
and we worked our way to look for possible pods on
the beach.
Boat passing by alerted us to fish down the
beach so we relocated and scored scoolies up to 25 inches. Epic moments throughout
the day.
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May 15,
2010
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My first epic moments of the season. Paddled
to a favorite location and found classic birds over bass. I caught many fish in the 28
to 34 inch class on sluggos. The fish were aggressively hitting on the surface with
some fish somersaulting through the air. It was hard work out there as each fish would
take about 5 to 10 minutes to release and that meant I was pushed away from the school by the
wind so I would have to paddle back into the fish hookup, go for a ride and do it all
over again. Bliss. |
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May 14,
2010
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Today was windy but I wasnt gonna sit on my
ass! I lauched from the beach in my kayak and battled wind and wave to score a fat
keeper on a sluggo. I chased birds but could never get to them in time with the
conditions. At least I didn't get skunked again! |
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May 13,
2010
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Well it goes to show you every tide is
different. I headed out a 0300 with Chad in kayaks on a cold morning. The tide
was right but the fish decided to do something diffrerent today and we got skunked.
Horrifying. |
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May 12,
2010
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Headed out to do some scouting for tomorrow's
charter on the evening tide and managed to find a handful of schoolies on the fly. I
even saw a small pod tailing. Feeling good about tomorrow. |
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May 1-2,
2010
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Peter and I fished
hard over the weekend and managed to find some fish but the weather was not very
cooperative. Peter missed a nice fish on the fly and some
keeper bass were taken next to us on topwater
plugs. We fished in 30 mph winds on the flats and managed to score a bunch of nice
fish in the narrow window we had access to the fish. It was epic for about an
hour. There were lots of birds over stripers chasing sandeels. I also got reports that there
are fish everywhere on the Cape now. This upcoming new moon should be
epic.
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April 26,
2010
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On the hunt for striper number
500 with Coach Gorski. We fished the sunrise at one location and came up empty. We
decided to change things up and head into a salt pond to see if anything is kicking
around. Headed to a pond the Coach scouted the day before and got a bunch of
schoolies. It wasnt long after we got there that we hooked up. Coach got is number
500! Congrats Coach! The irony of the situation was that 500 was probably the
smallest fish that I have seen Coach catch! Anyway we got a couple of more fish, all were
holdover schoolies averaging 12 to 16 inches.
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April 24,
2010
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Had a wading charter with Matt from Boston
today. Tragically the fish werent here yet. We fished all the usual first arrival spots
and came up empty. We did see the herring running but no bass yet. |
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March 20,
2010
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Fished the freshwater with Coach Gorski for the
first trip of 2010. It was a beautiful day and we fished two different bodies of water, but
the fish had lockjaw and we only got a couple of small largemouth bass. The water needs to
warm up just a little more. |
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December 26-31,
2009
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Headed down to Ascension Bay in Mexico for a week
of fishing with our buddy Jose out of Punta Allen. We fished 5 days straight and had many
epic moments. I got a super slam
(bonefish,permit,tarpon and a snook) on the fly in 3 hours one day. We were surrounded by
schools of all the super slam species all day. It was surreal. Another highlight of the trip was Peter Courossi scoring his first Permit on the fly. It was an epic stalk from the
shore. What a way to end the trip! |
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Late Septmember,
October, November Report
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Truth be told, late season 2009 wasnt all it
should have been. The weather patterns for the fall season were terrible. I cancelled a number of
charters due to weather and all the offshore charters were cancelled. In addition to the bad
weather it was hard to find the fish on the good days. Hopefully we get better weather patterns in 2010. On a
positive note, the freshwater fishing was great this fall. |
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September
14-20,2009
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The 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 2. |
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