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Today was the kind of day only a Striped Bass, or avid Striped Bass fisherman, could love. Plenty of east wind, hard running tide, and overcast downright chilly weather conditions. So, I decided to tough it out and take the rather choppy ride out to the Gut for this morning’s flood tide. As...

Persistence and confidence in one's ability are often rewarded. You have both of those attributes, Roccus, in spades!!

I don't advocate pushing one's luck and I too try to avoid the "common superstitions" about fishing/boating. However, on my charter from last Friday with the kids aboard, we did blow away most of them. Pretty solid catch on Friday the 13th and while we had a good Weakfish bite going, I noticed...

I sure hope so! I still remember the details of many of the very early fishing trips made with my Dad. Fishing is just one of those special activities that creates extremely strong bonds.

Today's update, third spot has been filled for this trip. So still room for one more intrepid angler!!

Today’s half day charter included long term customers John and Ricky along with John’s 2 Grandsons Connor and Troy for their second annual Peconic Bay trip. One year older and more experienced, the boys took up right where they left off last year putting the hurt on the local Porgy population...

Mixed Bag is always nice!

Despite the rather soggy and breezy weather yesterday the Elias party of 4 still hung in there to make a decent catch of Scup and Weakfish on the morning charter in Peconic Bay. Half of the crew had never fished before and missed a lot of the rather rapid Porgy bites so the guys did fall short...

I'm pretty sure that is where the aforementioned story took place!

Two of my long-term regulars have Saturday 6/21/25 booked for a Striped Bass/Mixed Bag 6-hour trip. Following the Bass fishing we will head back west to work on hitting our Weakfish limit, as the action for this species has recently heated up as well. So that leaves room for 2 more anglers...

Thanks for the confirmation, John. I just wanted to be sure I was not missing something. Under similar, low traffic situations I sometimes will give myself a bit of a "running start" but that only works if the wind vs. tide situation is not too severe. As usual you take the safe approach to...

John, I meant to ask you this question the other day. I know you own a very nice Steiger Pilot house, and I believe you fish solo most of the time. Do you have a second set of controls in the cockpit? If not, I am curious to learn how you can power drift single handed. I sure can't do it with...

Great outing, although a little hairy with the bad weather coming in. The Bass always seem to like biting better the worse the weather gets. I would say score this one as a big WIN-WIN for both angler and fish alike!!

No one out does your own efforts with the rod and reel, Kevin!:D I remember reading an article many years ago about one of the editors of a well-known local fishing magazine that actually took some "time off" to throw a few lures in the surf at a blitz occurring during a friend's wedding. They...

That's why it is called "fishing and not catching"! ;) We did get a few today but no doubt the bite was off. See my report for the possible culprit!!

Had the Chris party of join me today for a spring mixed bag trip under some beautiful weather conditions. Started the morning on the ebb tide for Bass in the Gut and while the fish were there, the bite today was a bit slower than my last few outings. Still, the guys worked hard and after just a...

Looks beautiful, Vinny. I hope Dawn likes to fish!! However, something tells me she would love to be with her grandfather almost anywhere.

Watch out, Fluke, your nemesis is in the batter's box!! Looks great Pete; have a terrific and safe season.

You look fairly unimpressed, John. I guess you caught bigger ones on other trips!!!:ROFLMAO:

I'm glad you had a decent day Matt, but your post kind of makes my point. It took a 3-day trip nearly eight years ago to come up with a decent catch. Very painful.