Author: captpeter9

Fished a really early (5AM) half day with Todd from CT.   Todd is a very accomplished fly rod caster. We ran all over and could only scare up a few small Bluefish. Had stripers the trip before but this trip just didn’t gel.  We hit the Thames River, CT River, Millstone, Plum Island and… Continue reading Really Good Fly Fisherman

Fished with Mark and his son Noah today. They were in town looking at colleges for Noah and took the afternoon off to do some fishing.  Noah was a very accomplished fisherman and he needed to be today. We ran 60 miles and got a couple Bluefish and schoolie Stripers before finally landing a decent… Continue reading Nice Day and a Few Fish

Fished a really good fly rod-er today..... JD from upstate New York.  He had an early morning commitment so we could only fish from 5-9am.    As we were making ready to leave the dock the fog really rolled in and killed our plans for heading to Watch Hill.  All we could do was put-put… Continue reading Fish on Every Rock.

Been fishing regularly all last week.  In all cases had really good fishermen (and women) on board. Fished both fly rod and light tackle. Have had to run Long Island Sound from New London a few miles in opposite directions to find fish but luckliky have been able to scare up Stripers on all trips.… Continue reading Striper Showing Watch Hill and CT River

Fished with Tom and his son, Joey, from New Jersey today. Both have fished with me before but had never caught a False  Albacore. Today started early, before 7, in pea soup fog. Had to use the radar to get anywhere for the first hour and a half. No sooner did the fog lift and… Continue reading Fog and Few Fish!!!

Today started slow. Looked for fish for a couple hours and couldnt find anything. I was sure there were fish just not sure where. I looked at the right tide in the morning at Beaufort inlet and nothing. Ran to the Hook still nothing. What the heck?  So I decided to head west which I… Continue reading More big False Albacore!

Weather today started our clear, cold and windy. Ended up clear, light wind and 60 degrees.....a beautiful day for fishing. Found birds on bait balls right away and it didn’t take long to get in to fish. The fish today stayed under their baitball/s all day and would occasionally work over the bait ball; tearing… Continue reading False Albacore Blasting Bait Balls & Lots of Big Fish!!!

Fished a day and a half with Don from Wilmington NC. Fishing was OK / not great. The Albies are really big the last couple of days though.  Seems like a new batch of fish have shown up.  These fish aren’t following the shrimp boats but are chasing bait in deeper water than the fish… Continue reading Where Did the Shrimp Boat Fish Go?

Fished 3/4 day with a local from Atlantic Beach yesterday.  Found albies right outside the harbor channel and pretty quickly were hooked up. Those first two fish were really big fish.  From there we headed west and found a shrimp boat with another big fish. That all happened between leaving the dock at 11 and… Continue reading False Albacore Quality not Quantity

So yesterday was Day 3 of trying to set the 4 lb women’s fly rod record for False Albacore. Unfortunately we didn’t catch our fish. Sure wasn’t for lack of trying or the number of fish though. Over the 3 days that Darlene and Charlie from Massachusetts fished they hooked a couple hundred, caught over… Continue reading Albie Fever Day 3