Boy what a blow we had yesterday with steady winds up in the 20's and gusts even higher -glad I wasn't fishing! But sure enough the wind died thru out the night and we had a glorious morning greet us when I met Mark and Jen Woodard and their daughter Lilli down at the Sawpit Creek Boat ramp. We made a long run up the intercoastal and dipped in to...

Looking at the weather forecast last night I thought for sure we'd be getting wet today. But when I got up this morning it had improved which was great because we were going anyway!  I met Henry Ross and his crew - David Gray and Dick and Ethan Conley - up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park boat ramp early and we headed over to Eagans Creek with plans t...

We had a beautiful morning forecasted when I picked up Mark DePrimo at the Residence Inn this morning. We made our way down to Sawpit Creek launched and made the run up the intercoastal to dip into a side creek up near Horsehead. Mark had wanted to get h is Fly Fix in so I had two fly outfits ready a 7w and a 8w. Mark began tossing the lighter 7w...

I was back at it this morning fishing with the Wolfe's - Tim and Laura - and meeting them down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. While we were in the area and with the tide still going out we bumped around to the old Sawpit bridge and set up current to drift slip floats back to the bridge with live shrimp as bait. It only took a few drifts bef...

If you could have asked for the most perfect day to be fishing today would have been it! Clear skies sunshine just a bit cool and only a slight breeze - it was a Chamber of Commerce type morning when I met Bob Kossman and John Raker on a share trip kind of day down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. We made a long run up the intercoastal into Back R...

FINALLY!  The weather let up and we were able to get out and fish! Monday: Cancelled Tuesday: Cancelled Wednesday: Cancelled Thursday: moved to Friday afternoon. And so we fished this morning when I met Jeff and Jinny Key up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp and with a live well full of live shrimp we made our way up the creek to fish som...

I wrapped up my week fishing with part of the Ryan family today Kerri and Mike and their young son Sean meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early. We made a quick run up to the Jolley River to fish a tide that had been coming in for a few hours and set up into the current to toss float rigs and live shrimp. Our first cast p...

I fished today with Mark Richardson his son Braden and his friends Chris and Landon meeting them up at the Old Town Bait and  Tackle ramp early. We made a run over to Lanceford Creek and fished some flooding oyster beds on a high and incoming tide with float rigs and live shrimp. Chris fairly quickly put a hungry Seatrout in the boat and shortly...

Fishing with the Poon Fishing Team today - I met Derek and his sons Zach and Tyler up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp - and we headed over to Lanceford Creek to set up fishing over some flooded oyster beds on a high and incoming tide. The trio of anglers were tossing float rigs and live shrimp and even though the first spot didn't produ...

I fished a double today both out of Old Town Bait and Tackle. The morning trip was with the Wolke crew -Jos and his brother-in-law Renzi and his son-in-law Rob and friend Nick. We had a high and incoming tide so we fished float rigs most of the morning with live shrimp. All four anglers boated fish -Seatrout and Bluefish and the highlight was  a...

I was finally back out at Goffinsville this morning meeting High School classmate Daniel Rhodes and his Brother-in-Law Jeff as the sun came up. We made a quick trip down the Nassau River and set up alongside a flooded shell bank on the last of an incoming tide and began to toss float rigs and live shrimp. I think it was Jeff's first drift and BAM...

I wrapped my week up today fishing north again with Craig and Christina Jones. We had met up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp and made our way out of Eagans Creek to make our first run over to the outside of Tyger Island where we set up fishing float rigs on a tide that had been going out for a couple of hours. I don't think we got a nib...

What a beautiful morning we had today when met Rob and Pam Russell up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle ramp! The sun was just coming up and we had clear skies and  just a slight bit of breeze as we headed down Eagans Creek to towards the intercoastal. The tide had been going out for just a couple of hours so we made our way over to a large draina...

On Tuesday March 28th we threaded the only offshore weather window for the rest of the week; if the current forecast holds. Over the next 5 days we have high winds coming from every different direction blowing 15kts. I should have known the day was gonna be epic because my phone didn’t charge the night […] The post Blackfin Tuna Surprise on a 6hr...

We were able to squeeze in a fishing trip this morning before the heavy rains rolled in after noon. I had met Cameron Beadle who had his son Roman and father-in-law Jason along as his fishing team!  We made a short run from Dee Dee Bartels and set up fishing some dock pilings on the last hour and half of the outgoing tide. We started slowed but b...

I had to remind myself to look on the bright side this morning knowing that there was no live shrimp to be had on or near the island. But I had my trolling motor back from the shop I had some left over mud minnows   I'd frozen some left over fresh shrimp from Friday and I had a purchased pint of fiddler crabs...and the skies were clear a beautifu...

I did a share-a-trip today pairing Bob Kossman and Dale Bullard as the anglers. We met up at Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early and made a run up Lanceford only to see that our spot was taken so we turned back and fished the back side of Tyger with jigs and live shrimp. We worked the bank thoroughly and Dale did pick up a almost legal Flound...

It's amazing how different the fishing can be depending on the tides. This morning I met Warren Hearn and his brother-in-law Dave up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp. We had a tide that was already high and still coming in so we went with float rigs and live shrimp as the tactic. Our first stop was over on the outside of Tyger and almost...

Winds were forecasted to get up to 17mph by the end of todays trip and I believe they did! I had met Alex Bournias and his friends Pam and Tony up at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp early and with a already high and still incoming tide we made our way out of the creek into a blow! Our first stop was up Bell River fishing a flooding point b...

After getting the boat ready this  morning I came back inside and put on a pair of long underwear! The temps were in the low 40's and I just didn't want to be cold today so I bundled up and met Bob and Jana Grimm out at the Old Town Bait and Tackle boat ramp. We had a nice clear sunny day cool and a bit windy as we headed north and west to set up...

I wrapped my week up yesterday fishing with Glenn and Patti Langford. We met up at Old Town Bait and made our way over to the outside of Tyger to fish floats and live shrimp on a tide that had been going out for about an hour. As it's been all week it was a beautiful day and as we eased up to some flooded grass we could see all kinds of bait acti...

All week long we've had beautiful days today included but for the most part we had to really work to get some fish in the boat. But today we had the beauty and we caught more fish!  I had met Robert Stettner and David Vice out at Goffinsville Park early and with a tide that had been coming in for about an hour we made a quick run down to Broward...

It seemed like we were in line to get one fish per spot that we hit today. I had met Phil Bailey up at Old Town Bait and Tackle on another beautiful day and with a tide that had been coming in for about 4 hours we ran over and up the Bell River to set up on a point with plans to toss float rigs to the grass. If it wasn't Phil's first cast it was...

What a super beautiful day we had today!  I met Dennis Brizzi and his fishing crew Bob and Jeremy out at Goffinsville Park mid morning with plans to fish the first of an outgoing tide. It was still coming in at Goffinsville so we ran over to Pumpkin Hill and drifted float rigs and live shrimp along the flooding marsh line.  As it turned out we did...

We had a pretty good thunderstorm come thru last evening enough so that our dog Jasper was hunting security. It was still raining when I went to bed but when I got up this morning it had quit and we had just a breeze as I made my way to the bait shop. Afterwards I met Frank and Joanne Wytiaz down at Sawpit Creek and we made our way up the Back Ri...