They should be here within a couple of weeks!  A new season is almost here.  Within a couple of weeks migrating stripers will hit the oceanfront and that will commence the spring runs. Here is a timetable of what I think will happen based over 50 years of keeping fishing logs. Middle of April - First stripers of the season these fish that will hav...

Here's a big pickerel I jigged up through the ice a few weeks ago. It's been the best ice fishing year in over a decade! I'm sure many of you are sick of winter at this point and looking forward to spring.  But I just love winter and the snowier and colder the better.  I have really enjoyed this winter.  I did a lot of skiing.  It's not over yet...

The next big show where I will be doing carp and striper fishing seminars is the Springfield Sportsmen's Show. This big outdoor show will be held at the Big E in Springfield from Friday Feb. 21 to Sunday Feb. 23. This show has everything for the outdoor enthusiast.  It has freshwater fishing saltwater fishing hunting outfitters tackle shops. boa...

Ben Pickering holds a good size  largemouth that was landed on a small Kastmaster with an artificial maggot attached. We are on a roll with the ice fishing as my sons and I have been jigging multiple ponds in both MA and RI and catching. And the results have been the same with big numbers of crappie yellow perch bass and pickerel. We've also had s...

Here's a real prize that Jon jigged up.  I fished this weekend with my two youngest sons Ben and Jon. We went jigging through the ice something we used to do a lot when they were young. Back then we would hit the local ponds after school before supper.  They loved doing it then and still like to do it. As you know we have had very little ice the l...

I will be at the New England Fishing Expo this weekend (Feb. 1 and Feb. 2) doing a striper fishing seminar and a carp fishing seminar.  This big outdoor fishing show will take place at the Best Western Royal Plaza Trade Center which is right off Rt. 495 in Marlborough MA. It is one of the largest fishing shows in New England and features a lot o...

My winter seminar adventures start at the New England Fishing Expo on the weekend of Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.  This big show will be held at the Best Western Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough MA which is right off Rt. 495. I've been doing this popular winter show for many years now.  It is one of the best pure fishing shows around. It's a mix of...

For years I had used a St. Croix Mojo Surf rod and I have a number of different models.  The Mojo rod was always rated a good buy for the money and a real solid rod.  My 10 1/2 footer was getting old and the reel seat was moving so I decided to change rods and purchase a replacement. With the Mojo out of production I decided to try a St. Croix Av...

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Captain JR reports a bit of a tough day for the Coxes trip onboard the Viking Star. We pushed pretty far offshore to try and find a quality late season bite. A few spots had some pretty good action with big sea bass cod and ling. However it definitely wasn’t the lock and load fishing […]

Captain JR reports a pretty good trip out to the wrecks onboard the Viking Starship. We had no problem hitting a few spots that had lots of big knot head sea bass but the cod bite was a little off from what we usually see on these trips. However we picked away all day and […]

Capt Dave reports a slower day on the Viking Star. We fished a wreck first thing and had nice keeper Sea Bass. Then we headed off to the east and had good action on the hard bottom but there were mostly small Sea Bass. There were plenty of Bergalls 1 Cod and a few Porgies […]

Capt JR reports a very productive day onboard the Viking Star. We had no problem finding the jumbo Knothead Sea Bass with everyone easily getting a limit. We also found some nicer Cod everywhere we went with Ling giant Scup and a few Pollock topping off the catch. Solid day all around. The Cod pool […]

Capt Dave reports a slow day on the Viking Starship. We looked around at a lot of spots but unfortunately they really weren’t chewing today. There were a handful of Porgies a handful of good Sea Bass with a bunch of small mixed in a few Cod and a lot of Bergalls. The pool winner […]

It was a very good year for Slot Stripers. These were our bright spot.  It's that time of year.  The season has ended and the teacher in me is about to grade the season. The catch word for the entire season has been inconsistent. I can't remember a season that has had so many ups and downs. The bait situation was also inconsistent with less peanut...

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Today’s action seemed to favor more towards the SeaBass with most anglers having their limit of some nice keeper sized fish. The Porgy bite was ok they were around just not really chewing but we manged some decent Scup on the boat. […]

Capt Dave reports a decent day of fishing on the Viking Starship. Sea Bass fishing was excellent. There were plenty and they were nice size. The Porgy fishing was tough. Everyone only managed a handful. Maybe when it calms down they will chew better. We also had a dozen Cod for the light crowd we […]

Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Starship. We started off inside of the island. It was straight Sea Bass of mixed size everything from small to large. We made a move and found more Sea Bass. Then we moved a bit more to the east and found the Porgies there. There were […]

Captain JR reports a fair day of fishing onboard the Viking Star. We had to do a little looking around as we haven’t been out to the ledge in about a week but it wasn’t half bad. We easily got a very nice limit of nice knot head sea bass and also a good showing […]

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Today was an all around mixed pick at just about every drop we saw equal amounts of both Porgies and SeaBass both on the larger side. We also had Blue fish Mackerell and Green Bonita on the boat as well today. […]