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The Hogy Epoxy Jig has been a hot lure for me in the last week. I like this gold/olive color. I've written over and over again how effective the float and fly is for albies. In my opinion this is your best bet most of the time.  However lik

It was a blitz to remember today as albies and stripers hit the shore in force in a spot I was fishing.  It was all set in motion by some rough water and big schools of peanut bunker. The albies were blitzing out a ways from shore smashing thro

was most excellent yesterday.   Casting at breaking fish and muscling and hosring them to the boat before the sharks made lunch of them behind the shrimp trawlers.   Really great fishing.

Fun afternoon for the nice people. Great bottom fishing on scup and seabass. Fluking was off a bit due to the storm but we showed them what Montauk fishing is about. They trolled up a few nice bass dime and gorilla blues. Then we chased albies with l

Fished a second day with Paul Dave Bob and Marsh in Montauk. We had another epic day releasing over 30 albies plus a few blues. The action Montauk has been red hot. Lots of doubles and triple headers. Pro Tip: Usually a fast retrieve is standard iss

 

Fished again with Mike at Montauk on Sunday. Our struggles continued as the fish were not being cooperative. We ended up with blues albies and some stripers but the fishing was off by Montauk standards. All the fish were on the fly.

Fished with Peter Anthony and Patty on Sunday in Montauk. We decided to fish a different area for a change of pace. We found the albies but they were choosing to be difficult. Albies are like that. We hooked three and pulled the hook on all of them.

Here's a typical big RI keeper. Most of the keepers from shore were 28 to 32 inches It was just loaded with schoolies in the 16 to 24 inch range this year. They seemed to be everywhere. It was the year of the schoolie. From start to finish

Fished with Darryl and Dave in Montauk. It was great. We averaged over forty albies per day with some bass blues and sea bass mixed in. Fishing has been very very good. Pro Tip: Watch your plotter. Many times your drift is powered more by the curren

The egg float with a deceiver fly was the only thing that would catch the fussy schoolies in the last two days. I've found lots of stripers in the last two days. Problem is that I caught very few. The fish I found were all good size schooli

Here's the fishing report for the week in a nutshell: Loads of schoolies very few keepers even fewer blues no albies. This is one of many many schoolies landed yesterday. There are loads of them around. I fished in the nasty weather yesterday and

My next stop on the winter seminar circuit is the Springfield Sportsmen's Show at the Big E in Springfield MA. The show will be running Feb. 21 22 and 23.  Check out the website here  for more information.This is a massive show in a hug

Fished with Peter and Anthony again on Sunday. We crushed em. Peter again worked the Flyrod and Anthony continued with the spinning rod. We released over thirty albies about ten stripers to 19 pounds and several blues. We had sporadic blitzing strip

Fished with Brian and friends yesterday in Sea Isle. Sea bass was our primary objective but I had other ideas as well. This time of year can bring albies and lots of them. On our way to the sea bass grounds we "stumbled upon" blitzing Albies

My latest saltwater seminar that I'll be running this winter at many of the big outdoor shows is called Stripers Blues and Albies A Multi-Species Approach. I wanted to do a show this year that dealt with more than just stripers since many of toda

We had some good trips last week on the Pamlico.  The striper bite continues to be excellent.  We are consistently catching 50-100 fish/trip many of which are on topwater lures.  On one trip last week we had a nice surprise … Co

Light Tackle Jigging For Tautog The number of different tautog jigs available to anglers these days is exploding and there are multiple reasons for this. While there are anglers who “wait all year for tautog fishing” interest among

Fished with Mike in Montauk. The Albie bite was tough but we still caught a bunch on the fly. We had blitzing bass that bordered on epic for a few hours as well.