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Had Big Russ out with the boys. Started out on the tuna grounds with Mat and Stan popping their tuna cherries. Was a slow pick so decided to spice up the catch with mahis which was a good call ended up with over 30 up to 15lbs. Went back to the tuna

Been a long non fish catching winter and I hope it's almost over. No bluefin tunas and we all know the Va Beach striper were not too good at being in the right place. So let's hope spring will bring lots of fish and maybe some good weather. W

Sea run brown trout on the fly rod!  It is with sadness that I report the passing of my father Ralph Pickering at the age of 93.  I know many of my readers knew him as we fished together for decades.  In fact everything I know about f

Had Don Beshada out with the boys today Tony Frankie and Jesse. Frankie got us going early with a nice bluefin then we jigged over 50 albies and bonito time to move made a long run to find the right water which we did which was lifeless changed gears

Wow.  Took a quick trip looking for a snappa and couldn't stay away from the groupers.   Good problem to have.   Put out one line out with a live bait and immediately got bit......repeatedly.  Limit of gags and limit

After disappearing for nearly a week the albies are back in big numbers.  This huge one was the biggest of many that I have landed in the last two days. The float and fly is the ticket to catching.

Reports from Port Fairy Portland and Port Mac have still been trickling through during the week and with some decent weather forecast over this coming weekend there should be plenty more to come. Both albacore and tuna are still being caught with pl

Here's a long skinny keeper that I landed today. Striper fishing has been good in the rough water this week.  It's been another week of very rough conditions along the oceanfront.  And it's been another week of good striper fis

I think I picked a pretty decent time to write a "season in review" article for us at Reel Class the day following the blizzard of 2013 which dumped about 15" of snow up here in Bergen County and as much as 3'+ to our north and east.

Fished today with Darryl and Matt in Montauk. We were spin fishing and headed to the point first thing. We started off with an albie right off the bat. The rest of the day we had a few more albies broke a few off and had a bunch of mid sized blues.

October Albies Can Be Fussy It is written all over their long faces. “What do I have to do to catch one of these damn albies?” It seems this October stretch has been particularly harsh. Especially in contrast to the fall of 2017 which wa

Fished with Darryl Matt Bill and Dave this weekend in Montauk. We were spin fishing. The albie bite was very good approaching epic at times. We had several triple header albie hookups. If I gave you a number of total releases you would probably not

Had Henry Mossi and the boys out today. Plan was to fish midshore for bluefin then shark. Had a late start out of the gate when we got to the grounds the  Early birds definitely got the worm. Tried my best to find them only albies. Hit the loca

It's not looking good for those expecting big numbers of albies to hit the shore. They usually arrive along the RI shoreline in big numbers from Sept. 10 to Sept. 15. That did not happen.  Some speculate it was because of the hurricane waves

I landed this slot fish yesterday on  a float and fly.  This has been a banner August of striper fishing here in RI.  From the beginning of the month to the end I have been into blitzes of fish just about every day.  The fish ran

Fished with Tim and Zeph at the point today. We fly fished and had seven albies and most were on the fly. It was blowing again but doesn't it always? The fish chewed well early.

I was fishing for stripers today and guess what popped up in front of me?  Here is a photo of my first albie of the year taken on the float and blue tailed Deceiver fly.

Scattered ablies on bait up and down the beach with more out on the draggers sight casting drum in the suds and the king mackeral just off the beach is off the hook........after this nor'easter things should really fire off.

John Dusty and I fished Montauk this weekend. Saturday was great. We released a dozen stripers to 27 inches about a dozen albies around twenty blues to over ten pounds a few monster sea bass some huge porgies and a fluke. Conditions ranged and chang

Another frost this morning and now overcast so no sun to warm things up.The Tongariro may have been quiet over the last day or so but the Delta has been on fire with Alex and Albie having a high old … Continue reading →