Releasing Giant Bluefin Boatside

The Colors of Summertime

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1972 Aquasport 22'2" in action

Bluefin Tuna "Catch & Release"

Stripers and Bluefin Tuna in Junah'

Warm, Long days...

Mooooo Bass-a-low

Home again, home again, jigidy, jig

Happy to be home and fishing in buzzards bay and vineyard sound again. The bass fishing has been off the hook and we have also been catching tuna 130 - 250 lbs.

September 2k9 Slob Stripers (on the buggy whip)

When the water starts to cool around Buzzards Bay and the Islands it usually means that the bass are coming back in, and coming in good numbers. For around 6 weeks this fall they have taken up shop in a few places along the South Coast shoreline. It has been fun trying to get the really big ones on the surface with the fly rod, but this is not easy (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME) and just about everything that can go wrong does go wrong. In the rare event that nothing goes wrong and the fishing gods shine on us we have landed some amazing and beautiful Striped Bass (toads) with the buggy whipp...

September 2k9 half beak feeds

September means cool mornings and for me the beautiful drive through Rochester and Carver across old country cranberry bogs full of water and floating red berries. It also means it is time for the Tuna to turn it on. This year we started to see the schools of Blue fin Tuna feeding on the surface on half beaks early in September. What a sight, and some days you could set your watch to it. Unfortunately it did not last for more than a few hours each day, so as the feeds got later and later the rest of the day was a dud. But unlike many other species of fish in the worlds oceans you can not change tactics and do something else because as soon as you do the Tuna will throw you a curve ball and feed all day long.

Monster Bluefin (ooops) August 2k9

A couple years ago (2005) if you had told me we were going to be catching these simple, easy 20-30 lb. baby Blue fin Tuna on the heaviest tackle known to man and it would most likely hurt you really bad, possibly throw your back out for weeks, I would have said Naaahhh.... But here we are, not only are the cute little Tuna that were approximately 30-33" and jumping around in front of my Glacier Bay Catamaran outside of Westport Harbor, now putting truck size holes in the water off Gloucester, Massachusetts, they are mean (grrrr). I watched as Ryan and Rob worked hard (I had to run the camera) on a Tuna that was around 75 inches today. It was totally nuts. We all saw it eat a Tattoo Sea Dog (white) like it was a small piece of candy left in front of a hungry French guy who has not eaten in three weeks and then the battle was on. Ryan did his part. He whined, got really sweaty, and looked like he was going to black out before Rob stepped in and brought the fish to the boat, where we gaffed it and brought it along side the boat (which suddenly looked small). I called Ryan a sissy, I did, but this fish was HUGE and I am glad he hooked it instead of me.