First bass of the season turns out to be a big one. Brian and I decided to get out on cedar lake today to try our luck. We were running a little late so a didn’t get out until about 4:30. The wind was down and the sun was shining, but the fish weren’t biting, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 8, 2009
Norwich harbor fishing report for March 8th and the last couple weeks. After thinking a lot about all the hold over schoolie striped bass in Norwich Harbor in March in previous years, I decided to try my luck for a bit tonight. I figured with the warm weather this weekend the stripers would be active, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
The iPhone is taking the world by storm, and is making an impact on everything it touches. Today I installed a wordpress app that allows me to take photos and make fishing reports to IFishCT.com in realtime right on the water. No more waiting to get home to make a report, simply catch that trophy [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Fisher’s Island Sound Blackfish and a trip to the race for bluefish and striped bass Yesterday Brian and I joined Greg, a lifetime saltwater fisherman in Mystic for a shot at the sounds triple crown, blackfish, bluefish and stripers. We got on the water around 7am and headed out of Mystic on Greg’s 26 foot [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CT fall fishing is upon us and largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing has been slow at best lately. I have seen reports of people working hard for every bass they catch, with most success being found using spider jigs, tubes, and jig and pig around structure in 5-8ft of water. I wasn’t planning on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Location: Long Sand Shoal, Eastern Rip, Outer Hatchetts Reef Date: 9/21/08 Since the season was winding down on Cedar Lake we decided to take the boat out of the water last weekend and make a trip to the sounds for some striper, bluefish, and porgy fishing before we dropped the boat off at the marina to be [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
This past week Kate and I took a well deserved vacation to Riviera Maya, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. While there we spent some time in Playa Del Carmen which is just South of Riviera Maya. We decided to do some deep sea fishing while we were there, and hired a panga boat captain from [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 6, 2008
Dock fishing was calling my name last night when I got home after getting my hair cut. I had bought some Kinami swimming senkos a few weeks back but never really gave them a chance. I texas rigged one with a mustad 4/0 bleeding hook and starting fishing around the buoys and docks on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 19, 2008
After struggling to find fish the last few times out on the lake in the normal places, I turned to a different strategy yesterday morning. Instead of fishing the usual rockpiles, and submerged weed beds that have been productive all year, we started fishing the shaded side of the numerous docks lining the lake [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Kate, Sally (our maltese) and I decided to do a little fishing last night since it had been a while since either of us had gotten out. The weather was beautiful, the sunset was spectacular, the lake was crowded, and the fishing was terrible. I decided to fish a couple spots that I normally don’t [...]
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
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