Doubled Up Chartersfishing reports

Spring 2012

2012-07-06T08:25:00.000-05:00

This was one of the most productive springs that we had ever witnessed... We found loads of mackerel, schools of pogies and lots of Stripers. Most of our fishing was done off Race Point, where we butterflied up dozens of bass each trip. Before the "Race Bite" was on we had done some fishing around Billingsgate and along the backside of Nantucket. Early in June we fished Buzzards for limits of beautiful Giant Seabass (3-4#). Our most memorable trip this season, was with the boys from D&G Bait and Tackle. On a tip from a friend (Tyler), we found a huge school of Stripers inside CC Bay - pushing bait on the surface... Dave and crew threw my pencil poppers and caught around 50 Bass from 18-28#'s. I think they could have caught more, but by 10:45am - their arms were sore..... On the Lake Ontario side - The mild winter kept schools of bait around the eastern end of Lake"O". In turn, most all of the charters had limit catches by 11am. Limits are not unusual in the early spring, but with a excellent mixture of Kings mixed in, was a welcoming bonus. This past week we boated dozens of Salmon, and caught Steelies up to 13#. Not bad for the "dog days" of July! We still have some prime weekend days open for charters, but they are evaporating quickly. Give us a call for availability, and wish us luck in the Monster Shark Tournament! <'/////><

2011-09-09T21:03:00.003-05:00

Sorry to have fallen off the block with only a couple of posts this season. Unfortunately, my time on the Cape leaves me with no Internet... This season, I have had a lot of time away form Paxton to be on the water. The summer of 2011 we had caught more bass than ever before. Unfortunately, the average size was down form years past but we had many days of 60-100 keepers boated (15-30#). Most of our summer fishing took place off Chatham, where we would butterfly jig and cast deadly dicks. The action was so hot that one day we pulled out the fly rods and caught 26 keepers pushing the scales to over #25. Now that the hurricane season is here, the fishing has entirely changed. Most all of the Chatham fish have moved south, and some larger Stripers have finally moved in to the Bay. Today, we found the seas to be very rough but my clients form Jersey and Philly braved out the 4-5' waves and produced fish in the mid 20# range to our second largest bass this year of 37.3#. Only a couple of open dates left for the fall migration, hope to fill them! Will be updating web photo's soon!! Steve <'////><

2011-07-18T21:11:00.002-05:00

Hi All;
It should be common knowledge by now that the old "Doubled Up" was severely damaged this past winter. The storage facility claimed the lives of 5 boats (due to snow overload). Unfortunately, this disaster delayed my start until after the run of "big" bass passed by.. On the bright side - the new "Doubled Up" is slightly larger, better equipped and is more comfortable.
My first trips of the season, produced small to moderate sized fish. We were mostly fishing in Cape Cod bay, chasing large schools that were producing fish to 34". Recently, we have moved out of the "bay" and have found bigger schools of hungrier bass (34-42").
Thankfully, our methods of "catchin" have been using light tackle. Mostly - casting, vertical jigging, chunking and pulling Manns Stretch 25's. With any luck, the fish will stay put and we will be "Bangin Em" for weeks to come.. Hope to see you soon ! Tight lines; <'////><

2010-07-30T19:05:00.002-05:00

Quick update of the last couple of weeks. Tuna have moved off the Chatham Beaches into deeper waters. Although most of the fish caught were in the 70" range (non keepers), it was fun while it lasted. Commercial Striper season has started, and we have already caught more weight than last year. Most of my trips (8 hrs), have caught close to their limits. Every one of these trips has caught a Bass over 30 #. The biggest fish of the season has been a 49#er. Most of my fishing has been inside the Bay, tube and worm and bunker spoons have been our best methods. All the tube colors are working, and our most sucessful spoons have been the green and white Tournament Grade Tackle. When we have found serfice activity we are throwing plugs along with Whip it eels.

2010-07-12T07:50:00.003-05:00

Have had several trips over the last couple of weeks. Saturday June 25 - Matt and his buds from RI + NY fished with us and landed 8 Stripers from 22 to 49#. Most of them came on the tube and worm, although the largest 2 were caught on the whip-it eel. Sunday -Paul, Stevie and Chris had a very poor outing, fishing the same area we were only able to catch a couple of 30" Bass. Monday - Rob Bulla and some of his accts came in to find very rough waters. After a couple of hrs of pounding we pulled the boat out. During breakfast we discussed moving to calmer waters in Barnstable Harbor. Here we would be doing some chunking during the outgoing tide. The group caught many stripers, and everyone was able to take home a couple of fillets. Tuesday the 29th was another blow off day. Wednesday, Jason from CT wanted to try his luck for Tuna. We started off in Cape Cod Bay, and after a hour or two of searching we pulled the boat and headed to Chatham. The waters were light up with fish, and we had 3 different opportunities but were unable to land a fish. The weekend of the 4th was spent on Lake O with the family. Only a couple of hours on the water we landed 1 king. Water temp was 50 deg at 150'. July 9 - Big RICKIE joined us for some excellent fishing. William a 8yr old, landed a 44# to start off the day. At the end all 4 people had a Striper over 40#. Kevin from RI fished with us on Sat. He and his 2 boys had 5 Stripers from 25 - 45#. Again, most of these fish were caught on tube and worm as well as bunker spoons. There has not been one specific area we have been finding these large bass. We have been fishing from the Dump to Billingsgate Shoal.

2010-06-18T14:40:00.003-05:00

Last Sunday (6-13) was a very exciting trip. Off the tip of P Town we started out using bunker spoons - First 2 passes we had 1/2 dz Bass to 40". Spotting some working birds we pulled the wire and went casting (to what we thought were Blues). Using Al Gagg's "Whip-it Eels" we landed a estimated 60 Bass from 34-42". Monday we were off to search for some Black Sea Bass in Buzzards Bay. That day and the following we had our limit of fish (60) on hand tied jigs, from the Bad Fish Outfitters. Wednesday, we were back to P Town to do some more casting. Same results, 80 to 100 Stripers to the mid 30# range on the "Whip it eels" and some of my pencil poppers. By 8 am, we bent all the barbs over so we could release fish much easier. Thruought all of this action we had only caught a a dz Blues ! Hope this action continues for a while !!

2010-06-05T19:00:00.002-05:00

Sorry for the delay ! Saturday May 22 Richard and his son Rich joined us for a mixed bag of Cod, Pollock and Mackerel. At first light we caught around 80 Mackerel to liveline for Stripers, with no avail. Out to Stellwagon we headed in 130' of water to catch many shorts and a few keepers to hit the deck. Sunday Todd and the concrete boys joined us to target Stripers. After 30 Mackerel we headed east to the #1 Can at the southern edge of Billingsgate to search. Within minutes we had our first keeper, and finished up with one short of the crew's limit. The fish were in the 32-38' range and were very hard to hook on the live bait. Actually, we had to make a trip back to the Canal to reload the livewell to catch our last few. Since the Salt trips I had fished Lake Ontario and the ALC Club. Between the Adarondaic League and Lake O we hit em pretty hard, 74 Trout 4 Salmon and 1 Laker. Back out this week for Stripers and Sea Bass. See U soon !

2009-10-16T13:52:00.004-05:00

Columbus Day weekend was spent guiding on the Salmon River in Upstate NY. We encountered very high water and cool temperatures for most of the weekend. Fishing the upper fly zone on Friday brought us several browns to 7#, a couple of steelie's to the 5# mark along with kings approaching 30#. Moving north to South Sandy Creek on Saturday brought us into a crowd of fisherman. We managed several hookups in the morning saw many fish landed. The afternoon bite was much better for us, the croud thinned out and the fish turned on. Drew landed the largest King of the trip that was 30 + #, Russ landed a 6 # Steelie along with a couple of Kings. Mike G. landed a couple of browns to 7# and several kings. Mikey had multiple hookups and finally landed a 26 # king. Steve G. had a wonderful trip landing King, a Brown along and had a few other hookups. The highlight of Armand's trip was sleeping in the vehicle, instead of the rat infested hotel. Andrew had a slow weekend, but his son Matt landed a beautiful Coho. My son Jake landed beautiful 8# steelie, and hooked several Kings. Kevin H. fished the river for his first time and landed a beautiful king. I am not sure but i think his dad landed a cold, from having wet feet all weekend. Let's not forget about fall down BOB and his Son. I am certain they only landed hangovers !

2009-09-29T10:54:00.002-05:00

Rhode Island was the destination this past weekend. Saturday we worked the waters from Pt. Jude - north to the mouth of the Narrow River. Finding the waters somewhat vacant we managed to find a cloud of Anchovy's. The Anchovy's were being attacked by small blues and there were some Green Bonita mixed in. As soon as our spoons hit the water we were hooked up to a blue and unfortunately we never caught a Bonita. Never finding any Stripers we shot across to Block. Working the eastern edge, we managed to catch 4 Stripers to 32 #. Sunday was a wash out, canceling that trip to a later date. Monday we headed back out to the Block, or at least that is where we thought we were going. Only to find whitewater coming over the center wall. We decided to pull the boat and head for some calmer waters in Cape Cod Bay. Heading out the east end of the Canal we saw School Tuna breaking, trying to intercept them for a half hour we were frustrated. Over to Scorton Ledge we motored for some Tube and worm action. Our first pass we landed a 20 # fish, followed up by a small Blue. For the next hour we searched the area and came up with nothing. We headed over to Sandy neck for some more tube and worm action. Landing several shorts and a couple of Blues, one of our lines took off. After 10 minute battle for a 16yr old he boated a 43.5 # Striper. A short time later the same rod took off, now it was a experienced angler's turn on a large Bass. The fish took out 350' of line on the initial run, and did the same 3 more times until he decided to charge the boat. Unfortunately the line went slack and the fish was lost. Never seeing the fish, we could only imagine it was the LARGEST Striper we had hooked all season.

2009-09-22T11:06:00.003-05:00

Had 4 triathlonist out on Sept 12 for a good morning on Scorton. The group from Western Mass compeated in a small triathlon in Centerville in the morning,and headed to Sandwich for a afternoon trip. I had fished the ledge in the morning for a limit of Bass in the 12-18# range. On the incoming tide we found that bigger bass followed. Most of their Stripers were in the 15- 29# catagory. One cool thing that we saw happen was a 10 # blue come flying out of the water with a giant tuna in persuit. Immediatly following were 60-100 # tuna busting everywhere. We pulled in our tube and worm setups and persued. Unfortunatly we never caught up to them., and chased them around the bay for a hour and a half. Headed out tunain tommorow and then to RI for 3 trips. Just a few more weeks till huntin season ! Best fishin is to come. <'////><

2009-09-07T20:35:00.003-05:00

Scorton Ledge was the destination we had headed for last Tues (Sept 1). Brett and his group limited out on Stripers (before 8:30AM), on the tube and worm. Most of the fish caught were in the 20-25# range. The party wanted to try to find some breaking fish to cast to, so our tactic had changed. Searching the bay, we could not find any breaking fish or working birds. Back to the ledge we headed for some more fun on the tube and worm. Thursday afternoon Dan, and a couple of his bud's wanted in on the action. The ledge was very different upon arrival, 3 dozen boats and the Lowrance screen was almost blank. We worked the area for a couple of hours, and caught dozens of bass on the 6-10# range, many of these fish we were "Doubled Up". Although we boated 3-15 # + bass, we lost several bigger fish. Cruising about 8 miles north, we went into the Tuna search mode. We chased several pods of breaking fish around, but unfortunately we never hooked up. The guys really enjoyed this stalking action, and commented it was like fishing and hunting combined. Lake Ontario was the last destination that I had returned from. Fishing was very slow this weekend, most of the Salmon were in 70-100' of water. Most fish caught were on or near the bottom, with Spin Doctors and flies. Green was our hottest color, followed by white glow and silver. I had taken a ride to the Salmon River on Sat afternoon (sept 5) and found that the run had begun. The concentration offish were in the estuary and some were in the upper fly zone. Back out this weekend - Hopefully in search of some more Tuna !

2009-08-30T15:26:00.002-05:00

Tues the 25th. we made a attempt at fishing commercially off of Monomy. Although some of the other boats in the fleet were doing well, we didn't. Managing to catch several shorts, we ended our day with 4 - 34+" Bass. Wednesday the 26th back to Monomy we headed, shortening our wire to 200'and changing to pink jigs we were soon to limit out ! Well that's what we had thought ! The weather kicked up on us forcing us into Cape Cod Bay. Spotting many birds working offshore, we decided to see what was up. To my surprise, the birds were working over breaking Stripers. Casting some of my home made creations, we caught numerous Bass in the 30-33"range. There were some commercial size Bass mixed in, and we landed 3 of them. As my luck has it, Commercial season ended that day. Thursday, was the day it would explode for us. After a strong north wind Wednesday night, we worked the beach off Sandy Neck. Tube and worm, was our method of catching and releasing over 35 Srtipers in the 25-40# range. Go to figure, commercial season ends and we load up. One nice thing to see was, a 8yr. old catch 2 bass over the 30# mark. He and his dad were not doing so well, so we decided to give him one of our rod setup's. They didn't have leadcore, so we loaned him one of ours. It was a treat for all of us to watch him struggle with these large fish on light tackle. Back on the water Tues. Will update later this week. Hope the fish stay where we had left them !

2009-08-24T07:56:00.003-05:00

Back out on Lake Ontario for a couple of days last week (15th - 16th). Fishing was very good with 7 fish each day. All the Salmon were caught on dodgers and flies 100-120' down over 200-250' of water. Again, the colors are white glow (first thing am) then blue and green (mid morn) to the silvers (middle of day). After fishing Lake O, I returned back to the Ocean for a couple of trips. The first trip (19th) we launched in Sandwich to fish tuna off of the SW corner of Stellwagon. After our live baits were in the water, (for all of about 30 seconds) we were "Doubled Up". Unfortunately, the lines instantly crossed and both lines broke. Watching our balloons till 1 pm, they never dipped again. Rudy and his boys needed some action so we had headed into Striper waters. They landing six beauties between 20 and 30 #'s in about a hour to finish their 12 hour charter. On the 20th, we fished off Block Island with a crew from Gillette. They boated their first Striper in less than a minute after we throttled back. The action was hot and heavy all morning, boating over 25 fish. The only thing that could have been better than Jim's 40# er could have been less fog.
Over these 4 trips we had some beautiful fish, and also one unusual thing happen to us. On the 19th, we were headed to Plymouth to catch live bait in the dark. Nearing the harbor entrance, my boat started to make funny noises. We thought we had a lobster pot wrapped in our props. Well- to make a long story short, we were running over acres and acres of dogfish. As far as you could see there were dogfish covering the surface,

2009-08-11T19:39:00.003-05:00

Back from Lake O. Weather, had changed the fishing pattern as I had arrived. Back to the little blue book for some past patterns, I went. Fishing bind Thurs, we had found the thermocline down 95'. Setting our riggers to 90,100 and 115' we had our first king on in less than 15 min. Using flashers and flies was our method of choice. The Lake Winni group boated 6 nice kings on Thurs and 2 Kings and two nice Rainbows on Sat. All of our fish were caught on blue flasher/flie combo's mostly 115' down and 330' on the dipsys. The bait pods were in 240 to 270' of water. Largest King of the trip was 38" long weighing a honest 29 #. Arriving back in MA on Sat, brought me back into the saltwater scene. Sunday morning, I headed off to RI to fish the waters of Block Island for a couple trips. Joe and Mike Shic, had been doing quite well, so I decided to try my luck in their area. Good fortune, was quite easy to find. We had limit catches of Stripers both days. Most of the fish we caught were in the 24-31# range. Eels in the 20 - 30' water depths was our most successful method. Although, we did catch a couple of smaller Stripers on pencil poppers. Back to Lake O, I head this weekend to help finish the camp. In the ocean mid next week for some tuna action !
Catch em up ! <'////><

2009-07-31T19:55:00.003-05:00

Out three times this past week - Tues the 28th fishing was much better. We started out of Sandwich at 6am. Trolling bunker spoons was our method of attack. Around 6:20 we had a 38 # Striper boated. For the next hour and a half we only had one more hit. The talk of the week was Race point, so that's where we headed. Our plans were to troll tube and worm, but when we arrived we were flabbergasted with boat traffic. Everyone and there brother who had a commercial license, were drifting eels. Lots of fish were boated of commercial size. We tried our best to troll between the pack, and managed 3 more fish. As the tide left, off to Sandy Neck we journied. Boating two more 20 # ers on spoons,our day was over. Wednesday was the day that we ventured out of Chatham, back to the Tuna grounds. Upon a one hour ride through the heavy fog we landed on a huge pod of bait. The bait ball was surrounded by whales, also Stripers and Bluefish. Working the Sandeel batch, we found no sign of Tuna. Working feverishly for the next eight hours we never hooked up. At times we could barely see the bow of the Doubled Up. It's too bad that the fog was so thick, only two 65" fish were landed from the fleet. Thursday we loaded up with eels to hit the race hard ! As usual the weather man was wrong again ! Calling for the seas to be calm in the morning, we left port in a 20 +mph sw wind. This wind would keep us away from the Race for a while. We decieded to pull spoons in the wind and the rain for a while. The weather dictated that we stay within a couple fo miles off the beach. This only brought us one rod pinning strike, with the hook pulling after a short fight. As the day went on the weather broke, and we ran to the race. Things looked much brighter as there were only about three dozen boats, versus over two hunderd on Tues. On the first drift we boated our first bass of the day. With the tide diminishing we were fortunate to land five more keepers. All of these fish were between 14 and 25 pounds. Giving the Cape a break for a week or two, off to Ontario I go for a couple of trips. I am excited to see the numbers of fish we marked, and look forward to a excellent August. Look for a new post in about a week.

2009-07-23T13:44:00.002-05:00

Sorry this blog is missing a couple of weeks . We have been hitting the waters regularly-but the computer blew up! This report is our Trips July 13,14,15,18 &19. On July 13 we fished off Monomy Island for a 5 keeper Striped Bass(up to 33")with numerous shorts. Most of the fish were caught throwing topwaters although the larger Bass were caught jigging parachutes.The 14th was the first day of commercial season. We headed to Martha's Vinyard to fish the rips off the southeast corner ( ). When we arrived we found very warm water (72`), along with many bluefish. We recieved a phone call from a friend whom was fishing out of Barnstable and doing quite well. We decided to pull the boat to increase our chances to catch saleable fish (>34"). We arrived to a slow outgoing tide and decided to chunk. Again, numerous schoolies was the only thing to hit the deck. Off the water to dinner,we went. Arriving back at the ramp at dark, we would fish till 11pm. Again nothing but schoolies ! Wednesday the 15 we decided to hit the offshore grounds for some Tuna action. Around 9 am we had a fish come up and hit our long outside bar. Mark perfectly fought the 150 # plus Tuna for 25 min only to have the hook pull. Not quite sure what had happened ? The 18th we had a last minute cancellation and decided to play around the Vineyard for a few hours. We never wet a line that afternoon, our Lowrance HDS units told us not to waste out efforts. The 19th one of my favorite groups decided to let us venture off shore in pursuit of Bluefin. Trolling until 11 am we never raised a fish, though there was a lot of radio chatter of fish being caught. Back to the rips of Monomy we went for out last couple of hours. When we had arrived there I had noticed a angler pulling a 30 incher over the rail. That fish was the only live thing that I had seen for the next 3 hours. Including any birds ,seals or crustaceans ! Sunday the 19th will go down in history as to be my first GOOSE EGG Charter ! As the water temperatures set up, my belief is to see the fishing pick up. Last August was our best month, let's keep our fingers crossed.

2009-07-05T09:29:00.002-05:00

The McLaughlin's joined us on Fri (July 3) for a trip to Monomoy.Tyler and myself tried to catch bait (bunker)in Stage Harbor before the trip, with no success. We picked up the group at 7 am and headed to the rips off Chatham. The tide was not running when we arrived there, so we back tracked to the flats off Stage Harbor. Caught a few small Blues (2 pounder's) and headed back thru the fog to the rips. Dumped a 100 yds of wire off the reels , and throttled back. Tyler (The Jig Master)explained to the group how to work the parachute jigs. Ward immediately hooked up with a nice 20 lb Bass. As he was working the fish close to the boat Tyler hooked up on the other rod. As they were bringing the fish close to the boat in the pea soup fog, I noticed some large Bass busting the surface. Grabbed the spinning rod, and now we had three on. Unfortunately,the fog was so thick we could that we could not stay on top of the busting fish. Back to jigging we went,now Meghan was on the wire. She was the next to hook up with a 25 # Striper and bring it to boat side. After landing that one,She Beat Tyler to the next one. She repeated this several more times letting Tyler hook up once and awhile. William (he 6yr old trooper) , was even in on the action. Teaming up with his dad he managed to wind in a couple. Bob and his boys, concentrated on casting to the surfacing Stripers. They did manage to raise a few and bring them to boat side as well. The only thing that could have been better for the trip, would have been less or no fog. You couldn't see 50 yds, and if you could have you could have filled the boat casting to the breaking fish. We kept loosing sight of them ! Back out next week ! <'////><

2009-06-28T20:15:00.003-05:00

Back on the water this past Fri + Sat. Heard news of Tuna on the SW Corner of Stellwagon last week. Three generations of the Mankin family joined us this past Fri to target Stripers. Talking Dick into trying for a Tuna first thing in the AM we left the dock at 4:30. Journeyed across Cape Cod Bay to the grounds was a pleasant ride. Tried for a couple of hours with spreader bars with no avail. Saw a few whales, some bait and scattered birds. Not enough sign to keep our hopes up and our eyes open, we headed to Peaked Hill Bar for some Bass. Trolled Mann's Stretch 30 for a couple of hours, landing about a dz Stripers and Blues. During the battle with one of the Stripers we noticed several Tuna in the 150# range busting the surface. We put out a 9" slugo, hoping for a Tuna hookup. Unfortunatly, no Tuna but a 30 something # Bass wanted it for a snack. As the tide turned our fishing slowed and we wandered back into Cape Cod Bay. Finding some diving Gannet's we dropped our lines back in. The bite was now starting to turn back on! It seemed that we were landing a Striper every five to ten minutes. The sizes were any where in the 24 to 38" range. They seemed pretty happy getting back to the dock with their limit catch. Saturday we headed back out to Stellwagon with the same intention with the Thomas party. Same results - not much Tuna sign ! Back to Peaked Hill for some more Striper action with Stretches. Then we decided to jig some wire on The Race. Again we lost the tide and headed for our previous days spot in C.C. Bay. Once we arrived there we soon found out about 50 other boats were working our spot. Still, the action was hot and exciting with a few bigger Bass than the previous day. Tyler filleted ten more bass for this group in the 15# to 30# range. Water should be warming up soon, kicking the Tuna Bite into high gear. Calm Seas <'////><

2009-06-23T11:48:00.003-05:00

For the first time we competed in the LCI Tournament (Lake Champlain International)
Arriving last Fri (June 19) we settled in to our boat slip and motel mid afternoon. Never fishing Champlain before, we had received information that there were bigger Lake Trout around than in years past. This would be the main species that we would target. We set out that afternoon to go thru our equipment and do some pre - fishing. Getting the bugs worked out and scouting some hot spots we felt confident we would be into Lakers for the weekend. Sat morning brought us a lot of action with small fish. We wound up with 19 fish from 2 to 6 #. Deciding to fish a entirely different area in the afternoon, we hoped for bigger Trout. The first fish of the afternoon was slightly smaller than the biggest we caught in the morning. This excited us and we decided to work this area for the rest of the event. That evening we had one of our dipsy diver rods go off with what appeared to be a substantially larger fish. Unfortunately the hook pulled and we never saw the fish! Sunday morning we caught 9 Lakers with our largest 2 being in the 8# size bracket. These 2 fish were weighed in and wound up being our best 2 for the weekend. From noon on Sunday the lake had kicked up with strong north winds. Unfortunately, a strong wind like we were experiencing was preventing us to fish productively. Using Davis Spinners and small Rapala' s, you must maintain a 1 +1/2 mph speed. This wind was pushing us up to 2.5 then down to .5 mph. We still managed to catch a few more fish but we couldn't produce the numbers like the days before. For the Tournament we finished in the top 20%, which in my mind is great- for never having fished the lake before. All in all, we had a lot of fun and caught quite a few fish. I would like to thank my Crew of Bob D. Andrew V. and my DAD, for all their help with running the rods and help controlling the boat. The LCI is one of the best organized Tournaments that I had competed in ! I hope to see some of you guys there next Fathers Day, I will be sure to go back ! Please call or write for any info or help you would like for this area. Tight Lines ! Capt. Steve <'////><

2009-06-16T08:35:00.002-05:00

Sunday June 14 and Monday June 15 we targeted Black Sea Bass in Buzzards Bay. Both days were very successful with 58 keepers on Sun and 95 on Mon. We were useing white Spro jigs tipped with squid strips. Around 90 % of the Sea bass we caught were legal size. Screwy Louie and his two companions Stanley and Stan ususlly want to target Fluke on this trip,but the season does not open till July 1 this year. We did manage to catch and let go a couple of fluke in the 18 to 22 " bracket. Monday we noticed a huge flock of Turns working in the Chanal to the Canal. Hurring to pick up our bottom rigs we flew across and started firing plugs ! Instantly we had three large Blues on!After catching a couple of dozen we went back to bottom fishing. Ariving back on our waypoint we dropped down and instantly everyone was "Doubled Up" ! This ferroucious bite didn't last very long but we had about 25 flopping on the floor in about 5 minnutes.

2009-06-06T20:39:00.004-05:00

Today (sat june 6)we set out in search of Stripers along the Elizabeth Islands. We were hoping to catch some larger fish following the bunker. After plugging along the shoreline and behind every one of my secret boulders, we caught 1 rat (20") bass. Not marking much or witnessing any other anglers hooked up, we decided to switch species. We headed to Cleaveland Ledge (near the west end of the canal). First couple of drifts were slow,and now we started to become even more frustrated ! The tide started to pick up and so did the fishing. Black Sea Bass, tataug, fluke, scup, bluefish, searobins and even a choggie were on the feed. All in all we fileted almost 40 monster sea bass and 30 jumbo scup. Not the migrating cows we were looking for but a lot of other action and some good eats ! <'////><

2009-06-01T09:03:00.005-05:00

After a cold hard winter the "Doubled Up" finally got wet this past weekend. We fished the Cape (out of Sandwich) for Stripers both Sat + Sun. The intentions were to catch some Mackerel, to live line. Filling up both tanks with bait, was a little more time consuming than I had hoped for. After a short run we were finally fishing. Within 30 seconds of the first bait hitting the water we were into the Stripers ! The biggest fish of the weekend was in the 35# range caught by a 12yr old angler. Most of the other Keepers were around the 20# mark. We also caught many 28-30 # fish, using up all of our bait. Both groups wound up with limit # catches of fish ! Thanks to Todd, Chad (the 12 yr old) and Mike for Sat. Donald, Chris, Paul and Brian for Sun.