Surf Fly Fishing Report 9/13 Day 4

Fly fished again this morning at the usual spot. Beautiful morning again and there was life in the area. Had one fish on but lost it after 2 seconds.

Calm conditions seemed to make the fish a little spooky. I was hoping for the light NE that was predicted yesterday.
Saw Collin on the beach as well. He was headed up for some little tunny. Best of luck with the speedsters!

Looking forward to some cooler weather.

Leif

Surf Fly Fishing Report 9/12 Got 'em

Fished the Deal surf again this morning...Wow 3 days in a row! I give Al credit for going every morning at 89 years young.


In any event, I fished from 6:00am to 7:00am and wound up with another short 24" Striper. As usual I was using a snake fly and the fish hit right in the wash.

It was a beautiful morning and the swell has subsided. Mullet and rain fish in the wash being chased by small bass and blues. Further out were some bunker schools and dophin.

Leif

The Real Deal Snake Fly Report 9/10

Hit the surf today at 5:30am. Fished with the fly rod for bass in the wash. It was a beautiful morning with a light breeze out of the north. Nice white water from the swell and an outgoing tide. I fished a 2/0 snake fly on my 11wt with 12wt line.

On the third cast I was hooked up and landed a nice fat feisty 25 incher.

Not a bad way to start the day. Also good to see Al down there this am!

Leif

Bucks Mills Bass 8/12/12

Leif and I hit a couple of ponds on Sunday morning. He did better than I did with the bass using his bait casters. I got on small bass and a bunch of bluegills on the fly rod. Nice to get out with the boy. 

Golden Touch Fluke 7/30/12

Golden Day on the Golden Touch. Fished with Howie, Bill, Jack, Richie and John Cole today. Fine Fluking. Howie was high hook with 7 Fluke and a few big ones. with Howie Allen and 2 others.

Sea Soda Fluke 7/712

Fished with  Howie, John, Devin and Brian Budda sticks on the Sea Soda today for a pre tourney fluke trip . We caught a ton of fluke up to 7lbs and a couple nice sea bass!

Cod and Haddock 4/22/12

Capt. Dave pretty much summed it up. Busy catching cod, haddock and cusk all day. Chad had a nice rosefish. By the end of the day we had at least 60 fish in the boxes for the six of us. Nice trip.

Dave fished with us and caught quite a few on his new Kevin Bogan 7ft carbon mix rod.
Weather held out for us but we had 5-8 footers pretty much all day and no rain.
Great fishing and having dinner with Howie, Jon, Chad, Sean and Rusty. Glad we all got out and had a good trip.

Capt. Dave and Sandro took care of us all day and sent us all home with a 15lb bag of fillets.



Leif

Norma K III Night Ling Report 02/18/12

I took a break from the Mackerel this weekend and fished with Snapperhead today on the Norma K III on their 8-2:30 Ling and Cod trip. Snapper's buddy Leif was gearing up for the tennis team try-outs and missed the trip. We had a beautiful day on the water and came home with a bunch of nice ling.


Capt. Matt made several spots to try and get the boat over some ling minus the dogfish. Every stop had fish on it. We had to move a few times but Capt. Matt hit it right on the last one and we were catching them one after the other. We had some small fish but most were nice size medium ling.

We used our Kevin Bogan Carbon Mix 7ft Ling rods and Snapper and I wound up with 51 ling. A far cry from the reports of this past week but we were more than happy. A Pollack won the pool.

Always a pleasure fishing on the Norma K III

We stopped by Kevin Bogan's shop to say hello and check out the rods before getting a bowl of clam chowder for the road. Nice work they are doing over there. Beautiful rods.

Leif

Golden Eagle Mackerel Report 02/09/12

 A great day out on the Golden Eagle. I managed 200 mackerel almost filling my 72 quart cooler!

It's not too often you meet someone with such a passion for fishing. Fishing for mackerel is not easy these days but Capt. Jimmy Elliott still makes the effort. Comercial fishing, rising costs, fierce competition and other factors don't stop him.

He takes people fishing because he loves it. He wants them to catch fish. He wants them to catch mackerel. He consistently monitors the situation and adapts, making every effort to fill the coolers.

Capt. Jimmy has respect for the customers he has and is happy when they catch fish. He respects the tradition and the diversity the mackerel fishing brings.

Thank you Capt. Jimmy Elliott!

Golden Eagle Big Mac Attack!! 01/28/12

Mack attack is right! Boy, We killed 'em today. Ben and I had about 300 macks. We were smiling the whole day. The trip just kept getting better with some bigguns at the end. I filleted about 150 in an hour and a half and then ran out to dinner. Many zip loc gallon bags filled with macks and herring.


IT WAS MARVELOUS MURDERING THOSE MAGNIFICENT MACKEREL. WE MAXED OUT ON THE MULTITUDES AND MANY MACKEREL MEMORIES WERE MADE!

I had a good feeling about today and it was a great day.
Capt. Jimmy knows how to find them. There is no doubt.

Thanks Greg, Jimmy and the crew of the Golden Eagle for a great trip.

NICE TO SEE FISHNUT AND GREAT TALKING TO GENE....82 AND STILL MACK'IN IT!!

Leif