FISHERMEN’S NOTICE Due to the heavy surf expected from Hurricane Earl, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge management has made these determinations in the interest of safety: . -As of immediately, no travel is currently allowed south of the Hell Cat Interpretive Trail on the refuge road (the road is gated where the paved road ends). [...]
Got some very promising reports today, the eave of Earl. Bluefish continue to be taken deep. Today I heard that butterfly jigs were working just outside the mouth, near the MR buoy. Still no blues on the shore so far. . But against all odds, we have a picture from our pal TallJeff with his [...]
Armageddon! Fire and Brimstone! Dogs and cats living together! The Earl hype is just beginning here on Plum Island. What the hell will happen depends on who you listen to. From the moderates we hear it will rain Friday night and be a little breezy. The progressives are predicting a 14 foot storm surge and [...]
It’s all gloom and doom on the fishing front this weekend. Seems like the storm last week didn’t improve the fishing, but diminished it. Only a few catches reported, none of the standard bluefish blitzes, but we did get this huge photo from the Parker River. Smallest bluefish ever caught around here? . Dave Rimmer [...]
The weather has turned very nice, and the river, at least, is calmer. Off shore the waves from our NE wind were kicking up to 3 feet with whitecaps, so no especially flat water to watch tuna or whales. And no bluefish in their regular haunts off High Sandy either.. . However there is some [...]
While most of us were cowered in their living rooms watching reruns of Welcome Back Kotter for the last few days, the devoted ones still fished. Yesterday, when the wind was peaking at 44mph, and the rain was horizontal, one of our customers came in for a bag of clams. Kay was not just a [...]
As you probably expect, the coastal weather here has been exceptionally ugly since Monday. Today is actually worse. It’s pissing down horizontal rain, and the top wind this morning has been 44 mph. So not very good for fishing. In fact, the only thing we’ve heard about in Joppa Flats is a 35 foot sailboat [...]
The wind, that is. It’s howling out today around 20-30mph due east. The beach will take a beating, especially considering the full moon tide is tomorrow, and the stormy weather will last through Thursday. Better double the weight on your clam/worm rigs to cast into the stiff wind. . Today was the Parker River National [...]
Judging from the reports on the river and from the beach last night, it was very slow. We saw a couple of medium sized fish taken on the outgoing tide last night, but no one was cheering. The fish were not making themselves known, with only a few swirls around. Eels didn’t seem to make [...]
Today and last night we got reports of very few fish in the normal places. Tall Jeff said the flats, “sucked.” Martha Moulton and Jimmy reported that there was not much going on, though they did pull in a 36″ bass. Jim Chase was out this morning and fished the river from the 95 bridge [...]
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