Well the pogies still maintain the lead as far as food of choice by the stripers. Same story as last week, if you can snag a pogie your chances of following up with a bass is 50/50. But Kim Crotty did Friday. Kim is visiting from Deerfield NH. She caught this fish on a liv

Pogies Pogies Pogies The amount of pogies out front along the ocean this year is incredible. Up and down the coast we have heard from many  fishermen in from many different places that the size of the pods are massive. The sightings of small whales, big tuna, and stripers feeding

The temps are rising both in the water and out of the water. That makes for a slowdown of both people and fish. There is still plenty of action going on, but not as hot and heavy as it was the last few weeks. But what the rise in temperatures also brings out is greenheads in

Saturday am was a great day for Dan Blais from Nashua NH. And a short one. Dan likes to be an early bird some days and with the tide Saturday he decided to come and fish daybreak into the incoming tide along the oceanfront at parking lot 1 on the Parker River Wildlife Refuge. No

The Tube-n-Worm has become one of the most effective pieces of tackle for fishing Joppa Flats. How simple of a rig, but how effective! Just remember, this simple rig can make a mess of your line. We always recommend using a good swivel or two to help prevent bad line twists.

Coach Bossi This man has still got it! Up at the crack of dawn, out on the water, checking lobster pots, catching mackerel, snagging pogies, and then hooking into a big bass on that live pogie. Many of you that will see this post will know George, he has touched the lives of

Whatever you call them they are back again this year. Fields and fields of pogies everywhere out front along Plum Island Beach as well as north and south. Fishermen are just bouncing around from one to another chasing the illusive striper. When pogies are around good luck

Good thing the mackerel are now around. Because big bass love them! Bob Bissett just showed up this morning with this whopper that he caught live lining mackerel around the mouth of the Merrimac area. Bob was fishing the low tide through the turn when this fish hit his mackerel.

Sure has been a foggy misty morning weeks worth of weather around here. But that hasn’t stopped people from heading out to the beach and even some in their boats. This weeks high tides made for some great boat fishing.  Boats have been catching stripers all the way up to

Well it was a great morning for me having this girl come in to weigh in her fish. She got up before the crack of dawn and headed out in her kayak because the tide was oh so right for Joppa Flats and landed this fish using the good old tube-n-worm. Maria’s husband and two