Eli Garrett from Corinth, Vermont was visiting the island to do some fishing on Sunday. Eli, his dad, and others went to Sandy Point down on the southern end of Plum Island. They fished the through the late afternoon low tide and the first few...
Well, for those of you that are telling us that there are big fish inside the Merrimac and that you can see them but can't get them to bite...
Courtneys first fish of the year was her biggest ever! She wrestled in this 40incher that she caught live lining a mackerel in the mouth of the Merrimac. She released it to fight another day. *photo sent June 9th by Brett Zimmerman Congrats Courtney! Show the boys...
Did you know that we have black sea bass & Tautog in our area? Island native Peter S. has been catching them for years. They love seaworms, and green crabs we have been told. He says to fish the rocky areas. Both the north and the south...
Plum Island Girl Amy Damelio went out in the boat Sunday morning and landed this 35" fish with the old tube-n-worm! Amy and her deckhand took the boat out into Joppa Flats for the morning tide. They fished the top of the tide and the start of...
So, Kay keeps telling everyone to come fish with your freshwater gear. That there's so many little fish around that you could have a good time catching the fish on the light gear. Some people have done that, taken Kay's advice over the years. I'm...
Apologies for being a bit behind in getting this post up. Life gets in the way sometimes. Anyways, will start with the "infamous" Ed Kelly showing us one of the biggest "keeper" sized stripers that we have seen so far. This one measured 43" and...
This weekend we weighed in our first keeper of the season. Jeff Stebbins from Enfield NH was down Sunday and caught this 18-4 pounder using clams. Jeff was fishing the 2nd part of the outgoing tide in the mouth of the Merrimac River during the...
Just an FYI, We were informed by the Parker River Wildlife Refuge that the gates in the morning would open at 5:00 am and they close at 8:20pm. This allows for you early guys to get onto parking lot 1 or make it down to...
Everyone has been asking about the mackerel. Well we finally have managed to get some in for you bait fishermen who like to fish chunk mackerel. And now that we have a few mackerel around, it would be a good time to start using some...