WaterDog Guide Service

I had a great time with Steve and porter today – it started off cold, windy and slow. It took us a while but once the wind started to lay down and we started to get bit.

Weekend is gonna be slick!

Clear water, lots of bait and excellent water temps…and few if any albies.

What gives?

Weather was great and John struck again boating a good fish but we’re still going to trout fish some tomorrow!

.…and as tough as it’s been, that’s saying something.

Calm and quite dead today until a few fish started showing late in the afternoon. Hit a couple bites and john got his.

Good trout bite today in the jetties and surf – may try that tomorrow if the Albies don’t show.

…for convincing me to take y’all out.

Me :It’s pouring rain, there’s a big ground swell and the wind is going to start howling in the next several hours”

Brant: “Sounds like a great day for an adventure lets go!”

But he was right – we got on a pretty decent trout bite first thing catching several really nice specks. Then we beat our way to the cape to find a great albacore bite. Lots of decent pods of fish up and down for several hours. They were much more willing to eat than days prior, but it was hard to get the baits to them…being that we had to time our casts to the swell. We didn’t catch many, but we got a lot of bites and had tons of bites.

When the wind swung around and started blowing 25, gusting to 30 out of the northwest we called it a day.

I may have been right about the weather, but Brant was right about the fishing and adventure.

Always a great time with you boys!

Today Dale and I solved all the worlds fisheries problems. While we were having a great time, we found some good up and down pods of albies the fish were still tough. Got 4 or 5 eats and landed our fish.

Disappointed the fish didn’t show on such a nice day as Dale is an excellent fly caster. That’s basically a week straight of exceptionally skilled anglers who would really be able to appreciate good days.

The trend continues – lots of Albies around and lots of shots…but very, very tough. We are literally on fish all day, but they are small pods chasing small spearing and silversides. It takes a lot to get a shot but if you get the fly in there, you’ll get bit.

The real pleasure was the awesome group of experienced anglers we had down from Mass. We had a ton of fun together. It’s also nice to work with a couple of other great guides.

Today my A-Team brought its A game and we had little to show for it. Totally dead until 9am when the spearing Albies showed enforce and proceeded to baffle us.

We got several bites and landed a fish…and were literally in fish all day long. Tony and Perry are great anglers and worked really hard for me – we didn’t catch much but we had a ton of fun trying!

North 20 this morning brought the fish back to the beach. Scattered pods all morning and afternoon but the PM fish were a bit harder – either doing the odd ‘rocketman’ skying or eating little baits. Best action was clearly in the morning.

Don and John performed well for me and were able to snag a few – we had a great time however and I look forward to the rest of the week with their group!

Sat – Not much too it. Just a few scattered pods on the beach and aggravating sippers off the beach. Weirder weather. Got a few shots and the pending gail drove us in early.

Fri…it was a different story. Blowing NE20 but very fishable, we were one of only 4 or so boats on the water…and we were in fish all day. Big time fun stuff – scattered pods busting large silversides. Had to wait them out to get shots, but when we did they ate…and they were all big. We landed fish from 12 to 15lbs and I leadered one that would have gone 18+ before he parted ways with the leader. Most important? We got Harry his first Albie on the fly!

John – always great to have you here.

Thurs – pretty windy and John and Harry weren’t so lucky – a few trout was all she wrote.

Wed – I had a great time with Seth and Ciera. Slick calm from dawn to 11am and then SW15+ for the remainder. Our day had potential to be a great one, but we just couldn’t get it all together. Both Ciera and Seth are great anglers, but despite 8 great top water strikes…we just couldn’t stay tight. Ended up finishing the day with a decent trout bite landing several nice 2lb fish.