Captain Heather

Heather (my wife for those of you who don't know) was planning to join me for a fishing trip tonight since last week. Over the weekend she wasn't feeling well, and we decided instead to do the dinner and movie deal. Fortunately, she was feeling better today, and the weather was just too nice not to fish! After a quick stop for snacks and bait, we were off! I asked her to drive the boat away from the dock since I still had some gear to ready, little did I know she wasn't planning on giving up the drivers seat! Even when we got to where we were going to start our troll, she wanted to drive and fish...fine by me! Before too long she had found our first fish...a nice bluefish who is destined for the smoker!

Watch out for those teeth!

Not too long after that she had another hit, but something went wrong as they tend to do from time to time and the fish got off.  Not before I could get an action shot though

Heather doing battle

And again, it wasn't long before she was hooked up again......this time with her personal best striper, and it wasn't getting away!

All smiles!

You may have noticed Heather has been doing all the catching so far. Its not that I wasn't fishing...I just got severely one upped! I think I only landed one fish all night....if she gives up being a nurse I think she has a career in fishing!!

So, the fish are both here, and hungry...FINALLY! Seems as though they took forever this year! My saltwater prices for the season are the same as last year. 4 hour trip, all gear and bait provided, one angler $200, 2 anglers $250. Remember, you DO NOT need a saltwater license to fish on my boat as I am a registered charter vessel!! 

Give me a call or send an email to book your trip!

Captbille@gmail.com

860.918.2338

Thanks! Captain Bill

Good thing for Smallies!

Well the striper game continues to be hit or miss. I'll be on the salt tuesday...if not sooner. Fingers crossed! Thankfully, the smallmouth bite has been awesome! Last week I landed my best of the season so far, a 19.5" 4lb beast!

Picture perfect bronzeback!

This week I repeated the length....but with considerable less weight. This spawned out 19.5" fish probably didn't weigh more than 2.5 pounds!

Skin and Bones!!

One other nice shot from along the way.....most of them fell to small crankbaits, but tube jigs produced a few as well. 

After one of those smallmouths made its way into the boat, it gave me a little payback for sticking a hook in him. I took the photo after I pushed the hook through the rest of the way, as it was buried past the barb. It hurt too much with the barb in me to reach for the camera, but once through it wasn't so bad....

ouch!

Other than that I have been trout fishing a couple of times. One time was in preparation to take out a client, and a downpour earlier that day had brought the river right up to the bank and turned it mud brown....far from ideal conditions for a beginner! Earlier in the week I found plenty of eager trout though!

This one didn't want to pose!

A nice bow comes to hand!

The weather looks great this week! Lets go fishing!!!

Captain Bill

Captbille@gmail.com

860.918.2338