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Jared
Giles: 2
pictures of “Vineyard Mike” with a 16 pound little
tunny caught in November of 06 on the shoals off Harkers
island. Fishing on the 21’ Pursuit “Albie damned” Landed on
a nine weight rod.
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- Anthony Dossantos:
Caught 3 of them in the spring on a beach at Staten
Island, live lining bunker.
25lbs.
- Adam Zande:
Here is a 39 pound
cod
caught in the mouth of the Burnet river Bundaberg
- Mark Wahlgren: 2005
Bluefin Tuna Caught aboard the Samantha-Mae; a 29 ft Black-Fin out of Hilton's Dock Newburyport. The fish hit 28 Miles off shore of Newburyport in the Gulf of Maine on the Curl. 75
minutes of excitement and anticipation and hard work by the crew. The fish hit a live Herring at 220 feet . The Crew aboard the boat was Todd Hammond, Tearance and
Bob Sheehan; Bob's first Tuna trip! Great job by the team Thanks!
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- Lee Rice:
Here is a 10 lb
Striper caught on a Chartreuse and White 1/0 Clouser
while fishing the Sacramento, San Joaquin Delta in early
November, 2005.
- Lawrence Maier:
My first
bluefin tuna - thanks to Captain Todd Fedele (Outlaw
Charters) and Karl Hall for unwrapping several turns of line
from around a lobster pot line !
- J.C. Burke: This
99" 418
lb.
Mako was caught during the Hyannis Giant Tuna
Tournament. This is the biggest
Mako I have ever caught – J.C.
- Paul Higgins:
Just got back from Costa Rica. Full Moon fishing was slow
but got lucky
first day, first
fish
with a little more drag than the handline.
- David Decker:
caught
with Capt. Jeff Smith Ptown 2004, June after the blow on a
Buffy
- Joe Wojtan: These are
Carrie Stevens classic Freshwater Streamers that I have
tied. I'll be adding new ones to the list as I get
them done.
Canary
--
Grey
Ghost --
White
Angel --
Morning
Glory --
Nine-Eleven --
Olive Flatwing (more to come).
- Anthony Dossantos: 50
lb.
Sting
Ray: I caught it in about 6 feet of water with a chunk
of bunker, I thought I had a 60lb bass. It took me 15
minutes to get the ray up on shore. it was an awsome fight
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- Matthew Hagan: This
is a Blue
Fin Tuna caught on 10-25-03 at the BB Buoy. Caught
by Mike Bacon, Christian Giordini, Matt
Hagan and Chris aboard the Lady K. The fish
measured 120" and 870 lbs. Two plus hours to
catch and boat. The pictures were taken at night so
they are not quite clear but the size of the fish is
clear.
- Bill Hubbard: A 12 lb. Bluefish
from the Great Outer Beach, Cape Cod, Nov. 1., 2004
- Joel Meunier: My friend
Brian Daly with his personal best…a 42”
cow taken on 9/11/04 on a jig and a rubber eel off
Chatham aboard the Umero Nuno, assisted by Scott
Thibault, Gary Morin, and myself. This one went
back into the water unharmed.
- Jim Stone: This is a
picture my wife took on 9/6. It was taken at the mouth of
the Saco River at sunrise.
- Ron Cooper: Ron's 1st tuna
assisted by Dale Hubbard and Tom Sheehy aboard the Lady
Katherine - August 2004
- Josko Catipovic:
24" 4 lb 12 oz brown trout.
It hit a size 18 pheasant tail on 6x tippet on the
Deerfield
river and took a good 15 mins to
land.
- Ron Caulfield: Two
Stripers
in one hour with both personal best on a Fly Rod! The first
caught as pictured was 41" @ 26 pounds. The second
topped that at 42" and 30 pounds. Both fish were caught
on a foggy Saturday morning - 5/22/04- with very large
Deceivers. We were fishing sinking lines on 10-12wgt rods
over a rip when these appeared on top chasing Squid.
- Justin Delaney: This is
the very first striper
my friend Paul Bomer caught at Bishops and Clerk off
Hyannis
. It was an overcast, flat calm day, and three huge schools
were on the surface. It looked like they were just waiting
for a popper to land in there mouths. If the cast wasn’t
dead on they weren’t interested. About a dozen
cast’s later, Paul finally got the popper close enough to
spark one’s interest. We caught fish for the next hour
before they moved on. The shear numbers and size of all
these fish in one area was amazing.
- Al Launier: Bulefin
Tuna on a Fly Rod. This schoolie Bluefin
Tuna was caught off Rye, NH on a 9', 9 wt. fly rod in
September, 2002. Took 2 hrs. and weighed 48 lbs. Almost
spooled 3 times and well into the backing 8 other times.
Without my partner Oliver Radke (on the right) to help with
the boat to chase down the BFT and gaff it, this would
have been over shortly.
- Arthur Gasbarro:
August, 2003 on board the Endurance. It was a
fatty! My first experience getting taken to the rail.
The battle was just under an hour. Unforgettable!
- Eric Savetsky: These two photos are of a
250lb. Bigeye
taken at dusk in Atlantis Canyon trolling. The fish
was an absolute beast and took over 1 hour to land on a
Shimano Tiagra 50wlrs. Then angler, Tim Costello, said
the fish was nearly as tough as the 780lb. Bluefin he landed
with me a few years ago, also on standup gear. This Bigeye
would not come to the boat. We had him 40 feet from
the boat for at least 20 minutes, but couldn't muscle it
closer, until finally we got it within harpoon range and I
chucked the spear and luckily nailed it.
- Eric Savetsky: A 120lb. swordfish
caught by Art Gasbaro onboard Endurance while chunking at
arond 2:30am. Art was fishing hard on his watch, and
the swordfish came up into the chunkline and took the tuna
bait closest to the boat. Art heard a big splash and
the fight was on. The rod had a 40lb. test mono leader
meant for school tuna. We were using flats of herring
from the giant bluefin fishery, as we had been out at the BB
Buoy and the fishing was poor, so after one day and one
night out east we left the Great South Channel and headed
for the canyons. The trip paid off with our first
swordfish ever. What a treat !
- Eric Savetsky: Our humble webmaster, Jeff
Smith, onboard Endurance, bags a 330lb. Bluefin
east of Nantucket using a live bluefish on the
surface. Ken Catch took care of the end game with a
perfect harpoon shot. Incidentally, the fish was very
skinny and was trailing a long heavy mono longline leader
with weighter swivel with the hook imbedded in the roof of
its mouth.
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J.C. Burke: These three photos
are of the third fish we caught in North Carolina. You can see the
poon doing its job. That fish was 83` and dressed out at 261-lbs.
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Here are some shots of our first Carolina Blue
fin tuna. It was 79` long & dressed out at 227-lbs. You
can see in one of the photos that the fish
had been eating crabs. The guy on the rod was my mate
for this trip Bobby Fuller. He did an outstanding job !
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Josko Catipovic: Marco with a
nice 7
lb Brown in and with a bent
rod on the Salmon in October, 2003. Here he is with with
his guide Dave Barber with a nice 13 lb Steelhead
in March, 2003.
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Marco Catipovic: ....caught
this Coho
on my trip to the Salmon River this October.
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J.C. Burke: Caught this Wahoo on 11-4-03,
while on
a delivery to West Palm Beach, it hit a black & purple
islander jr. rigged with a ballyhoo. The owner was a very happy
man! Estimated weight was 80 lbs.
- Joel Meunier: It's one of
many nice Blues
I took with my good friend John Brawley in Wellfleet this past
August. This was the finest days of top-water fishing I
have ever experienced. Many fish in the 12-14 pound
range, and one that went 17pounds. If you look closely,
you might notice that the tail end of my popper has been chewed down
to the wood. It was the only lure out of 30 or so that
wasn’t bitten off.
- J.C. Burke: This Yellowfin
was caught on the chunk bite on 10-8-03 at around 2100 hrs at
Atlantis canyon estimated weight 85-lbs.It was nice to reel one in
for a change .
- Christopher Godino: This 207
bigeye was caught aboard the
SON FISH on 8/15/03 during
Falmouth Grandprix.
The Angler was Thomas Stratton 14
years of age fish with A Penn 50TW loaded with 60 momoi diamond
line. This fish inhaled one of Thomas's
Rigged Ballyhoos to take third place overall and largest Tuna of
the event
Thomas also was the first place junior
angler with the most total points.
He was assisted by His two brothers
Mike and James with Dad at the Helm also aboard was Capt. Chris
Godino - excellent team effort to put this one
in the Box after 1 hour and 45 minutes on the rod.
- J.C. Burke: This is now the
official state record Wahoo. It weighed in at 92-lbs. and it was
caught on a star rod with an original Penn 50 single speed reel
spooled with 60-lb Momi-Momi blue diamond line. The angler was Rich
Laurendeau & this fish was caught on the first day of the
Falmouth Grand Prix. It helped us take second place in the
tournament on Jack Laurendeau`s Cabo -45` Sweet Caroline.
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- The previous record was set just last year by Damon Saco
- John Amiro: Pictures
of a basking
shark taken in front of Mayflower Beach in Dennis on June 24th
of this year. This had a positive ID as a basking
shark by the Center for Costal Studies in P. town.
- Capt. Bill Brown:
506-lb.
thresher shark that was taken by Jon Wietecha aboard the
BILLFISH Captained by Bill Brown in the Oak Bluffs Monster Shark
Tournament. Shown in the photo are John Wietecha,
Capt. Bill Brown, Jon Wietecha, Pat Brown (mate). 2 hours 35
minutes of tugging.
- Bill Hubbard: Larry
Castagneto and Capt.Dave Steeves and fish
and BIG
bass taken East of Chatham on July 9th.
- Bill Hubbard: Capt.Dave
Steeves and I and Striper
from the Monomoy Flats taken on July 9th.
- J.C. Burke: This
is the fish
that came in 2nd in the O-B Monster Shark tourney, Fork length 7'-9'
weight 397-lbs.
- Chuck McGovern:
This is a photo of my friend Len LeCombe holding a 44" striper
he caught in late June at Scorton's Creek on an 8-wt. fly rod.
- Charles Crue: This striper
was one of many of the early season fish caught on May 15, 2003 on
the Merrimack River, Newburyport Massachusetts by Captain Charles
Crue of Channel Edge Charters.
- Pete Gray: Aerial
views of Dennis, Chatham Inlet, SandyNeck, Stage Harbour,
Barnstable Harbour and N. Monomoy from June, 2002.
- Capt. J.C. Burke:
Caught this Blackfin tuna
on
Thursday the 27 of March on the evening bite off of Pelican key
the Abacos on a 1/2 once white feather fished way back in clean
water. It might not look like it but it weighed in at just over 15
lbs. It is my biggest Blackfin to date & it tasted great!
- Captain Dave Steves:
Blue
fin tuna caught on 20 lb test with a Kicker
Jig 15. October, 2003
- Pete Gray:
I took the close up of a striper
pal at Chatham inlet just before I sent him back to get his big
sister - June 02. The aerial
was taken off the western common flatz of N Monomoy last Spring.
- Capt. J.C. Burke: This is a Wahoo
we caught in the Bahamas on 2-12-03 on the Hot Tuna Cabo`s
first 40 express & yes it is the red boat that is in all
the magazines.
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- Cal Hulstein: My
son, Chuck, caught this 41” striper
fishing with Dave Steeves in June of 2001.
We had a great day fishing with Sluggos and must have caught
at least 20 stripers in 4 hours.
This was the biggest one.
- Tom Tamanini:
My biggest King,
60 lbs. caught on a Fuchsia woolly worm, took about 25 min.
Used a G Loomis GLX 8 wt. SA sinking tip. Was on a fly-out
from Soldotna Alaska, July 23. Caught over fifty Salmon that
were over 20 lbs. The most fantastic trip I've ever had.
- Geoff Wilson:
This is a 43
inch striper caught and released on October 1, 2002 from the
Merrimack River in Newburyport MA. The fish was taken on a 2
inch EP Pinfish delivered with a 7/8 wt fly rod with a 12 lb.
tippet. I sure hope it does not take another 12 years to catch
another one like this on a fly rod.
- Peter McCarthy:
Pictures
of my recent trip to Cape Cod, where I was lucky enough to spend
Sunday 9/22 with Captain Steve Moore. We headed out of Barnstable
Marina about 7:00am looking for bluefin tuna. We had no trouble
locating pods of bluefin as they crashed the bait, it was truly an
amazing sight to see, as 50-150lb tuna were coming completely out of
the water chasing bait, it looked just like schools of albies, but
they were bluefin. The bigger fish (75 lbs.) was taken on a spinning
rod first. The second bluefin (65 lbs.) willingly inhaled a
5" skok's mushmouth black and purple over white, the
fight lasted approx. 1 1/2 hrs. and I did snap the 12wt GL3 boat
side, but at that point did not care. Capt. Steve has a truly
amazing bluefin tuna fishery up there in CC bay, everyone who
fly fishes the salt should hook a bluefin tuna at least once.
- Luke Retacco:
Caught & released this 19lb. (Boga
Grip) Striped
Bass on a #10 Rod using 10lb. tippet at “The Ruins” by
Gardiners Island
in eastern Long Island Sound. Fish
was caught on a sand eel pattern on
6/21/02
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- Brett Finger:
I am fortunate to live in
Bundaberg,Queensland.AUS. This place sees a good run of tuna each
year, Longtails, Yellowfin, Mack Tuna, Bineto. This is the first
Longtail
I had ever
caught. I have since then taken another 49.
- Luke Retacco:
Lianna Ford caught her first Jack
Crevalle in Palm Beach, FL in March 2002 using a #10 Loomis
Rod and 500 grain sinking line with a flashy deciever style fly.
- Steve Borg:
1997.....30 miles off Block Island....chunking butterfish.....1 hour
fight.....dressed out at 210 pounds.....fish tuna
ever caught....and one helluva nice Sally.
-
Neil
Cronin with a fly caught sailfish
over 145 pounds and caught out of Crocodile Bay Lodge in Costa
Rica In February of 2002.
- David & Robin Hallac: Robin
and Dave show off their early May catches. Their take includes this 17
lb False Albacore, 22
lb. Cobia, 26
lb. Jack Crevalle, and a 19
lb. Kingfish.
- Dennis Aquino:
These are a couple of Steelhead I caught fishing the Oswego river on
Eastern lake Ontario. This first fish is a 36
inch male, the second is a 38
inch female. Both fish were released to fight another day.
- Dave Motes:
This may look like a striper to you guys, but it's a rockfish--a big one
for the Chesapeake. I took it on a large Deceiver in late November,
during the late fall blitz of big fish in the middle bay near the mouth
of the Rapahannock. Just to the left of my left hand, and on the other
side of the fish, was a large scar from a seal or shark. The fish weighed about 22 pounds. We caught several other fish in the 15-20
pound range in the next two hours.
- Ben Badofsky:
This 8-year-old angler is seen here with his
first Pacific
Sailfish -- a 100-pounder . Ben caught this
beauty on his own, and it took 40 minutes to
land. He also shows off
his 28-pound Amberjack,
his 34-pound bull Dorado,
his 51-pound Roosterfish,
and his 8-pound Bonito,
all caught at the Tropic Star Lodge, Pinas Bay, Panama (March 2002).
- Neil Rice:
This big jack was caught last May just north of the inlet in Stuart Florida. I have come to understand that fish like this one will show up each Spring. Large schools will cruise the beaches and fish of 40# are hooked regularly. This fish was taken on a nine weight, floating line, on a white popper.
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