Member Reports
On The Beach by Joe Filice
I fished the Spray Beach area on Saturday 5/21. Great deep water and nothing but dogfish. First three stole my bait but #4 paid the price. Bled and gutted, I made smooth dogfish nuggets. Not bad! On Sunday, I went…
Poor Start But a Great Finish by Bob Dodds
Our opening week trip for sea bass trip didn’t start too well. I was fishing with my son Shawn, neighbor Kyle and his boss Tony. One way to get a day off, is to ask your boss to come. As…
Better Results Than Opening Day by Ed Valitutto
Bob Dodds invited me to join a Brett Taylor Fluke charter for Friday May 6th. However, due to incessant NE winds, we rescheduled for Wednesday May 11th for 4:30 to 8:30 PM. Brett picked up Bob, me and a third…
Night Striper Fishing by Bob Dodds
My cousin Joe & I booked Capt. Brett Taylor for Wednesday night 4/27 for a 7-10 PM charter for bay stripers. It was cold with light winds so we fished a number of spots on the West side of the…
Opening Day Bust by Ed Valitutto
Dave Spendiff joined me on opening day of the 2022 fluke season. We started at 1:00 in Double Creek to catch the start of the outgoing tide. The only bite was a blowfish taking a chunk out of my Gulp…
Unusual Catch for Me by Pat Presutto
A beautiful day was called for so I rode the ocean front beaches scouting for new holes and cuts. Then I went to Graveling Point to meet some fishing comrades after getting some bloodworms from Ron at West Creek. Walking…
The White Perch Have Come Home by Dave Spendiff
After returning home from our daughter’s home on Friday, April 8th, where my wife and I had been staying for two weeks while our heating and hot water system was being repaired, I did the two most important things; first…
Grouper Fishing in Florida by Jeff Barnhart
This year, I brought my boat down to our place in Punta Gorda on Florida’s West coast to do some gulf fishing. Unfortunately, keeper grouper require traveling out into the gulf to get legal sized fish and we went 40…
Speckled Trout Limit in Cape Coral, FL by Ed Valitutto
I went out for a day of back bay fishing down in FL on Dragon Fly Charters. I had a blast! We started off cast netting for Pilchards and my guide made throwing a 20′ diameter net look like child’s…
My First Redfish by Ed Valitutto
As most of you know, my wife Pat and I are spending January through March in Cape Coral, Florida. Fishing has been a little slow due to the “cold Florida weather”. However, things are warming up and so is the…
