Fishing reports from Joe Filice.

Posted on April 8, 2013 by VHFC

Have been busy and neglected to file reports, so I combined three below.  April 8th and 9th,2013. Bonita Springs, FL

Had two terrific fishing days. Yesterday we had two gag grouper and got broke off by another six. In addition we had Spanish mackerel hamming the shrimp and kept five for dinner. Grouper is closed so they went back in, including this one. Today we brought back Spanish mackerel for dinner again.

April 25, 2013.

Didn’t feel like sitting around on a warm night. So I headed out to the unani creek. In and hour and a half I caught 18 trout. Kept four, including a big brown. All but two rainbow caught on my old faithful kastmaster lure.
April 28, 2013

On the beach at 7:30 this morning. Beautiful day. Mid 50’s and sunny. Barefoot on the surf and caught a short throwback by clam and a 30”, 8.5 lb dinner fish on bunker. I love this time of year on LBI.

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Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

There’s something fishy about beer these days. Fish Tail Ale is popular as ever, and New Jersey’s Flying Fish Brewery is one of the state’s largest specialty breweries. There’s also Washington’s Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale, Florida’s Land Shark beer, Delaware’s Dogfish Head beer, and two versions of Stingray beer—a lighter version from the Cayman Islands and a dark beer from Canada.

The triangle fly is probably the most unusual of saltwater flies. It’s one of the few, if not only, flies tied to a treble hook. It’s also barely a fly at all, because hardly any material is used. It is complete after tying the two straw pearl twinkle flashes and the tiny tuft of natural squirrel, leaving an entire hook fully exposed. Incredibly this barebacked treble fly is a knockout when it comes to sea trout.