When things come together......

You have days like today.....

EPIC

Described our fishing today. After over a week of handing off my trips to another charter cap, or canceling, I finally got the Carla Noelle wet today fishing with Shawn Rayder and company. We did a combo bass/tuna trip....Day started kinda slow in pea soup fog....We put a few keepers on soft plastics in the boat and kept moving on.....Started doing good on drifts but wanted to make the long run to the day before's action where we had miles of bass and a few tuna. I'm glad we made the run...We boated 40 or so keeper bass all on light tackle and fly and had 5 tuna hookups but call of them came unbuttoned.....Just insane!!....

She's ready!

Fish Tat

This is the start of something I have planned for my right arm..........A school of herring...There will be a fly or two incorporated into the arm later on as well as some other nautical stuff!

First trip of the season.......

Fished with Paulie and Josh aboard Bruce Sweets 35' Henriques out of Gloucester on Saturday....We ventured up friday afternoon and stopped in Plymouth to check out the work fastech was doing on my boat...Excellent!! Should have it back this coming week. When we got to Gloucester we met Bruce, checked in then did some site seeing. It was getting towards cocktail hour so we had dinner then returned to the boat to have a few cocktails before retreating to the room at Cape Ann that evening...Up at 4, off the docks by 5 we steamed around 10 pound island to the grounds. We loaded up on cod and haddock and just had a great time. Captain Bruce Sweet knows his groundfish game!!....

Visions of Summer.....

What's new

We are well into spring FINALLY. It was in the 70's the other day, so the cover came off the boat and the top was stripped of all the hardware and wiring and is now ready to head to Fastech middle of next week. I'm pretty excited about the new top and it will give us a place to hide on those downpours that seemed to be all to frequent last June! Can't really complain because damned the fishing was HOT!

Im pondering the new gear list this year. Last year the addition of 4 STELLAS was a huge investment. The reels held up great on the large tuna. Anything else that hooked a fish I had my doubts about. I am looking at possibly getting a few of the new PENN TORQUE spinners as designated jigging reels on the short standup spinners....They will be used to exclusively toss RONZ and the like. Maybe a couple of FinNor Marquesas as well....All I know is I am expecting the bluefin to be around the 200lb mark this season. There is NO room for marginal or so-so tackle in this fishery....These fish can be whipped on light tackle and we have been doing it with awesome results....

Alot of new tackle has come out the last year for these fish and were anxious to try it out.

I expect to be fishing full time by May 15-20. In the interim, I am getting ready to celebrate the half century mark next week. That's right folks....Good ol Jeffie is turning 50!!..Holy crapola!!!...Never thought I would live to see the day. To tell you the truth, I am feeling pretty damned good. To date, i have lost 32lbs this winter and have worked out with the weights really hard, changed my diet and all that other stuff your supposed to do..

If you haven't got your dates in for this summer, think about doing so....

Looking forward to catching up with all of you this summer OTW!!