A wonderful way to start off a Monday. Two fine stripes on topwater using ultralight tackle. ahhhh.... unfortunately only enuff battery for one pic!

Mr. Noe, still pale from his last trip, and the capt. enjoy a double hook-up. Thanks to the good looking and lucking wives for booking the sunset charter.

The word was out from last week's flurry. Mr. Noe booked a gorgeous afternoon and landed a fine stripe after throwing at a big swirl. Apparently this striper had decided he too was fishing, but for captains. The fiesty captainerman embedded the barb of the capt. own treble hook securely in the index finger, sending a message that he'd been catching too many of its fellows. Unfortunately the capt. was too busy contimplating his fate with the pliers to take a photo for evidence.

Still excited from yesterday evenings charter, Todd booked another and sure enff same spot and better results. Fish seemed to be everywhere, we landed 3 stripers and 1 spot, I like these ratios better. Hope all of 2005 goes this way.

Well the New Year is upon us with 70 degrees of pleasure. The weather apparently triggered the bite, schools of bait all over the creek and Mr. Todd and I managed to nabb 4 spots and 1 stripe. Not a bad way to start off the year.

Well after reading that the stripers are finally moving again the lovely wife and I headed out for a sunset cruise. Of course I had to make a few casts and a couple more tries with the fly rod, unsuccessfully I might add. Just as we passed the no wake zone heading in to port, we saw a big school bustin up some shad on the top, with Capt. Michelle at the helm I ran to bow and on the 1st cast nabbed this striper. While I fumbled to release him (and snap a pic of course) Michelle went to the bow and threw at the school and immediately her dragged was screaming, this was her 1st stripe and she apparently didnt know what to expect as it almost pulled her in, tho I believe she mighta let go at some point.

Hey folks sorry for the missing images, apparently the capt. has exceeded a bandwidth quota on the free host. Guess the capt. will have to choke up some dough and pay the man to have bandwidth increased. That's means pricing will go up, charters are still free (with a catch fish guarantee or your next charter is free ;-p) but now you will be charged for the photographic/video evidence.

The Lake Lanier trip to GA started off as catching but soon turned back to fishing, however the non-believers now believe. Nice catch for Mr. Noe & Mr. Conner, their first landlocked stripers. The capt. wasn't as lucky but did catch one worthy enff for dinner.

Footage from a recent trip to Lake Lanier in GA:

Mr Conner becomes a believer:

Mr Chris Noe earns his stripes:

Fishingstories tv show?? That would be nice may need some work on the commentary, editing and budget. Take a look here and give it a minute to load.

This past weekend the capt. booked a charter in Tampa Bay to see what all the excitement of FL fishing was about. The charter proved successful as Capt. Chris put us on a some Snook and Jack Crevalle. The Snook are like large mouth bass on steriods, these fish make your drag scream and love to jump. As if our drags hadn't had enough we stumbled on a huge school of Jacks and we nailed em on topwater. They put up one helluva fight. What a great way to kick off the wedding of Aj and Michelle, congrats!!

Well summer has come to a close and we kick off this striper season with a trip to Montauk, located at the tip of Long Island, NY with my favorite (and only) cousins, Mr. Dino & Mr. Mikey. This trip prooved to be striperful, we landed 10 of them all 12+lbs. with a few 20+. Wish LKN was as automatic as Montauk. The tactic was using live porgies, which we caught 1st. In between the stripers we caught dozens of bluefish, aka devil fish, b/c they usually tore up your rig and ate half your bait.

Fishing in the summer on LKN is rare, at least it is for this capt. Here's a couple of pics of 30SOMETHIN with her bimini up cruisin at about 2500 rpm. These photos were taken by Capt. Pedro

Alright Capt. Dad lands a bonified doormat. This fluke, or summer flounder for the southern crowd, won pops a nice chunk of change from the daily pool, and is rumored it missed the monthly prize only by a few oz. Thanks for the pic, its obvious this site needs a capt. who actually catches fish.

And one for the photographer. Just kidding Mr. Todd! He masterfully worked a roadrunner thru the docks and caught this largemouth. Sure beats catching catfish eh?!!