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Due to travel commitments the next four weekends, my striper fishing season effectively ended this last Saturday. But it was a good one! Between the three of us we boated over two dozen fish, kept a 28" and a 29" for the table and released the rest, including those in the pics below. On...

Been an up and down striper season in North Shore of Boston. With a few weekends of travel coming up and storms in the forecast, decided I was going to pull the boat on Sunday. Wanted to get out one last day, so Saturday was the day! Got to the dock with a solid 20-25 kts out of the north and...

The stripers, that is...to north shore of Boston. Had a buddy of mine from Baltimore who fishes the bay a lot come up for the weekend with his son. We fished Friday through Sunday. Kept a tally, and boated about 80 stripers, most Friday and Saturday. Sunday was slow. I read about these...

Stripers are in, macks are around still, despite bluefish showing up, and the fishing is great!

Hey guys, I lent my boat to a buddy last weekend and now my drain to the live well is pretty well clogged up. I think when he drained it a small squid (don't ask) that was in the well got down there. I have a 23DVCC with the set up where the live well is what the leaning post/seat posts are...

They're here and they're big. The area is loaded with mackeral and squid, so sometimes they are full and can be finicky. My son caught this 42" this weekend. We originally thought the mack had wrapped itself around a rock, because my son was not making much ground reeling in this fish. Then...

My 2000 model year 23DVCC had worn out cushions on the front of the console and the cockpit coamings. A quick call to Coastal Canvas fixed that! The best advice was simply shipping new "skins" for the cockpit coaming cushions to save costs and shipping. About three hours totall work taking...

My trusty OX-66 250HP finally had a career-ending injury toward the end of last season. Somehow, a piece of a piston head blew off and trashed one of the cylinders at full speed. I also found out that the lower unit had a slow leak in the lubricating reservoir and needs to be fixed/replaced...

Was off on vacation last week, staying around Marblehead and fishing with the kids. We were concerned that Irene would blow the fish offshore for a while, or at least scatter the macks. Turned out, neither happened! Attached is a pic of a nice 41 we caught the Monday after Irene blew through...

a couple of buddies and I participated in a local, fun fishing tournament last weekend. it started 4:00 PM Friday and ended 2:00PM Saturday. We fished for stripers, but also attracted blues. The key was getting mackerel for live bait. One of our crew is an oral surgeon who makes frozen chum...

Got this big girl mid-day on the 4th live lining with macks off Marblehead. Sent her back to have more striper babies and then kept a 30 incher later for the table. by the way, if you are going to release a fish, please hold it this way, and not hanging vertically by the lip. I see lots of...

I searched and didn't find what I was looking for, so here goes. I have long had a visceral hatred of hydraulic oil on boats. This probably comes from my sailing days with hydraulic backstays, boomvangs, and even a transmission that used to blow o-rings all the time. anything hydraulic...

Who you are going to meet in the oddest of places... After deciding that the weather didn't favor going skiing, my boys and I went to the local range to sight in a new hunting rifle. Late in the process, a guy sets up on the bench next to us wearing a Classic Parker hat. I comment on the hat...

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat…” So, we borrowed a buddy's Everglades 29 (I think). Not a Parker, but a whole lot faster! Went about 35 miles offshore last Thursday to Jeffries Ledge where the sea temperature break between warmer and cooler water was perfect to set up for shark fishing...

For those of you not from the northeast, we have been experiencing one of the best summers ever, both in terms of weather as well as fishing. This weekend was no different. We have had a west wind the past week which blew the top layer of water off shore, dropping the water temp from high 60's...

Went out to Stellwagen on Sunday (along with every other boat in the Boston metro area) to chase tuna around. Started at the NW corner at sunup. We could at one point count over 60 boats within view, although visibility was extraordinary. Lots of fish on the sonar, but no surface action...

A bunch of buddiesw and I always take the week off before Labor Day to devote a bunch of time to fishing with families. the striper and blues have been going crazy off Misery Island every afternoon and we are slamming them. However, yesterday planned to go off to Stelwagen to chase tuna...

My boys and I went down to Baltimore this weekend to fish with a buddy (tim-a on this board) on B-Faithful's old ride, the Maycraft. Nice boat. Well thought out and very comfy. We had a couple of minor mech/electrical issues, but for the most part, a great ride! Greg was called a couple of...

Toward the end of last season we were running wide open on our way back from Stelwagen and just before we got to the harbor the engine RPM suddenly dropped from 4500 to about 1000. So fast we were tossed forward. Didn't stall or anything. I put it into neutral and shut it off for about 15...

Sunday was our last shot on the bank for this year. Forecast was for the wind to lie down along with the seas. Saturday late afternoon certainly didn't seem like it, but Sunday was supposed to be great. Forecast was (surprisingly) correct. Left dock at 5:45, lines in water at 6:30, reel...