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FOLLOW THE BAIT FOR NEARSHORE WAHOO

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his is the time of year when water temperatures allow pelagics like wahoo, dolphin and tuna to show up right on the beach… so to speak. I live in North Carolina, and every year there are stud wahoo caught “right on the beach.” Here “right on the beach” is the 20to 25-mile area off the beach.

For some folks in Florida, “right on the beach” might be that first sea buoy right out of the inlet.

In late summer, we have a monolithic water temperature from the Gulf Stream to the beach in the mid 80s. That allows wahoo to follow huge schools of bait wherever they go. This is what we call the beginning of the end… the end of summer. The cigar minnows and sardines come nearshore, and the wahoo follow them as far in as they are comfortable with the water depth, which is usually not much less than 75 or 80 feet. They will eat whatever they want, including live menhaden or cigs pulled around by king mackerel fishermen.

We call it the beginning to the end of summer, but it’s also the beginning of a wonderful time of year for me… fall and winter. The cigs and sardines come in. The pelagics follow them for a month or so

until the water starts to cool in mid September. Then the magic happens.

When cooling water runs off the wahoo, the gags show up in numbers.

It’s all a very beautiful dance. Let’s enjoy every step along the way.

I keep talking about the nearshore activity of the cigs and sardines, but the offshore schools are also getting bigger now, and this draws the attention of everything from pelagics to bottom fish. All the grouper and big snappers shadow these schools wherever they go. This is why it’s so important to “find the bait.” Cigs and sardines are not the only thing I’m looking for offshore. I like to find a big stack of beeliners. Wherever you find a big stack of beeliners, you can bet your bottom dollar there are grouper and big snapper directly under them and wahoo and kings around them.

August is also a month to consider spending the night offshore. Yes, there are late afternoon thunderstorms that pop up, but overall weather patterns are consistent, and you can fish for days, back to back. Leave in the early afternoon, get where you are going and get acclimated to the setting sun. Anchor up on a pretty piece of bottom and bait, and turn on the lights.

This is a “National Geographic moment.” The minnows and squid come to the light, so you can easily load up the livewell before the daylight bite starts.

I will close with this: We lost a fishing pioneer and legend last month with Mark Sosin’s passing. Our thoughts, prayers and celebrations go out to his family.

See more from Tim Barefoot at barefootcatsandtackle.com.

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upiter, Fla. is a worldrenowned fishery. In the summertime it’s known for hot inshore snook. Offshore produces an epic sailfish, kingfish, tuna and pelagic bite. There are always fish willing to eat.

One of my favorite bites is for springtime blackfin tuna.

From March through May, jumbo blackfins migrate down the east coast of Florida. It is not uncommon to catch them anywhere from 20 to 35 pounds. From their deliciousness on the table to their long powerful runs, blackfin tuna are one of my favorite offshore fish to target. They are sure to send you to the tackle shop to get your reels serviced after a productive day of fishing.

Blackfin tuna are excellent hunters. Often, they work together to ambush schools of baitfish. They are equipped with massive eyeballs, which are designed for pitch black and low-light conditions. They spend a majority of their time down deep feeding on squid. However, at dawn and dusk, the tunas move higher in the water column to feed near the surface. Be on the lookout for frigates and disturbance on the water’s surface. It’s not uncommon to see them exploding and flying out of the water on a bait ball. I keep an easily accessible casting rod, with a plug or weighted feather jig tied on, for this scenario or in case a school of mahi shows up.

Blackfin tuna will often hold to areas with bottom topography like humps, reefs and wrecks. You can find success drifting over areas like these with live bait. Live sardines, pilchards, threadfins and gogs will all work. I prefer live sardines. For me, they have been the most productive bait.

Chumming is important to bring blackfins higher in the water column. Chunk up pilchards and throw a few pieces out at the bow, mid and stern every couple of minutes. The best chum is live chum. Small- to medium-sized pilchards are your best bet.

I throat-hook a sardine and send it out on a free line. The bait will swim down on its own, and you should keep some tension on it. I also drop a live bait on a down rod and wait for the bite as I drift along.

Blackfins’ excellent eyesight means they can be leader shy, so I often run a 40- to 50-pound fluorocarbon leader, but will go as light as 30 pounds. A triplehook rig for freelining or a single 4/0 or 5/0 circle hook depending

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You can also catch them kite fishing, trolling feathers/spoons, with ballyhoo rigs, cedar plugs, planer fishing, vertical jigging and slow-pitch.

Second to live bait, slow-pitch jigging is a fun and effective way to catch tunas when the hot mid-day sun pushes them down deep. My go to jig is a Jyg Pro 240 Gram strike jig. I like to jig anywhere from 200 to 350 feet. Send it down to the bottom over active areas and work your rod up high and let the jig flutter back down. You can change the pace and tempo of your jigging until you find what works. Don’t be surprised to get hit as you are burning the jig back to the surface.

I hope these tuna tips bring you success and dinner to share with your close friends and family. Keep on fishing!

Check out Ryan Izquierdo’s adventures on his YouTube channel: Ryan Iz Fishing.

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Who cares?

The diver, Braden Sherron, a student at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, can rest assured that his monster cubera is one of the largest of its species ever caught by any method. It will likely be the new International Underwater Spearfishing Association’s world record. If approved, it will replace a 122.4-pound fish shot in 2006 off the coast of Brazil.

According to a Field & Stream story on the catch, Sherron first encountered the giant snapper while freediving a Gulf of Mexico oil rig about 60 miles out of Port Aransas, Texas. He did not take his shot at the time because he was not equipped to handle such a large fish. A week later, on June 3, he returned to the rig with heavier gear, dove to about 55 feet and put a dart into the fish. Luckily, the cubera wrapped the trailing line up in the oil rig, which kept the fish from diving. While the fish fought itself, Sherron returned to the surface to wait 10 minutes before diving down to secure

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his prize with two more shots.

When Sherron brought his fish back to the scales at Fisherman’s Wharf in Port Aransas, it began making the rounds on social media almost immediately. It truly is an enormous fish, which outweighs the existing IGFA record—a 2007 Louisiana fish that weighed 124 pounds, 12 ounces—by more than 10 pounds. Sherron’s fish also outweighs the Texas state rod-and-reel record of 131 pounds. The only larger cubera snapper research was able to turn up was a 151-pound monster that’s listed as an “other methods” catch by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. That fish, caught by handline out of Port Mansfiled in 1984, weighed 151 pounds.

The thing is, none of these other anglers were holding their breath when they caught their fish.

Sherron’s catch is absolutely one for the record books.

“I would equate it to shooting a 200-plusinch whitetail deer on public land,” he told Field & Stream. “It’s one of those things that happens once in a lifetime, and you can’t believe it when it does.”

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The Squid Moon

By Captain John Curry

We all know how the full moon has an effect on tidal influences and game fish movements. I like to focus more on how the moon affects bait fish movements and behaviors. One example of this happens each summer during the July and August full moon period. From the South Shore of Boston to Race Point at the tip of Cape Cod we have a unique opportunity to target stripers if you know what you are looking for. For most of us who fish during the day the full moon can make fishing a challenge to say the least.

However, if the moon is bright and the tides align perfectly it can be one of the best times to be on the water as the sun comes up.

What you need to look for is simple; a full moon, incoming higher than normal tides (associated with the moon phase) at night and a dropping tide right as the sun comes up. Many of the harbors on the north side have deep channels with marsh grass backwater areas. These areas hold Silver Sides this time of year. Silver Sides are the preferred bait for small Squid that ride the tide in at night and feed on these smaller bait fish. As the tide turns in the morning these Squid ride it out as the stronger than normal tides flush them to waiting Stripers ready to put on the feed.

Stripers, in my opinion, prefer Squid over all other bait. They go crazy on them and I have noticed that fish actually fight harder during these feeds

than normally. These Squid aren’t big, maybe 4-5” max in size so match your baits accordingly. I like to use 6” Hogy Lures rigged weedless in amber and pink colors. Other baits that work well are the Hurley Lures Squider cut down to 5” also in pink and white and the 5” Skid Stik top water lure in Shrimp color is a good choice.

These fish aren’t the big 2030 pounders that are feeding on Sea herring and Mackerel on the backside this time of year so ditch the treble hooks and replace with a single rear hoof on any top water hard baits. I target

all sizes of fish of course, but for my light tackle spin and fly guys these 25-35” fish are an absolute blast.

If you’re a troller by trade, borrow a friend's spinning rod as the dropping tide will fill your spread with weeds and debris floating out with the tide.

As I write this, the July full moon period is over.

Check your moon phase calendar, grab a map and a tide chart as the August moon will hopefully bring the same conditions.

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Anglers will soon be able to drop a line from the back dock of the exclusive St. Regis – or with a good cast – from a balcony of the 22-floor glass tower being constructed on Boston Harbor. The building is currently the last to go up on the waterfront as the Seaport has been transformed from an industrial neighborhood to a high-end enclave.

developer John Cronin. St. Regis is set to be one of the most exclusive properties to ever be built in Boston, where prices for a four bedroom penthouse costing $15 million and dropping to $2 million for a one bedroom unit. The 62 floor plans, most of which include views of the harbor, include marble countertops, custom Italian cabinetry, and so much more.

The 250-foot building, meant to resemble a sail unfurling in the wind, was first sketched out on a cocktail napkin by architect Howard Elkus during a dinner with premier

The 114-unit building, which is St. Regis’s first residential only establishment, is set to open its doors this fall with amenities typically reserved for luxury hotel guests. Resi-

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St. Regis is being constructed on a parcel of land that was once home to Whiskey Priest and Atlantic Beer Garden. Former Mayor Tom Menino set in motion the change to the Seaport when he designated the area the“Innovation District” and brought in billions in city, state, and federal investment to transform.

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By Jared Wood

The eighth month is the beginning of what lies ahead. Juvenile bait is going to start making its way out onto the beach front from back in the estuaries and rivers. They will be joining up in large numbers to prepare for their migrations offshore and southward.

The far reaches of the stripers range is where this first takes place. Maine and New Hampshire surfcasters see bait congregating in great numbers to prepare to run the gauntlet of hungry bass waiting for them.

bush points with access to deeper and colder water. Two hours into the incoming tide we have figured out the bass start to come into the boulders. By fishing the highways the bass use to come in and ambush prey we have figured out the pattern. The more time we have spent there we have gathered that the fishing is really good for the next couple hours of the tide. When the tide slacks out the fish scatter all over the place to set up in a new location to ambush bait being drawn out with the changing tide or to digest their meal. It has been many sleepless nights to get to this point.

water for a quick picture. For every minute you fight the fish give it that much time to recover by facing her in the current to revive the bass.

Stripers will let you know when they are ready to go. They will raise their dorsal fin, start biting down on your thumb, and they will try to shake loose. Do the best you can to send them back so someone else can catch them in the future.

This time of year I tend to throw larger profile plugs at night. A classic danny tends to be my first plug out of the bag. Crawling it thru the boulders working with the current sweeping it to where I believe a bass lay in ambush. If I get no takers on the danny I switch over to a slow sinking needlefish. My plug bag is rounded out with a pair of glide baits, a darter, paddle tail soft plastics on a jig head, and a fast sinking needle to get down into the deeper water just past the boulders. Using the plugs I bring with me allows me to cover all levels of the water column. Boulder fields have plenty of hang ups to get stuck on so counting in your head during your retrieve will allow you to figure out when to increase the speed of your retrieve to get over them and where you can slow down your retrieve.

The water close to shore this time of year is above the stripers' comfort zone during the day. So locating the deeper colder water with ambush points is a good place to start your efforts. Fishing at night will increase your odds of hooking up.

The second half of the month is the kick off to the fall run in the northern end of the stripers range. The fish begin to set up adjacent to river mouths and harbors waiting for the young of the year bait head out to open water. When the peanut bunker starts to spill out in vast numbers the bass will be there waiting. Peanut bunker fueled blitzes are intense and matching their size this time of year can be difficult when they are an inch or two long. Small soft plastics like the Al Gags Whip it Fish are a perfect match. They are a close match to get you in the game. Juvenile herring are another bait that begins to make an appearance towards the end of this month dropping back after spending the summer growing in freshwater.

They will tend to hang around the inside the river mouths for a while before heading out to sea. When the bass are on herring fry you can see the bass gulping down mouthfuls on the surface. A well placed soft plastic on the surface will get you tight.

The adult bunkers are still here as well and give themselves away when they are under assault from below flipping on the surface and jumping out of the water. A well placed spook or pencil popper on the end of the school acts like a fleeing bunker which usually leads to your plug getting inhaled.

Take your time when releasing a fish. The water is really warm and puts stress on the fish during the fight. Keep bass in the water so that they can get the oxygen they need We have figured out that the month to recover. They just fought really of August is our best month for big hard and needed the time to recovbass here. The spot has plenty of am- er before you took them out of the

When the turn up sand eels bring thin metals, Ronz’s (bouncing them off the bottom to create a puff of sand like a sand eel trying to evade predation), and bucktails during the day and needlefish and soft plastics after dark. The sand eels tend to take up residence so the fishing can last a few

The first half of August the stripers are still holding onto their summer patterns. They have windows that feed during and when not feeding they are staging waiting to feed again. The patterns that you have figured out from fishing the previous month and years past have aided in your pursuit. By figuring out the patterns you can spend your time actively fishing and not guessing.

Putting a plan together using wind, current, weather, tide, and bait place you in the best position to catch that cow you have been after.

There is a boulder field my fishing partner and I have named the cow pasture. This specific spot has large boulders lined all along the shore line and drops off into 20 feet of water. The bait year after has been the same pogies, lobsters, and mackerel.

When wading out into this spot you can look down and see lobsters in every nook and cranny. After 10 years of fishing this spot we have a pretty good handle on where the bass like to stage and where they come in to feed.

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days or a few weeks. Mackerel are here and there but when they find the sand eels they feed on the sand eels and intern the bass to target them. I had gone out one night with the fly rod knowing the sand eels were in abundance. Low and behold I started catching mackerel on my sand eel fly. I grabbed my surf rod and put on a mackerel colored magic swimmer and bass to twenty pounds mixed in with the schoolies I was getting on the fly. Large pencils and swimming plugs (magic swimmers, pike, bombers) work well when the mackerel are in thick.

Pay attention to the weather this month. A tropical storm or offshore hurricane can really put the pressure on the bass to feed. These weather systems tend to move bait around so if you have a good idea where the bass are staging leading up to the weather, fish it hard. When the hurricanes and tropical storms start churning up the coast, be safe and trust your gut. If you feel that you are pushing yourself out of your comfort zone in the surf, find a safer spot to fish or move to a protected area that keeps you out of the storm surge. The big surf and white water can make the fishing lights out but it is not worth your safety.

Staying in tune with what the bait is doing will help you know where to target bass and what plugs to pack with you. Drive the coastline, walk the beach, or take a bike ride and find what the bait has the bass doing. When the conditions for lights out fishing happen do not miss your shot. Burn a vacation day or two and get in on the action.

Jared Wood is a surfcaster who fishes from Maine to Connecticut. Targeti Striped Bass, Bluefish, Albies, and Bonito in the surf. He can be found on Instagram as surfcaste`r_jared. For any questions he can bereached at jaredwood25@gmail.com.

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inding new spots to fish has been one of the biggest issues facing us since… well, since fishing started. For years inshore fishermen have used satellite views to find points with cuts, oyster bars and other features that can be seen from above in the shallows. The good news is offshore anglers can now take advantage of similar imagery to make finding new spots feel like you’ve got it made in the shade.

High-definition relief shading like that in the new Garmin Navionics Vision+ package gives anglers insight into spots they would have never known about unless they just stumbled across them. There are countless examples of offshore spots where I’ve marked and caught fish without knowing that just a few hundred feet away were even better looking spots.

It’s hard to know every ridge or well-defined bottom feature, so getting a view of what is down there can be extremely beneficial. Of course, not all

spots that look good hold fish, but it’s a start.

Once you find something of interest, spot lock trolling motors make it easy to move and drop baits to see if anyone is home. For larger areas, such as long ridges, sometimes trolling makes a bit more sense to cover more ground.

When chasing bottom fish such as grouper, there are a few techniques that work well. Downriggers and planers with jig heads and large paddletail baits work well, but I find deep diving plugs to be even better. There are a host of deep divers out now that provide an accurate depth to which they will dive.

The Nomad DTX Minnow is one of my favorites. It is deadly on grouper and does double duty with its high-speed capability for chasing pelagic species as well. I also love the fact that they come rigged with single hooks versus treble hooks. The key is to just graze the sandy bottom next to the rocks to get the groupers’ attention. They have keen sight and will charge out quickly to grab a meal, and the bonus is you start with them already away from the rocks.

Just a few hundred feet away The great thing about using highfrom where the author has definition relief shading and trolling marked and caught grouper for grouper is you might have one is a massive ledge that holds even more fish. spot that quickly turns into four or five locations to drop baits in a relatively small area. Sometimes the spots are within a few hundred feet and sometimes farther. Regardless, this technology is a game-changer, and by covering new ground quickly it can make finding new productive spots much easier.

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My 11-year-old son and I recently spent a couple days on the headwaters of North Carolina’s Nantahala River at a place called Standing Indian. Standing Indian Mountain tops out at close to 5,500 feet, and its slopes feed the river with plenty of cold water from numerous headwater branches. This area, upstream of the U.S. Forest Service’s Standing Indian Campground, is off of U.S. 64 west of Franklin, N.C. The Nantahala at Standing Indian bears little resemblance to the big whitewater river it becomes downstream near Bryson City. In its headwaters, there are about six miles of public water that might be 20 feet across in the wide spots. It’s a great little stream for folks who enjoy slinging dry flies on a four-weight fly rod for pretty little rainbow and brown trout.

The fishing wasn’t exactly stellar the two days my son and I fished in mid-June. There were thunderstorms each night, so the river was a little high and stained. My son is also new to a lightweight fly rod, and overhanging rhododendron and river birch are hardly easy terrain for a beginner. Still, we managed to catch numerous gorgeous rainbows slinging a dry-dropper rig with a small Pheasant Tail fished beneath a yellow Stimulator. There were little yellow Sally stoneflies in the air, so our selection of dry fly matched the hatch.

Good small-stream browns in the 14-inch range come from this stretch of water pretty regularly, but all we caught were rainbows with a couple measuring maybe 10 or 11 inches. That’s a pretty good fish in terms of little

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While my son might not be old enough to appreciate it, the cool mountain rout anglers have two options when it comes to deep summer. They can air and bedding down to the gurgle of the creek were the highlights of the trip. either hit tailwater fisheries, where dam-controlled flows provide stable The air temperature was easily 20 degrees cooler than back home, and I don’t year-round water temperatures, or they can seek out high-elevation know if I’ve ever slept better. headwaters, where both fish and angler find comfort in rhododendron-shaded For information, check out Nick Carter’s book “Flyfisher’s Guide to creeks with water conditions perennially perfect for little wild trout.

North Carolina & Georgia.” It’s available on Amazon or by Big fish and big hatches of tailrace trout fishing are certainly appealing. contacting the author at nsc8957@gmail.com.

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Throwing search baits, especially topwater, is one of the best and most fun ways to find groups of feeding fish. A style of lure that was created a long time ago but still works wonders today is an old-school topwater popper. You can throw this just about anywhere around rocks, grass, wood, docks and in open water to get bites.

When the weather gets hot and more people get on the water, getting fish to commit to a surface lure is sometimes almost impossible. What I like to do is put away the bigger topwaters like walking baits or Whopper Ploppers and take out a smaller Pop-Rstyle bait.

There are a few reasons this bait gets more bites in the right situations. The first is it’s smaller and quieter. A smaller profile and less noise is sometimes what these finicky fish want. I have seen many situations when throwing a big noisy topwater won’t get a single bite, but throwing a popper in the same area makes fish eat.

Another reason popper-style baits are very good is the speed at which you can work them. There are many topwaters that require highspeed retrieves.

With a popper, the slower you work it the more it drives them crazy. I vary my retrieve and see what the fish are feeling, but usually I’ll pop the bait subtly a few times and vary the action to make it look like a dying baitfish. Then I’ll let the bait sit for a few seconds before creating another movement. This absolutely drives them crazy.

One last reason poppers are deadly is that feathered rear treble hook. When fish are feeding on tiny baitfish or bugs, the feathered treble makes them bite. Sometimes even the small profile of the bait is still too big for them, but they come up and see the feathers and eat those instead.

Fishing the right rod and reel with a Pop-R makes a huge difference in landing fish. You want a rod with a good amount of bend because you don’t set the hook. Instead, you just reel into them. I use a 13 Fishing Defy Black 7’ cranking rod. For the reel, you want something that is able to cast a light lure as far as possible.

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