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Summer Slammers Tips and Tricks For Targeting BIG Dolphin By Gene Dyer

all them dolphin, dorado or mahi mahi, they are one of the most popular pelagic species to target because of their hard fighting nature and acrobatic displays, not to mention they are darn good eating. Inspired by the recent catch of a 72-pound monster bull by the charter boat Lady Pamela out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., here are some tips and tricks to help you put some slammers in the box. Without question, the best way to target big dolphin is on the troll. When trolling for dolphin, it’s important to maximize the presentation of your spread. It’s all about the quality of baits over quantity. We could certainly fish seven lines from our Mako 236, but I prefer to fish five. Keeping baits swimming properly and free of weeds is critical, but even more important is fresh bait. If you can’t get fresh ballyhoo, frozen will work, but be careful which package you select. Look for clear eyes, red tips on the beak and some yellow on the top of the tail. My five-bait spread consists of two flat lines, two outrigger baits and one in the shotgun position. Though I’ll adjust my spread during the day, I always start with a chin-weighted naked ballyhoo in one of the corners, just behind the prop wash. I use a flat line release clip to give the bait a better swimming action. In the other corner, we fish a daisy chain consisting of four small jet heads or squid skirts with a 6/0 J hook in the last lure behind a bird. I like to position the bird just behind the naked ballyhoo. On one outrigger, we fish a chugger-type lure in front of a rigged ballyhoo. On the other we fish an Islander-style lure with a rigged ballyhoo. In the shotgun, I like a quarter-ounce black-and-red feather with an orange head. Send it way back behind the rest of the spread. When trolling, many fish are lost because the boat gets taken out of gear with the excitement of the strike. Chances are that any slammers with an interest in your spread have been hooked before. They’ve gotten away at least once, and any slack in the line is asking for the same result. By staying at trolling speed, your other baits remain enticing to other fish in the school and increase the odds of a multiple hook up. Once the cockpit chaos has subsided, it’s OK to back the throttle off to idle speed, but never stop the boat from moving forward. Always be on the lookout for birds, and pay attention to what they are doing. Don’t bother chasing birds that are just flying. Look for birds that are diving or circling. Many times, they will lead you to a promising piece of debris, a well-defined edge or a nice weedline. When the birds do lead you to that magical floating debris or weedline, troll by it several times from different angles. If you don’t get bit, stop the boat on the last pass and let your baits sink for 30 seconds. Put the boat back and gear and you may be surprised by fish that were lurking deeper in the water column. One thing I can’t leave out is the importance of having the clickers on your reels in the on position. The obvious reason is to alert you of a strike while your eyes are scanning the horizon for birds, but there is a hidden, more important reason. Most slammers have been hooked before, and I believe they learn from those experiences. Whether they short strike your bait or intentionally try to kill it by ramming it with their broad heads, when you get knocked down and the fish isn’t there, immediately put the reel in free spool for 10 seconds. Nine times out of 10, that hungry slammer will come back to finish the meal.

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or the fifteenth straight year, the Ship of Fools Tournament attracted Costa Rica’s top anglers to Playa Garza. For the second time in three years, the FishingNosara team took home the hardware. Capt. Alex Moreno on the 32’ mega panga Harvester topped the leaderboard with 1,700 points (11 sailfish releases, one black marlin release and one blue marlin release) during the two-day event. “Alex is the dude,” exclaimed Capt. Patrick Humphrey, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “He has the best eyes I’ve ever seen and fishes as aggressively as we do in south Florida.” Capt. Humphrey runs trips for Lady Pamela II Sportfishing in Hollywood, Fla. He was joined by wife Jennifer, daughter Amelia, and angling legend Patrick Irwin. The Ship of Fools Tournament is one of the last true billfish release tournaments in Costa Rica. Each scoring fish must be billed and photographed by hand. With no snatch-leader releases, the difficultly increases tremendously. On the first day, 11 boats set out from Playa Garza and set up shop

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he worldwide demand for delicious and pricey bluefin tuna is unsustainable. The plunder of spawning accumulations in the Mediterranean drove Atlantic bluefin stocks nearly to collapse, and a similar scenario played out for Pacific bluefin off Japan. Stock assessments show Pacific bluefin tuna populations have fallen to less than 3 percent of their original levels. More stringent fishing regulations along with the farming of bluefin tuna have helped slow the decline of Pacific bluefin tuna, but the demand remains. Seeking a sustainable method to supply the world’s hunger for Pacific bluefin, The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FEAR) has awarded a $945,000 grant to Ichthus Unlimited LLC to establish a hatchery in the San Diego Bay area, where they will attempt to cultivate Pacific bluefin eggs and grow them for distribution to tuna farms. Because of the challenges of hatching and rearing these long-ranging apex predators in captivity, it took Japanese bluefin hatcheries more than three decades to begin successfully completing the breeding cycle without drawing from wild populations. The hope is that Ichthus Unlimited can begin providing juvenile Pacific bluefins to existing tuna farms, which currently stock their pens with wild-caught tuna. “Today 98 percent of tuna ranching relies on wild-captured fish for the stocking of net pens. This adds to the already massive fishing pressure on wild bluefin tuna populations,” said Alejandro Buentello, president of Ichthus Unlimited. “Hatchery-reared tuna will not only make it possible to stock cages without fishing, but it can also be used as a stock enhancement strategy to empower wild tuna populations to rebound more rapidly. It is a proactive rather than reactive strategy.” Despite the popularity of Pacific bluefin tuna, few indoor facilities in the world have the expertise needed to raise them from eggs. The team at Ichthus will collaborate with these indoor hatching facilities and leverage their combined knowledge to successfully implement this practice. As the “holy grail” of aquaculture, bluefin tuna can sell for tens of thousands and occasionally millions of dollars per fish. It is estimated that bluefin species products generate approximately $2-2.5 billion in value worldwide each year. Increases in tuna production would also create jobs and economic gains, particularly for coastal communities in California and the Gulf of Mexico. “Bluefin tuna aquaculture represents a major new high-value market for U.S. farmers, but there is much science to be done to produce the fish entirely under farmed conditions,” said Sally Rockey, FFAR executive director. “This research has the potential to not only stabilize the wild population, but also create economic opportunities in farming the delicacy.” COASTALANGLERMAG.COM • THEANGLERMAG.COM

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Beating The Breeze By Will Schmidt

hen we landed on Grand Bahama, the sun greeted our wintery white faces, and a 70-degree day with a light breeze warmed us to the core. Unfortunately, by morning, the greeting changed to 25 mph winds, which made conditions less than optimal for fly fishing. At home, we might have changed to conventional tackle or even skipped the trip all together, but we came here to fly fish for bonefish, and fly fish we would. Rather than get down on the conditions, we made some tactical changes and used the wind the best we could to our advantage. One benefit of this scenario is the fish tend to be less spooky in shallow water. The noise generated by the wind and the waves allows anglers to get closer without spooking the fish. In fact, glass calm days can be more challenging than some of the breezier ones. Here are a few tips to help out on those blustery days. • Shortening your leader can make a huge difference in accuracy. Fly line tracks relatively straight through wind, especially if you are double hauling. But that last 10 feet or so can be a real crap shoot when the wind is kicked up over 20 mph. Shortening the leader can really help with accuracy, especially in a crosswind. • Using a heavier fly has advantages. With wave action, weight helps the fly get down to the bottom faster, and that’s where the fish are feeding. Even in skinny water, where you would normally use just bead chain eyes, don’t be afraid to move up to some lead eyes as the disturbance caused by the wind helps conceal the splash. • Consider stepping up one rod weight. There is no doubt a heavier rod makes a huge difference in punching through the wind. Sometimes your best bet is to step up to make sure you can get the fly in front of the fish. Another option is to over-line your rod, which is moving up to a line that’s a weight heavier than the rod is rated for. This helps load the rod on the cast, which delivers a more powerful cast. • The best thing is practice. If you are going to spend good money to go on a trip, you want to give yourself the best chance for success. Most fly fishers only practice casting as far as possible. I don’t worry about that. Windy or not, you rarely need to cast more than 60 feet on the flats. Instead, concern yourself with quick accurate casts. And don’t forget to practice in the wind, not just head-on, but at every angle. A crosswind can move your fly off target, and casting 5 feet behind a fish rarely produces a strike. In the end, we didn’t let the wind blow our chances for success; we prevailed with some great Bahamas bones. Will Schmidt is a seasoned tournament angler and has been writing about fishing for more than two decades.

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hen fishing for many species, and especially wahoo, eliminating the “short strike” makes the fish box look a lot better back at the dock. There are few things more disappointing than checking a bait in the spread and discovering you have been pulling around a ballyhoo cleanly snipped off right behind the hook. Older and larger fish are not stupid; this “short strike” right behind the hook is not an ac-

175-pound cable, I like to make four wraps on the hook, but try it for yourself and use whatever feels good. Here’s how I do it: • Thread the end of approximately 18 inches through the inside bite of the hook eye, and make a loop about the size of a baseball. Hold the loop between you left thumb and index finger. • Make four wraps around the hook shank, from the back of the bend going forward. • Pull the tag end of the cable with pliers until “snug” on

cident. Don’t get me wrong… there have been more wahoo, dolphin and tuna caught on pin-rigged ballyhoo than all the other offerings combined. However, there are days when a nice “clean” naked ballyhoo swimming like a snake with an almost invisible stinger hook is the only trick that works. There are several brands of seven-strand cable that will work just fine, but for this snelled stinger hook, I use American Fishing Wire 175-pound, brown cable. It’s soft and folds into place nicely. And it’s strong when crimped and snelled. In addition to the stinger hook, I like to snell a short piece onto the front end of the ballyhoo to avoid the total bite off. Snelling cable is no different than snelling mono or fluoro, but with less wraps. With the

the hook shank, and push the wraps forward toward the eye of the hook before cinching down on the cable. • Next, make a couple wraps of the cable around one hand and pull hard on the main line and the tag end with pliers at the same time to cinch down tight on the snell. • The main line end of cable now needs to be cut to the right length and crimped to the proper diameter to fit around the main hook and for the proper length of the ballyhoo. For a detailed video of this clean and super strong stinger hook and how to apply it, check out the website and click on “Clean (Snelled) Stinger Hook Assembly;” www.barefootcatsandtackle.com.

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By Tom Schlichter May sees a big influx of red drum, cobia, Spanish mackerel, black drum and sheepshead enter the waters of Chesapeake Bay. Photo courtesy of Captain Hogg’s Charter Service.

here’s no doubt Chesapeake Bay is a fishy place, but anglers with single-species tunnel vision can be missing out on a whole lot of fun, believes Capt. Chandler Hogg, of Captain Hogg’s Charter Service in Hampton, Va. A professional charter skipper for over 25 years, Hogg has refused to pigeonhole himself into being a one-trick pony. Instead, he treats his fares to the full Chesapeake Bay experience. “Just about everything here, from sheepshead to red drum and even cobia, bites best for an hour or so each tide,” he said. “Thing is, different species often favor different current strengths, so it’s possible to hit the peak slot for several kinds of fish during the course of a day if you plan it out right.”

roadbill anglers take note. The Swordfish Cup, a tournament with a 24-hour format, will be held July 27-28. Anglers around the world will be eligible to compete in their respective time zones in this contest presented by Fly Zone Fishing and RJ Boyle Studio. The entry fee for the Swordfish Cup is $1,500 per team, with the winner taking 80 percent of the fees for the heaviest fish exceeding the 200-pound minimum weight. All line class weights will be allowed. Contestants may only use conventional rods and reels, including electric reels mounted on rods. Hand gear, bandit gear and hydraulic reels are not permitted. Harpoons may be used to boat the fish. In the event of a tie, the first eligible fish boated shall be declared the winner. Weigh-ins will be conducted at approved scales certified by governmental authorities within the last year. Fishing hours will be from 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 27 until 8 a.m. on Sunday, July 28, in each local time zone. Continuous video verification of the gaffing and boating of the fish with a GPS date and time stamp will be required to prove the catch was made during the specified tournament hours. The winning angler and/or team member may also be required to take a polygraph test. For more information on the tournament or to register, visit www. swordfishcup.com.

May on the Chesapeake is an especially productive month, noted Hogg, as various species return to the enormous estuary to feed and spawn. Lured by migrating schools of bunker, black drum that can bust 100 pounds, cobia to 95 pounds and red drum to 70 pounds make their way into the bay just as the last migratory cow rockfish are heading out for points farther north. These are followed by Spanish mackerel, bluefish, sea trout and summer flounder intent on loading-up on bay anchovies and shiners that arrive in mass as waters continue to warm. Bottom dwellers, too, find the Chesapeake inviting. “That’s because we have endless structure around here,” noted Hogg. “The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, for example, offers 19 miles of pilings all covered with barnacles, blue mussels and crabs. We’ve got monster sheepshead to 16 pounds, plus spadefish to 12 pounds inhabiting nearly the entire length of this structure. There’s also croaker and spot on open bottom nearby.” Hogg often starts out trolling gold Drone or Clark spoons at a 6-knot pace for Spanish mackerel around the bridge in the morning, keeping a spinning rod ready to sight cast a Spro bucktail for cobia or red drum they may spot around sandbars that intersect Temple and Baltimore channels. He’ll also chum and chunk for the big reds on days they seem a little shy. Incidental bluefish are stripped to tip bucktails when probing around pilings for flounder, trout and puppy drum. For the spadefish and sheepshead, a small piece of chowder clam on a fish-finder rig with a size 2 Mutu offset circle hook is tossed right up against the bridge. The same rig in more open water accounts for croaker and spot. Typically, his fares will catch seven or eight species of fish each day. “I love mixing things up,” said this veteran captain. “Still, if I had to choose my favorite it would be the red drum. It’s a noble fish that’s challenging to tempt, grows big, fights hard and never disappoints.” To hook-up with Capt. Hogg, visit www.captainhoggscharters.com or call (757) 876-1590. If you’d rather figure out the fishing on your own, launch at a free state ramp at Wallace’s Bait and Tackle (757-851-5451; @WallacesBaitandTackle) in Hampton.

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ast month, the recreational season for striped bass began in New York’s tidal Hudson River. These fish spend most of their time in coastal waters but return to the freshwater of the Hudson each spring to spawn. The Hudson River acts as a nursery for newly hatched youngof-year bass. Striped bass commonly reach lengths of more than 3 feet and weights exceeding 30 pounds. For people who fish the Hudson for sport, the striper is a favorite catch. Before you head out, enroll in the annual non-fee Recreational Marine Fishing Registry, and read a summary of Tidal Hudson River Regulations. Striped bass are cooperatively managed along the Atlantic coast by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Along with other states, New York has required regulatory measures that include monitoring programs, recreational and commercial minimum size limits, recreational creel limits, and commercial quotas to manage and evaluate the condition of the striped bass stock. From April to June, Hudson River fisheries crews use a 500-foot haul seine, as well as an electrofishing boat to catch spawning striped bass. Biologists measure, weigh, and collect scale samples for aging before tagging and returning the fish to the river. If you fish for striped bass in the Hudson, share your information and help biologists understand and manage New York’s striped bass fishery. Fill out a logbook provided by DEC whenever you fish on the Hudson. Record location, time, gear used, what you caught (or if you didn’t catch anything) and return the logbook when you are done fishing. You’ll receive an annual newsletter summarizing the information in addition to the latest news regarding regulations and the river. Join by contacting Jessica Best 845-256-3009 jessica.best@dec.ny.gov.

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he drag was set perfectly, and your knot held true. But somehow that fish got away. As you stand there, envisioning the beautiful creature swimming off to points unknown, you agonize over what went wrong. The culprit? A pulled hook—the cause of more lost fish than any other user error. In today’s world of zero-stretch braided lines, extra-fast action graphite rods and low-stretch fluorocarbon leader material, one reality seems to have been forgotten: stretch is a good thing. Not bungee cord, rubber band, over-the-top stretch. But some stretch. Stretch equates to shock absorption, which along with a barb are the only things keeping the hook in your quarry’s mouth. With tackle catering to sensitivity, it should come as no surprise that pulled hooks are a bigger problem today than they were in years past, when

By James Bradley

ight fishing for trout is a fun way to catch them. It can also be an easy way, since what you are seeing is trout actively feeding. The two easiest ways to sight fish are to look for rises and to look for trout visibly feeding on the bottom of the stream. Without getting overly complicated, there are three main types of rises. These are the sip rise, head-to-tail rise and splashy rise. These three types are the ones trout use to take a floating insect from the surface, from just underneath the surface and above the surface. The sip and head-to-tail rises form dimple rings on the surface as long as the current isn’t too strong. Dimple rings are left behind where the trout slightly broke the surface to sip an insect. You might not see the trout at all, but the rings are left as evidence. The headto-tail rise is when the trout breaks the surface with its head first,

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monofilament line and slower-action fiberglass rods dominated the market. A pulled hook occurs when the hook comes loose from its original setting in a fish’s mouth. Provided that you have set the hook firmly to begin with, the cause will almost certainly be that the tissue in the fish’s mouth has worn too much to hold it in place. The hook then falls or is pulled out on a subsequent slack line, jerk of the rod, head turn or shake. To mitigate the stresses of battle on your quarry’s mouth, we must implement stretch into our fishing strategy. Thankfully, we don’t have to trade in all our sensitive gear for bouncier tackle of the past. Sound technique can mask the stretch deficiency inherent in today’s tackle. First off, after you set the hook in a fish, always keep a bend in the rod. The rod is your failsafe shock absorber; it responds to how you use it. If you maintain a bend in the rod, you have guaranteed at least some stretch will remain in the system. Next, never sweep or jerk the rod after the hook is set. This will only tear tissue in the fish’s mouth, increasing the chances of a pulled hook. Steady, even pressure wins the fight. Most fishermen tend to think that the newest tackle to the market is always the surest bet. With braided lines being more popular than ever, many anglers fail to realize that monofilament has an important role in fishing. Some situations call for extra shock absorption and a slower response. When fishing on a beach with wave action, mono is your best option to keep a fish hooked as it fights to free itself in the last wave. Ever hook a true giant close to your position on a bridge, pier or boat? Spool up with mono now, and be thankful that you did. Think carefully about your tackle. Evaluate the role of your rod, line and leader. Fish hard, and don’t let that big one get away. John Saporito is a lifelong fisherman and student of the seas. For deeper insight into the world of gamefish, visit him online at www. guerillaangling.com.

and you might see its dorsal fin and then finally the tail. This rise is a little more forceful, and many times will leave a greater disturbance than the sip rise. Lastly, the splashy rise is when the trout completely clears the water and is usually catching an insect that is depositing eggs on the water. The sip rise means trout are probably surface feeding on mayflies or stoneflies. The head to tail rise means trout are probably feeding on insects in the surface film like a mayfly, ant or grasshopper or maybe a nymph struggling toward the surface. The splashy rise means trout are feeding on insects above the surface, like a caddis laying its eggs. With a good pair of polarized sunglasses, spotting trout feeding on the bottom of a stream is a matter of watching for a silver flash or possibly tailing. When trout take nymphs off the bottom, they turn sideways to take the insect. The flash you see is the fish feeding. Tailing is when a trout’s tail protrudes toward the surface. They do this to dig or root the bottom for immature insects, grubs, etc. Some common mistakes to avoid: Do not cast to the rise. Trout will leave their lie to examine an insect (your fly) and actually float downstream with the insect before the rise. They may examine the insect for the distance of a foot or five feet. After the trout rises, it moves back upstream to its lie. If you cast to the rise, there’s a good chance that trout has already moved upstream and will never see your offering. Do not cast to a trout displaying a silver side unless you have your fly at the correct depth. That fish is looking down at the bottom. If your fly isn’t on the bottom, it will never be seen. James Bradley is an Orvis-endorsed fly fishing guide in north Georgia’s. Reel Em In Guide Service has permits for guiding in Georgia and North Carolina, offers over 6 miles of private trophy waters, and operates drift boat trips on the Toccoa and Tuckasegee rivers. Contact them at www.ReelEmInGuideService.com or (706) 2730764.

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know I’m not the first person to notice that we’re losing prime fishable time from our already foreshortened New England seasons. I also know, having discussed this apparent new trend of the last decade or so with numerous folks in seemingly every party of the larger fishing industry, that the underlying causes for this new challenge are numerous and complex. Obviously, the last 15 years of regulatory wrangling have cost us many or most of our historical rod-and-reeling options—especially those early-season opportunities that helped foregoing generations of anglers justify a decision to dump the boat in three weeks on the frigid side of Memorial Day. Winter flounder landed on the off-limits list some years back with a regulation that closed Rhode Island’s various salt ponds and other estuaries up Narragansett Bay—in reality, all the remaining places that held enough spring flatfish to warrant so much as an

attempt. So have those who target spring tautog in Narragansett Bay lost much of their traditional window of focused blackfishing. Some years, we’ve paid for a previous season’s summer flounder excesses with a very late opener that cost us most or all of May. In at least as many cases, biological/ ecological reality have put a serious dent in our early angling ambitions. Whereas we enjoyed solid spring codfishing through the 1980s—and had some good years thereafter—the April-May action south and east of Block Island has failed to materialize, even in the years we’ve had bang-up groundfishing straight through the winter. While there’s little doubt the loss of these one-time spring fishing opportunities has contributed to the universal decline in spring effort,

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Tease Your Way to Early-Season Fluke

pril is a tough month to be an angler in the Northeast. Sure, it offers the occasional glimpse of sunshine, a warm day here and there, and the promise of a new fishing season, but by Nature, April days are often chilly, wet and windy. May, on the other hand, delivers on April’s tease with warming trends, gentle winds and fishing promise usually fulfilled. By the passing of the first full moon, most of the early season finsters are on the scene and the fishing should shift into high gear with stripers, scup, blues and, of course, summer flounder all in good supply. It’s the summer flatties that always seem to capture my interest most, for they are challenging to hook, put up a good fight on light tackle, and are especially pleasing to the pallet. My favorite starting point for a lively fluke discussion these days centers on the use of teasers. It seems nearly every serious fluke angler has a few deeply held convictions on the topic. Some anglers, for example, depend on a specific color or pattern; others favor teasers that are sparsely tied while another school holds that full-bodied teasers attract

The author shows off a fat summer flattie that smacked a Panther Martin Fluke Train as it trailed below a plain, white teaser. OutdoorTom.com photo.

bigger fish. A fair number of fluke sharpies like their teasers to sport wide-gap or octopus-style name-brand hooks, but I know nearly as many excellent fluke fishermen who opt for the simple flash of a little bucktail wrapped around a standard sproat. Among my flukeseeking buddies are those who position teasers three feet above the bottom hook or jig, others that tie them at six- to eight inches, and a slew insisting that 14 to 20 inches above the bottom hook is the right height no matter where you fish. There are anglers who will use soft plastic shads and grubs as fluke teasers, those who will tie on the cheapest puff of attractant they can buy, and others willing to invest a lot of time and money to create or track down virtual works of art to lure in their fluke. All this, and we haven’t even touched on whether or not a teaser should be worked straight up and down or allowed to drop back with a little scope in the line. Then there is my buddy Michael Potts, skipper of the Montauk charter boat Blue Fin, IV, and one of the better fluke skippers I know. He claims that fluke teasers aren’t really teasers at all since true “teasers” don’t have hooks. “Check your umbrella rig, or an offshore tuna spread,” he antagonized me, “See the hookless tubes and birds? Those are real teasers.” Ah, the semantics of the fishing game. But Potts may actually Fluke teasers these days come in all sorts of colors, shapes and sized. be right if we get really technical about things. Still to most local While it’s okay to have a favorite, adding a little variety to your selection anglers fluke teasers are simply any dressed upper hook on a high-

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low rig. The primary dressings can include bucktail hair, synthetic materials such as Mylar, Flashabue or Krystal Flash, feathers, soft plastic grubs or even a small jig. Call them what you want, and choose whichever style catches your fancy but know this much is certain: adding a teaser to your favorite fluke rig virtually guarantees more summer flatties over the course of a season.

COLOR CAN MATTER

Naturally, there are a few points to keep in mind when selecting fluke teasers and, despite all the debate, several patterns seem to hold true across most fluking hot spots. Consider color, for example. White teasers seem to produce just about everywhere, and these serve as a good control option since you know they should bring at least a fair response. I think they tend to work best in clear water, especially on sunny days. Chartreuse is another teaser color that sees regular action. Because of its high visibility, it’s a great initial choice when the water is murky. Pink is yet a third top producer, especially when the fluke are feeding on local squid in early May, mantis shrimp in late-June, or small calico crabs in July and August. Black works well when you have to deal with a bit of brown tide. After these choices color selection is a free-for-all. Olive and green have many followers when sand eels or spearing abound. Orange and red match up well to young sea robins. Silver and blue complement peanut bunker, rain bait, or small snappers, while yellow or gold are a good match if juvenile weakfish or a set of small blowfish take up temporary residence in your favorite fluke haunt. With the discovery last year of the fluke’s affection for salmoncolored Berkley Gulp! you can bet this spring will see some salmoncolored teasers added to the arsenal. No matter the color, most fluke teasers, I think, are made more effective when tied with a white belly section, or at least a few strands of synthetic material that add flash or iridescence to the pattern.

You never know which color teaser is going to be the hot ticket on any day. Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay often sees bright blue lead the way. Photo courtesy of Deena Lippman, Shinnecock Star, Hampton Bays, NY. a wide margin. If keepers are the point, a size 4/0 to 6/0 teaser is a more logical choice. The larger profile of these sizes seems to discourage short fluke, and sometimes even intimidates sea robins. I like a 4/0 for most of my bay and sound fishing. For open ocean waters, or ports with a big fish reputation such as Greenport, Montauk or Nantucket Shoals, a 5/0 size generally works fine. It discourages small fish from biting, can be tipped with a decent sized sweetener, and has the strength to handle the biggest fluke you’ll ever hook.

TIPPING IS ENCOURAGED

Tipping fluke teasers with a piece of bait is one theme that seems to have nearly universal appeal. Most sharpies select a minnow or a short, thin strip of squid or fish belly to add a little scent and taste to their offerings. The key is to keep the added bait relatively light so that the teaser will continue to dance seductively above the lower bait or jig. In other words, tip accordingly without being overly generous. Larger teasers can handle larger baits. The exception to this rule is when using Gulp! If you go with synthetic bait, there’s no need to add the real thing. In fact, adding a shiner or strip bait is likely to take away from the action of your grub or minnow teaser so simply fish them solo. What’s the perfect teaser size? Some anglers use the exact same color and teaser size wherever they fish. Most highly successful fluke anglers, however, base teaser size on location and the size of the fluke they hope to catch. Size 3/0 teasers can provide a lot of fun with short fluke inside bay and harbor waters. They are small enough to provide plenty of action and big enough to turn the head of an occasional keeper. I crush the barbs on these teasers when I fish in shallow areas where shorts are sure to outnumber keepers by

When all else fails, a plain white teaser is always a good bet. OutdoorTom.com photo.

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reedom Boat Club is no stranger to readers of Coastal Angler Magazine. We often tout the advantages of being a member, including access to a variety of boat styles ranging from 24-foot center consoles to bow riding sundecks, pontoons and dual consoles. We appreciate that there are a dozen locations to call home in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and that members can sail from any Freedom Boat Club locally or across the nation. With over 175 locations from here to the Florida Keys and beyond, the boating and fishing opportunities are endless. While we’ve also highlighted how close each club within our geographic area is to good fishing, a recent conversation with Gaige Simon, membership executive and director of training, turned me on to another great aspect of club membership: free training. That’s always been listed in the Freedom Boats literature, but I had figured it was just a basic “once around the block” in terms of seamanship. Turns out it’s much more. “We really want members to have the best experience possible,” explains Simon, “so we try to cover as much as we can over a reasonable amount of time. What we offer, actually, is free, unlimited training on the water so you can keep learning and practicing until you feel safe and comfortable operating any vessel in our fleet. There is no cost for these training sessions, except that the trainee pays for gas.” Gaige actually does most of the training sessions himself for the Long Island club locations, traveling from club to club as needed to accommodate members. He offers both basic training for beginners and intermediate training for those who already have sea legs and a little bit of experience at the helm. “We cover pretty much everything you need to know to stay safe, have fun and truly experience the boating lifestyle,” says Simon. “All new members are required to take a basic training course before they can book a boat. The courses are taught by Coast Guard licensed instructors and begin with a classroom session going over rules, boating protocols and club protocols before advancing to one-on-one sessions on the water involving basic boat handling strategies and skills.” According to Simon, instructors spend as much time with club members as needed while covering navigation, docking, anchoring, chart reading, electronics, tides and currents, weather issues, emergency procedures, breakdowns, towing, etc. As you continue to learn and enjoy

Jed Moloney landed this striped bass with Gaige Simon of Freedom Boat Club while live-lining a bunker. 6 LONG ISLAND

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Black sea bass can be caught out of any local Freedom Boat Club at some point in the season. This one smacked a Spro Bucktail tipped with squid. Photo by Tom Schlichter. your days afloat, you can continue to schedule practice sessions and time with the instructors to tackle additional optional boating topics. “The boating instruction is great, of course,” says Simon, “but we offer fishing instruction as well. Don’t know how to rig your line, which bait or lure to throw, or where to try for that trophy of a lifetime? There’s always staff around that can show you the ropes. In fact, members of any of our Long Island clubs can sign-up to have me come aboard and help show them how it’s done. All you need to do is ask. Since I’m on the water every week, I also usually have a good feel about where the fishing is likely to be best at any given time. I can even arrange to get you out for the magic ours around dawn and dusk. On their own, the earliest club members can depart the dock is 8 a.m.” Timing, of course, is vital to success for any angler, as is heading for the right spot for the species sought. Learning to read your electronics is also important, and you’ll be glad to know that all Freedom Boats come with a full electronics package on board. “One of the best things about being a club member from an angler’s perspective,” says Simon, “is that you can follow the fish wherever the action may be. In May, stripers flood into the western end of Long Island Sound where they are easy to reach from our Port Washington and new Glen Cove locations, or our Stamford club on the Connecticut side. At the same time, you might have bass chasing bunker along Long Island’s south shore. You can reach those fish from our Freeport and Lindenhurst locations with ease.” Indeed, while the fishing tends to be good throughout the season for most Freedom Boat Club locations in our area, each one has a slot or two when it really shines. From Northport and Branford, members can cash in on stripers through late spring in the harbors and back bay areas which are also accessible from both club locations. Fluke fans can work the famed Eaton’s Neck Triangle from the Northport, Port Washington and Glen Cove locations and, later in the summer access the Eastern Long Island Sound from our Port Jefferson location. They can also hit the famous Middle Grounds from both New York and Connecticut locations. As for everyday action, you’ll find fluke, scup, sea bass, bluefish, school stripers and false albacore available at various points throughout the season in the waters surrounding most club locations.

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Welcome to our ongoing series highlighting Lhode Island’s fresh seafood in the growing trend of providing local and sustainable fish and shellfish to consumers and restaurants. In this Sea-to-Table column, we highlight a different seafood each month, interview the folks who grow and catch the food, as well as the restaurant owners and chefs who prepare it. We feature their favorite recipes along with wine and beer pairings to enhance the experience. We invite you to enjoy our recommendations and to submit your own to us at www.coastalanglermag.com/longisland.

PARMESAN-ENCRUSTED SEA ROBIN FROM “SIMMERING THE SEA, DIVERSIFYING COOKERY TO SUSTAIN OUR FISHERIES”

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am the fancifully named sea robin. Though I may not be as graceful as my feathered friends of the air, I am quite proud of my fanlike wings—er, fins—whose full wingspan is as wide as my body is long. I can also walk. My pointy forelegs are modified pectoral fin rays that I use to creep stealthily along the seafloor. And I can swim fast, make leaps to save myself if attacked, or ascend to the surface for a leisurely promenade. I share many traits with my

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cousins the sea ravens and the sculpins. The main difference is that they are ugly and I am quite goodlooking—or so my mother tells me. All three of us sample from the smorgasbord of small animals that are found in or near the ocean bottom: worms, crustaceans, and small fishes. When our meal is interrupted by rivals, we produce a variety of clucks, grunts, growls, barks, and bursts by vibrating our swim bladders.

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4 sea robins, gutted 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, finely grated 1/2 tablespoon curry powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons olive oil Lime or lemon wedge for garnish

This recipe can be found in “Simmering the Sea, Diversifying Cookery to Sustain our Fisheries” a new local seafood cookbook produced in collaboration between the non-profit Eating with the Ecosystem, the University of Rhode Island, and Johnson & Wales University.

Set oven to 350°F. Hold the tail of the fish with a kitchen cloth and, using a sharp knife, cut the dorsal fin away, moving toward the head. Insert kitchen shears behind the head and cut through the spine without cutting off the head. Using 2 kitchen cloths, bend the head toward the belly and pull toward the tail. As you pull you will remove skin from flesh. Discard the head and skin. Cut off belly fins using kitchen shears. Rinse each fish under cold running water and pat dry. Mix together parmesan cheese, curry powder, and salt. Set a pan over medium heat and add oil. Dredge each fish in parmesan mixture. Sear fish on both sides until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes. Place on a roasting rack in oven, belly side down, and roast for 5 to 8 minutes or until done (when internal temperature reaches 145°F). The fish can be served on top of fresh greens, braised lentils, or braised cauliflower. You may substitute the sea robin with monkfish, pollock, halibut, scallops, sea raven, or sculpin.

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FISH FOCUS (Continued from Page 3) truth is, even when those were viable options for folks dying to get an sizes on fluke, the loss of school bluefin tuna or black sea bass, among early jump, only a small fraction of Ocean State recs ever really logged endless others—the charter fleet kept sailing on striped bass. But much time in those fisheries. Put another way, it wasn’t winter flounder every other regulatory loss ratcheted up pressure on the remaining that used to have local marinas starting a waiting list before June. 2@28” bass. The economic meltdown in 2008 sure didn’t help things for the During that same span of years, the fishing media, and by extension boating/fishing public. But even in the darkest days of that period, the recreational fishing public, went trophy-striper crazy. By 2007 or fishing participation was up. In fact, it has typically been true that so, it was becoming challenging for RI charterboats to fill in schedules fishing participation resists economic turmoil better than most for the early season—May and early June, or again late, October into leisure activities. November, with fast action on generally smaller migrating fish—when Although the decline in spring fishing has been clear for the better every fishing report or feature made it clear the big girls showed the last part of the last ten years, it has intensified at an alarming rate the last week of June, first of July. few seasons, to the extent that friends of mine in the marina, tackle, Then, by 2012 or so, when, despite huge loads of 40- and and party/charter-fishing businesses are getting scared for the future. 50-pounders coming from Block Island, the stock began to show stress The problem is that there’s no obvious problem to blame for the sharp cracks, the business started to pull back from the ends of the season. decline in spring activity. In the heat of the debates, I chastised charter captains for creating I hate to say it, lest various folks with whom I’ve argued loudly in their own nightmare, teaching clientele to define trip success in terms recent years accuse me of somehow of “limiting out” on bass, and in the relishing in their misfortune, but I process turning each new group into can’t shake the feeling that the lack of the worst kind of meat mongers. To Although the decline in spring fishing early-season fishing ambition/energy be fair, I had many of those same has been clear for the better part of the last is a direct consequence of our striper arguments in the cockpit, an uppity situation, specifically the disruption, deckape grown a bit too big for ten years, it has intensified at an alarming two years back, of the longstanding his rubberized britches. For all my rate the last few seasons two-striper economy. own public righteousness, I made If I’ve learned one thing in my all kinds of coin on striper hides— 20-year run in the fishery, it’s that in can’t remember a time then when I a community as small and as tight as RI’s sport-fishing world, nothing wept into the full fish boxes over the plight of stripers. ever happens in a vacuum. Now, the marinas are still gap-toothed (at best) in early June—a Through the regulatory process that culminated in the passage of sea of open slips right on the threshold of high tourist season. And measures that reduced the possession limit from two to a single striped the charter docks are packed to capacity weekdays, May through late bass, all kinds of animosity grew between “private” recreational anglers June—the loss of that second all-important striper just enough to get and so-called “for-hire” (i.e. party/charter) recreational fishermen. too many clients standing by for slob time. “If it’s only going to be one Where the final regulations made no distinction between the two fish,” goes their logic, “that one’s gonna weight 35 pounds…” groups, the truth is that the two user groups use the striper resource What no one anticipated in all of this is the impact on the larger differently. None of the rhetorical specifics of the ongoing arguments fishing community of all these charter boats chafing the pilings—all the matter to my point; I mention the rift between charter captains and May and June trips they’re not making. I’m only now beginning to see private recs only because it has muddied the waters badly—made it it, and I observed the comings and goings of those boats on a full-time difficult for either side to concede common ground with the other. professional basis for almost two decades. In reality, the loss of the second fish has wounded seriously a The grim reality is that, since the end of the Moratorium, it has charter fleet that spent more than 15 years building repeat clientele always been the charterboats grinding away, command performance and filling out seasonal bookings on a two-bass economy. Through after command performance in windy, raw May conditions that set the dozens of other regulatory losses—the massive escalation of minimum whole striper-obsessed world in motion again after each brutal winter. It was the party and charter boats, bigger and more seaworthy, who put in the early weather, who found (or confirmed the arrival of) the first shots of early stripers in the Rip or off the SW Corner or down the beach. More to the point, it was the full-timers who not only returned to port with the first loads of good fish, but understood the need to get that word out to the public. Especially now, in an era when the fishery’s young bucks are trying to make trade secrets out of common knowledge, the fish still keep the old migratory schedules. Still, we need to hear it before we’ll roll the dice. To lean on one very old analogy, we are all standing around with our frame packs slung over our shoulders 20 miles from the nearest stand of scrub maples, 50 miles from the nearest trailhead, ears open, wondering when we can expect to hear the first 100-year-old tree hit the forest floor.

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The Texas team consisted of Isaac Avery, of Longview, Laramy Barber, of Sabine and Hunter Graham, of Henderson. “My teammates and I have fished this tournament for three years and have always strived to be at the top. Last Saturday we were able to put the big stringer of fish together for the win. Hard work and determination from all the team put us in the right spot at the right time. Thanks to Bass Pro Shops for hosting a tournament of this magnitude and allowing us to compete in something all bowfisherman love to do,” said Avery. The U.S. Open Bowfishing Championship is the largest event of its kind in the fast-growing sport of bowfishing. This year’s event featured the largest competition and biggest prizes in the tournament’s seven-year history. The championship purse included more than $100,000 worth of prizes and giveaways. A four-man team representing Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma won the Big Buffalo and Biggest Overall categories in addition to taking eighth place in the tournament. Team Obscure Adventures’ big fish weighed 73.3 pounds, and they scored an overall weight of 365.8 pounds. Their total cash payout was $9,530. The No Limit team from Center, Texas took fourth place in the tournament and won the Biggest Common Carp category with a 51.6-pound carp out of Toledo Bend. Their total weight of 402.2 pounds netted the four-man team $6,610. Team PossumCods, another four-man team from Texas, scored the Biggest Grass Carp category with a winning weight of 58.3 pounds and claimed the $3,200 cash prize. Besides being a fun weekend for participants and families, the bowfishing event provides lasting environmental benefits for area lakes. Bowfishing, combining elements of fishing with archery to harvest rough fish species, is one of the fastest growing sports in the outdoor industry. Unlike traditional game fishing, bowfishing uses specialized bows to target species including carp, buffalo and gar that plague lakes, rivers and streams around the country. Removing these undesirable species improves habitat conditions for native game fish.

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ne of the most anticipated times of the year has arrived in southwest Florida: tarpon season! Guides from around the state and anglers from all over the world come down to partake in the abundant tarpon fishery on Florida’s southern Gulf coast. The tarpon show up here each year to feed and spawn. Northwest of Fort Myers, Fla., Charlotte Harbor is particularly good for bait due to seemingly endless mangrove shorelines and extensive grass flats fed by two large rivers, the Peace and Myakka. With its large harbor and the deep Boca Grande Pass, Charlotte Harbor is also a good refuge when the tarpon spawn. It is not uncommon for tens of thousands of tarpon to migrate to the area starting in April. They’ll stick around even after they finish their spawn in early July, and then they’ll have just one thing on their minds. That is to feed! You’ve got to gear up to do battle with a silver king potentially weighing up to 200 pounds. A heavy spinning rod should be plenty, and you might even be able to get away with a medium-heavy depending on the area you fish. Couple this with a size 6000-plus spinning reel, something with around 30-pounds of max drag, spooled with 65-pound braided line. This is a fair-sized combo that allows you to fight the fish but still get it to the boat without overly exhausting it. A 50-pound fluorocarbon leader with a 7/0 circle hook will allow a clean hookset and enough strength and abrasion resistance to land the fish of a lifetime. Where you target these fish will usually dictate the baits you use. In the Charlotte Harbor area, I catch these fish using a dead mullet on the bottom up the Peace River or a half dollar-size blue crab off the beach. It all depends on bait in the area and the area being fished. Other baits anglers may choose are pinfish, shrimp and ladyfish or artificials. All of these methods work when applied

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Capt. Nick very carefully positioned the boat, and once he was happy with the position and drift of the first line, he sent out a second line with a buoy. The buoy had drifted about 100 yards from the boat when Capt. Nick said simply, “The buoy!” Then… “It’s big!” Immediately, we reeled in the first line to get it out of the way. Bill jumped on the buoy line and began to reel… and reel… and reel some more. Five and a half hours later, we got our first glimpse of the fish when it jumped about a quarter mile behind the boat. We could see it was big, but we didn’t realize how big because it was so far away. Two hours later, we got a better look at the monster. Each time Bill got the leader to the reel, the broadbill saw the boat and ripped off line Bill had fought so hard to gain. Capt. Nick busied himself keeping the line from touching the boat and keeping the fish from running under the boat. If at any point the line had touched the boat, it would have parted, and the fish would be gone. It felt like we were on a whirl ride at the carnival. We circled with the fish, and then in a flash it would streak away. Capt. Nick would turn the boat to cruise beside the fish until it dove toward the bottom. More than eight hours into the battle, Bill brought the giant fish boatside. It was still very blue in color and fresh. The fight would have continued, except the fish made the fatal mistake of swimming within range of Konner and his harpoon. Konner deftly stuck the fish in the backbone. After two darts and three gaffs, Capt. Nick was able to get a tail rope on this Jurassic fish, and the fight was over. It took a block and tackle and lots of brute strength to load the swordfish in the boat. Back at the docks, it weighed 757.8 pounds and measured 111 inches from the lower jaw to the fork of the tail. The bill was 40 inches long, even though part of it had previously broken off. To learn more about Capt. Nick Stanczyk, out of Bud N’ Mary’s Marina in Islamorada, Florida, go to daytimeswordfish.com.

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f you’re a boat owner and you fly fish, at some point you’ll have to read a fishfinder/ global positioning system or GPS unit. The fishfinder/GPS unit is a key component to success when fishing in saltwater and on large freshwater reservoirs. Whether pinpointing schools of baitfish, locating structure points, reading water temperatures or getting you safely back to your launching site, this unit’s importance to the angler cannot be overstated. There are even portable models that allow for mounting on kayaks. Today’s fishing tackle stores and mail-order or online catalogs

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