With the 2023 in the books, and your catches logged GotOne anglers caught and logged fish in in the GotOne app, it’s time to take stock6,687 of another 2023! We thought you'd enjoy seeing some of the fun and memory-filled season of fishing… insights your data generated.
Congratulations on another eventful fishing season, Captain Mike. Your season off onthe May 10dominant at the West Endspecies of the Canal, logged. Striped Basskicked were marking and the beginning of your season fishingwere for striped bass inpopular. Bluefish false albacore also 54-degree water. May set a high bar for the season, boasting 12 The catch data in the first year of GotOne landed bass.
reflects the broad range of fish you pursued, June brought you to Monomoy Rips, a spot that proved particularly including cobia, tarpon, tautog, redfish, rewarding with its and successful catches of striped bass, totaling 32 for bluefin tuna, more: the month and marking the beginning of the summer fishing season.
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August took you to Nobska Point, where the season's first false ● Bonefish: 35 Striped Bass: 3785 albacore showed up. You landed 8 of the prized and hard-to-fool
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gamefish this month, highlighting your ability to attract and capture ● Bluefin Tuna: 32 Bluefish: 436
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False Albacore: 401
these elusive catches.
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Cobia: 27
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September marked the highpoint of your 2023 albie season, with 22 Albacore: 22 landed198 fish. Your effective adaptation to● the late-summer conditions Fluke: was evident as you navigated the changing environment with ● Permit: 19 Red expertise. Drum: 162
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Yellowfin Tautog: 133 The season wrapped up in October with ● a return to Woods Hole,Tuna: 10
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● Grouper: 6 Snook: ended 79 the season on a high note, adding to the year's fulfillment and
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satisfaction. Your total of 108 catches across a variety of species and ● Blackfin Tuna: 4 Speckled Trout: 56 habitats speaks volumes about your fishing journey.
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Atlantic Bonito: 52
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where striped bass made a strong comeback. With 27 catches, you
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Skipjack Tuna: 3
Reflecting on the season, it's clear that each expedition, each catch, and each52 moment on the water contributed a year filled Tuna: with ● toBigeye 1 Tarpon: memorable fishing adventures. Here's to the memories made and the excitement the next 49 season's possibilities! Black Sea for Bass:
CATCHES BY SPECIES AND MONTH:
2023 SEASON NOTABLE DATES: Most productive days: October 4 and October 25, with 93 and 92 catches respectively ● The first fish was logged January 2 ● The last fish was logged December 18 ● Fishing activities spanned 325 unique days in 2023 ●
2023 SEASON MOST PRODUCTIVE SPOTS: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Cape Cod, MA: 931 North New England Coast: 682 NY Bight to Raritan Bay, NJ: 601 Gardiner's Bay and Peconics, NY: 549 Eastern Sound, CT: 502 Rhode Island Shore and Narragansett Bay: 403 Montauk, NY 327 Chesapeake: 274
2023 SEASON MAP GotOne catches across Eastern United States and Caribbean (generalized to multi-mile increments)
2023 STRIPED BASS MIGRATION MAP GotOne striped bass catches along the northeastern Atlantic coastline by week and size (generalized to multi-mile increments)
MOST PRODUCTIVE WEEKS: All species: ● October 22-28 (Week 43) waxing gibbous moon ● October 8-14 (Week 41) waning crescent moon ● October 15-21 (Week 42) waxing crescent moon
Striped bass: ● October 22-28 (Week 43) waxing gibbous moon ● October 15-21 (Week 42) waxing crescent moon ● October 1-7 (Week 40) waning gibbous moon
MOST PRODUCTIVE TIDE STAGES:
OPTIMAL WATER TEMPERATURES FOR STRIPED BASS IN FOUR REGIONS:
Luyen’s first-ever permit caught in Ascension Bay, Mexico, March 2023
May, NJ shore. Captain Tom’s personal best striped bass on fly. 45 pounds! Sandy Hook Outfitters
42-inch striped bass caught by Mike Hogan in Cape Cod Bay on May 26, 2023 with Capt. Terry Nugent Riptide Charters Saltycape and Hogy Lure Company
Captain David Blinken with a monster bluefish on the flats on Long Island, NY in June North Flats Guide Service
Mark Sedotti with a nice yellowfin tuna caught on light tackle in August on the Chousen One
Tom with his first-ever fly-caught redfish on the flats in North Carolina in September
Beili and Conner with a pair of nice false albacore off the Rhode Island shoreline in October
SEASONS GREETINGS to our great partners, including:
…And most of all to all of YOU, our wonderful GotOne users! (No spots were burned in the making of this almanac. All locations generalized to multi-mile increments)