A Fly Fishing Guide’s Busman’s Holiday

by Capt. A | Jun 15, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

So when the phone rings, and the voice on the oth­er end says “I’m a guide” and I’m won­der­ing if you have any avail­abil­i­ty tomor­row morn­ing for a “Busman’s hol­i­day”, the answer has to be YES!  At least it has to be yes when the voice is that of Eric...

Really Back In Action

by Capt. A | Jun 8, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

After and before the north­east­er, we got a nice day on the water cast­ing at div­ing birds and slurp­ing stripers.  Most of the fish were on the small side, but a cou­ple of “rea­son­ably” sized fish showed up includ­ing this 30 inch­er, It was a good day on...

Back In Action

by Capt. A | Jun 6, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

After a long win­ter of repairs and replace­ment parts, the Gravy is back in the water and rid­ing high.  In fact, she can now reach a top speed of 43 mph, a pin­na­cle that she he hasn’t reached in many years. As for fish­ing, that’s the goal.  Barn­sta­ble...

Pretty Fly Taking a Ride

by Capt. A | May 18, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

  This fly was real­ly just along for the ride as today was an atyp­i­cal live-bait day orches­trat­ed by my friend Bran­don. Nev­er­the­less, today’s first super hot day felt like a mid-July day with the stripers down deep on the bot­tom.  No sur­face...

Spring Fishing

by Capt. A | Apr 21, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports, Cape Cod Weather Reports

Spring fish­ing is around the cor­ner, how­ev­er, if you go out­side today you’d won­der why.  It’s chilly.  And windy.   Oh yeah, that’s a Cape Cod spring. The whales are in the bay.  Right whales in record num­bers.  The her­ring are...

Gravy undergoes a Renovation

by Capt. A | Apr 5, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

As many of you know, last spring my fuel tank went bad.  Last sum­mer I ran the boat with a 12 gal­lon portable fuel tank.  There were many trips to the fuel dock as 12 gal­lons of gas was enough for two trips, but not enough for two trips and peace of mind....

Fishing Show

by Capt. A | Mar 9, 2017 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

Almost what­ev­er tomorrow’s weath­er, you will find me in Prov­i­dence at the New England Saltwater Fishing Show - St. Croix Fishing Rods  Stop by and check what’s new at St. Croix Fish­ing Rods. Hope to see you there!...

Menhaden finning

by Capt. A | Sep 12, 2016 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

This morn­ing their were finning men­haden all over the mari­na.  They resem­bled small bone­fish.  Wel­come to fall on Cape...

Beach Picnic

by Capt. A | Aug 1, 2016 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

The pic­ture kind of says it all.  Sum­mer at its...

Bahamanian Fishing Day

by Capt. A | Jul 20, 2016 | Cape Cod Fishing Reports

Thanks to the out­board motor gods, and Brian’s Out­boards, we were back in action yes­ter­day with Bahami­an fish­ing guide Meeko and his son Big Mike as clients. It was a role-rever­sal for Meeko, how­ev­er he filled the client shoes well, and yes! he can both see...