Fishing Forecast
What does it matter if Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog has predicted 6 more weeks of winter when it feels like winter still hasn’t even started? It’s been another week of unseasonably warm weather that has provided excellent open-water opportunities, comfortable conditions aboard cod and ling party boats, and even some striped bass in the surf for New Jersey anglers. You’ll have to travel to northern New England if you want to fish through a hole in the ice; ice fishermen in Maine are reporting excellent pike catches and a good run of smelt in the rivers.
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Recent Forecasts
February 02, 2012
Writing these reports each week, I’m starting to feel like Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, which, coincidentally, is today. If you haven't seen the movie, Bill Murray relives the same exact day over and over again, which is exactly what Cape Cod fishermen have been doing for the past few weeks. It's been too warm for ice, but too cold for most anglers to bother fishing. Not that the fishing is bad – in fact, it's pretty good, at least for largemouth bass.... Read More
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February 02, 2012
At the Somerset Fly Fishing Show last week, I had about a half-dozen anglers come up and show me cell phone pictures of surf-caught stripers from that week. Late January, keeper-sized, surf-caught stripers. It was all I could do not to grab a pair of waders from one of the vendors and check out this unusually good winter surfcasting.... Read More
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February 02, 2012
G. Loomis made the expression “fear no fish” famous, but lately I’m in fear of fowl. I’ve been hearing the honking of geese at a Greater Boston pond where they departed in November. And on Thursday I witnessed the return of mergansers! I wonder if they are onto something. Fortunately they’re still ice fishing out west and they are drilling through 12 inches of ice in Maine.... Read More