Seacoast New Hampshire Sportfishing

Valued clients:
Having survived the recent snowstorm and power outage – hope you did too – I’d like to convey my sincere THANKS for another great season here on the Seacoast. I’m proud to report that 100% of our charters this year caught striped bass! We also landed the largest striped bass from Rye Harbor for [...]

Boy oh boy, what a great finish. We seem to be finishing this season just like it started: warm, lots of bait, and lots of stripers.
As the season winds down I can start uncrossing my fingers, as we have yet to be skunked! This week was classic fall pattern, tightly packed, hungry fish that would [...]

We continue to experience pretty steady fishing, albeit accompanied by some rain and fog. As September winds down the water continued to be quite warm – 65 degrees last evening – which coupled with the larger amount of mackerel inshore may prompt the fish to hang around a while. Let’s hope!
Most of our fish this [...]

While the weather is proving to be a challenge this September (almost said “Fall” – but we have TWO more days of summer yet to go!), the fishing remains good. Mackerel are still inshore, and the bass hungry.
Although bluefish seem to have vacated, we never rule them out with the amount of bait inshore.
The bait [...]

OK so here we go: last week Irene, this week Katia (with that Lee guy…) and now for the coming weekend – MARIA! UGH!!

Well, this is fishing. I thank you folks who have already been good about rescheduling, and look forward to getting out there as NOW IS THE TIME. Mega full moon as I [...]

With good  riddance to Irene, the weather was blessedly calm during the week, allowing seas to moderate and water to clear a bit. The from nowhere comes this large southerly swell – nowhere to hide and never allowing you to turn your back. Ugh!
I’ve elected to forego nite trips until this swell drops, as it’s [...]

Back from family vacation – the final portion cancelled by Irene. Wow, what a blow. The pictures below show how big the seas were – yes that’s Straw’s Point in the right hand shot.
As often happens the day after is a far different ocean. Flat calm, stirred up, but on a path back to normal.
Fishing [...]

Well here we are, mid August, still catching mackerel – and TROPHIES!
Quick report before heading out on several weeks of family vacation – be back end of month.
We’ve got some good fish around, and at least in recent days a pause in the bluefish assaults.  Last night’s full moon and meteor shower was great – [...]

Truth in reporting: I had the misfortune of fishing the two slowest days of the week this week. Colleagues had some fine numbers thru Thurs, then…
We fished hard for two stripers on Sat morning, and could not cajole a bluefish despite the warm water and abundant bait. On Sunday the monsoon forced us in early, [...]

Greetings from Fish Central…
In an all too familiar pattern, our fishing this week took a temporary hit from the frontal passage’s westerly blow – then came right back as soon as the breeze turned onshore again. I think the pictures tell the story. The first few was a great father-son team who worked hard amongst [...]