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Over the last month I've been hitting Block Island HARD...diving, fishing, filming, video, and even a little spearfishing. The place is filthy with fish beyond belief.
On many occasions I'm seeing thousands of fish and NO bait...which always warrants the question, why are they here?
More than once I've dropped in the water and have found dozens of nice stripers swirling around yet the anglers fishing live eels can't buy a fish. The fact is, they are there, they just won't eat...at least eels, at least right at that time. Other times, like last Saturday they wouldn't stop eating for five hours. We caught over 50 stripers with three over 40 (weighed) and another one suspected of being as large, 10 in the upper 30-pound range and the remainder of the fish in the mid to upper 20s. Epic fishing trip.
I will say that I think we outperformed almost every boat that was out there (30 to 50) because of one or two little maneuvers we were implementing. I'm certainly going to be highlighting these tips in techniques in the new DVD I'm working on.
Here's a shot of one of the fish from the weekend. It's hard to make a big fish look large next to the father and son team of Captain Wayne Wood and Travis...BIG BOYS!
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