Fishing the Vineyard Report 06/16/2010

Pictured in this spread is Pam from Orlando. Her true passions in life are snapper and grouper on the Florida coast, but I have a feeling she'll be amending that to include stripes on the Vine after this morning's fish. We spent the beginning of the day farming the open water potato patches under the aviary, yielding a good harvest of slot fish on jerk baits. After we'd had our fill there, we slid up on the flat and poked this nice fatty on ultra light over a shallow patch reef. Pam can slam kids; hope to get her back out real soon.

Captain W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Dukes County Sight Casters Report 06/15/2010

Today's meeting of the Dukes County Sightcasters was greeted with bluebird skies and stiff northerly winds. Pictured in this spread is Highly Migratory Guide Services own Captain Mud-rat-detector. When he's not reading case law or hunting giants Tommy can be found up on the flats with his white gloves on, doing it with style. Around the middle of the day the scup whisperer even showed up and made his way down to the pointy end for a spirited sparring session with the striped fish. Fishing was good today; copious shots at nice sized targets that were looking to shanghai most anything we tied on. The water is a bit warmer now and the fishing seems to be taking a turn for the better. The next couple of weeks is about my favorite sightcasting stretch of the entire season; no where in the world I'd rather be.


Captain W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Dukes County Sight Casters Report 06/11/2010

Pictured here is Jason from outside lil' Compton. Today marked 8 June's that this cat and I have fished together. That means a couple of things. First, we're getting old. Second, we always have fun. The goatee is new, but the skill set is the same; solid. The life on the flats was a bit thinner today and the stripes were somewhat less aggressive then they have been over the course of the past week, but we still managed to go 4 off 5 and tossed at a load. Fish were on a wide variety of bottom and fly selection was less important than good presentation (no shit).

Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Fishing the Vineyard Report 06/09/2010

Good open water fishing this morning with West Chop's own Chip and Earl. The bass fishing was at it's strongest early, and we capped off the morning with a nice mix of bluefish and brownfish eating small bait in deep water. We tried to get on the flats after the action subsided, but by then the clouds were a major factor and we ended up seeing only a few which were not receptive to our advances. All and all a fun morning with a great father son team.

Brice Contessa
Fishing The Vineyard

CRABWOLF

This is a CRABWOLF. It's a close relative of the squid hound. Dukes County sight casting has been really strong so far this season. Nothing huge over the rail yet, but we pricked one yesterday with Davey up on the bow that was a good bit north of 3 feet long swimming in like 6 inches of water. Clearly one of the more rad things I've seen this year.

One Love,

Capt. W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com