Fishing the Vineyard Report 07/10/2010

The crispy forehead pictured above is Mayor Weld from Bronxville. This cat likes to spend his time away from work gassing Stoli, losing his sandals, and getting in altercations with azure beasties like the one featured here. Fishing on the Vine remains relatively consistent at the current juncture. The water is getting warm now, and folks are already starting to talk about green fish...no confirmed kills that I know of yet but I bet that's gonna change sooner rather than later.

Tune in, turn off, drop out...

W. Brice Contessa
www.fishingthevineyard.com

Dukes County Sight Casters Report 07/07/2010

Pictured in this spread is long time Fishing the Vineyard friend, contributor, and worthy tournament adversary, Mister from Pennsyl-hio. This full time fly pole junkie splits his year between chasing chrome in the lake Erie tribs and pounding the beaches of campus mothership with striped fish on the brain. I gotta say, he's pretty good at all this briny shit, especially for being from fly over country. He's also pretty hard to read generally, but I'm pretty sure he had a good time.

Till next we dance...

Capt. W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Dukes County Sight Casters Report 07/06/2010

To anyone who comes into contact with me lately, my passionate love for El Nino is surely as palpable as my libidinous disdain for windmills. Hot, calm, sunny, stable weather. Mid day lows. Heaven. Pictured in this spread are Stu and Kim who came all the way from the beaver state to go for a fish on the mothership. Make no mistake class, the last couple of club outings for the Dukes County Sightcasters have been met with mixed results. If it was easy Kevin, everybody would be doin' it. Loads of toads grubbin' pink food...got that. Sometimes feeling like I'm fishing at the bottom of the exit ramp off the Mayflower...got that too. It's funny watching a 20 plus sliding down the flat lookin' for ladies, only to have a nerf ball land on his head or split window blow through and try to give it a hair cut. If you let that stuff piss you off it's gonna be a long summer, just gotta keep on keepin' on kids. But I digress. Good shit; touching a hand full, ogling a myriad. Great summer job...

Harmonious Equanimity,

Captain. W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Independednce Day Massacare

Lets be honest, nobody likes England. What better a way to celebrate 234 years independence from that bloated, priggish tyrannical kingdom across the pond than to partake in an activity as uniquely American as baseball and/or apple pie; bottom fishing. Pictured in this spread are Tommy and Robby from the MV east, Sophie from St. Louie, Brooke from Christmas Cove and Drew from Gotham. Even the sea robin tickler got into the fray right around hour 11, when he abandoned the bait station momentarily to cajole the prehistoric teradactyl of the deep pictured above. Today's bag was comprised of, but not limited to, a nice mix of left-eye Lopez, rockbass and split-rock porgy. The first drift over the digits yielded a triple hook-up and the fish of the day, the shag carpet displayed below by Sophie B. who was clearly a rug trader in another life. After a drift that productive all the souls on board are thinking the same thing; this is gonna be a sick brown-out Cap, obviously I should shoot my neighbor a text and make sure that little bastard makes some room in his freezer for the bag I'm bringing over. Sadly though, the rest of the day played out more like the Boston Massacre than the Battle of Yorktown for our militia of guerilla fluke fighters. 3 more drifts were met mostly with by-catch, shorts and a few more button keepers for the box. Soon, the crew was tattered and exhausted and the leadership decided that in order to avoid a Valley Forge type scenario that it would be best for Captain Tommy to hurl F/V Tuna Helper back through the sound like a silver dollar across the Potomac. He did, and the crew was rewarded with fish tacos and cold barley sodas. Happy fourth of July...




















God Bless America,

Captain W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com

Dukes County Sight Casters Report 06/30/2010

Waited on the wind to come down 'till 1 PM today...never did. Ended up getting out for a quick afternoon push with Backwater Trading Co's own Patty-Boy, who promptly demonstrated why those qualified to fish above it all will be rewarded with great visual stimulation and slamming. We only saw a couple of other fish...conditions were complete shit despite the sun, and we called it early because we were freezing our tuckus' off.

Captain W. Brice Contessa
www.contessaflyfishing.com