Stars and Striped Fish

It's funny ya know, people are always asking me "hey, old man, how do Fishing the Vineyard kids ceremonialize their sovereign autarchy from the United Kingdom?" Well Kevin, parades and fireworks are great, but the best way to rub it in the face of the monarchy is to go out and get our hands on something that they lost their rights to at the surrender of Yorktown; the brown clown. Sorry Cornwallis and company, but once you were besieged at the battle of the Chesapeake these became ours. You can come back and visit them, but it will cost you roughly $600 a day. Oh, and by the way, our infant democracy has grotesquely mismanaged them so they're much smaller and harder to catch than you remember. Sucka. Fishing on Cayo Martha remains pretty good, and with the weekend crowds sailing back to the mainland soon I'd anticipate that it will maintain vitality for some time to come.


"Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?"

WBC
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Dukes County Sight Casters Report

Mister from Pensyl-hio asks, "Hey, old man, summer's here and the close star is emitting that telltale twinkle, what have the Dukes County Sight Casters been getting into?" Well Mister, we've been pushing the big rig around a variety of submerged terra firma, including but not limited to light, dark and patch bottom, finding good numbers of grabby brown clown and double diamond difficult wrasse. Pictured in this spread are Christopher from Falmouth, David from behind the airport, Scott from Trout Unlimited, Michael from the nutmeg state, the author, the brown clown and the coveted fly caught, sight cast, tog wrasse, a potential world record none the less. Congratulations Christopher. I'm very pleased with the current fishing trend on Cayo Martha, hopefully it holds up for us.
Last week I had the opportunity to fish with some interesting folks, Rob and crew who own and operate a website on the island called What's Up Martha. If you know me, you know that I truly believe hyper-local web based content to be the future of media. These guys are riding that wave and riding it well. They also did a nice little write up about their day out fishing with the old man, which you can view here. Thanks for that guys.

"Compass card is spinning, Helm is swinging to and fro"

W. Brice Contessa
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Fishing the Vineyard Report

When the Surfmaster from Dark Woods woke up on Sunday he thought he'd go out for a friendly aboard F/V Gut Feeling with the guy from Coops and Al and Maggie from Chase. Heck, he thought he might even get a nice doormat. Don't think he bargained for the whole rug. A tourista from the great white north commented that he didn't know we had halibut here. Neither did I. Congratulations to Captain and crew on a truly magnificent achievement. The striped fish have been hitting the deck as well. It's like, what can't this guy do?





Aboard the Blue Wail the fishing has been sometimes fast, sometimes slow, always colorful of course. Pictured above are Nicole from the aloha state, the author and the brown clown. When she's not teaching classes or kayak guiding in Volcano National, Nicole can be found floating around Cayo Martha, shredding on topwater. Pretty work Nicole.



A note to the striped fish. Beware. If your not careful when swimming by the kids you may wind up panko encrusted over a bed of udon, in a shitake miso broth. Good for us, for you not so much.

"Never could read no road map, No I don't know what the weather might do"

WBC
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Fishing the Vineyard Report

Standing the precipice of the Solstice, it seemed like one last photo tessellation from the vernal season would be opportune. Incredibly fun weekend as always with the StriperFest crew. Fly fishing on the enclave in the ocean has been relatively robust as of late, with the brown clown falling victim to various methodologies. These include, but are not limited to, sight casting and open water fishing.

"Wishin' every month of the year could be June"

W. Brice Contessa
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Fishing the Vineyard - Mid - June - Synopsis

Bill from Jackson drew a tough day. An old adage dictates that when the wind is from the north, wise anglers don't go forth. That's all well and good, but striped fish season is only a few months long, so generally Fishing the Vineyard kids go anyway. Plus sometimes we hammer on a north. This day not so much, but we did prove that persistence pays. "Thanks for being there partner."









Phil from Toronto proved to be an interesting case study. I fish a lot of strong anglers, and Phil stands amongst any of them. His skill set translates nicely to the potato farm and the skinny patch bottom, which is convenient for him, less so for the brown clown. Pretty work Phil.








And sometimes the sun-dog comes. And then the kids begin to whisper. Pictured in this montage are the author and the Jimmy Crab. What can you even say about Jimmy. Look at the lips. Look at the slime. Truly you are the Obi Wan to our Skywalker.

WBC