Dick’s Bait and Tackle

We spoke with Steve from Dick’s Bait and Tackle who said now that the Derby is over there is much more attention turned toward the tog fishing. They have crabs, jigs and information as to where along the north shore you can find a bucktooth tog willing to give you all you can handle in those gnarly rockpiles. He had a few bones in the harbor the day before and there are still customers out chasing albies and bones in numerous spots around the island.

We spoke with Doug from Dick’s Bait and Tackle who said the Derby was ending that evening and the awards ceremony was to be held on Sunday. Loads of prizes, one of them a brand new Jeep along with loads of other awards will be presented. It’s always a big party on Grand Prize day. The fishing has been on the slow side with the storm at the end of the week putting a halt on most of the boat travel. There was a bonito blitz in Vineyard Haven Harbor on Friday morning with loads of 5-pound bones busting on bait. For a few nights this past week they had small blues breaking along sections of the south shore and there was a report of a 47-inch bass released from the Oak Bluffs jetty this week. Steve and Doug put their time in and were pleased that so many of their customers participated and registered fish, including the new state record albie caught by one of their longtime customers.