April 2017 Archives - The Fisherman

April 2017

2017 4 Texas Tower 4

Texas Tower #4

Most offshore guys know about the Texas Tower; she went ghost in the last two years as the NOAA offshore buoy #44066 that marked the location went adrift on January 11, 2015, was retrieved on the following day, and then finally redeployed on November 17, 2015.

Fluking New Year

Fluking in the New Year

As we wait to learn our fluke fate this month, here are a few summer flounder tips to tide you over until the first tides of 2017.

Summer Flounder Spring Overcome

Summer Flounder of Spring

As we wait to learn our fluke fate this month, here are a few summer flounder tips to tide you over until the first tides of 2017.

Springs Tackle Busting Blues Jetty Jocks

Spring’s Tackle Busting Blues

As you’re reading this, the arrival of marauding bluefish may already be underway somewhere between Indian River and the Raritan!

Pattagansett Lake

Pattagansett Lake, CT

Nestled between Upper Pattagansett Road to its north, and Route 1 to its south, Pattagansett Lake is a 128-acre, lazy-S-shaped body of water in East Lyme, Connecticut.

Looking to Freshwater

It’s about time that surfcasters started to steal some of the technology from our freshwater fishing brethren.

Spring Flatties New England

Spring Flatties in New England

Even with restrictive bag limits there are still places across New England where respectable catches of winter flounder can be made.

River-Run Stripers

A look at some of the lures and tactics for targeting the first fresh-run striped bass of the year in the tidal rivers.

Trout Time

As you will see, I didn’t end up with a local feature this month on trout fishing. I was back and forth on what to cover as trout fishing across New England is so varied in how, when and where it is practiced.

2017 4 Sealing The Deal

Sealing the Deal

Anyone who fishes the Northeast from Long Island north to the Cape during the late fall has noticed the increasing number of seals in these waters over the past decade.

2017 4 Noyack Bay

Noyack Bay

Nestled between the North Haven Peninsula and Jessup Neck and southward of the western end of Shelter Island and part of the Peconic Bay estuary sits Noyack Bay.