Hey everyone, sorry if I have not gotten back to you if you called me. I have been in Ocean City Maryland in some tournaments, tuna trips and shark trips. I will be back by the second week in July for the smallmouth bass season and look forward to seeing everyone on the water again. I want to  thank everyone that came out for stripers this year, we ended up with 204 stripers that were over 28 inches and about 330 total stripers caught. I really had a blast fishing with everyone despite the high water and tough conditions. 

Has anyone Else notice the Cormorants this Season? I remember a day in April where I watched one Cormorant eat 9 herring in a row. He dove down and found a herring came to the surface and ate the Herring. These are the same herring that they are trying to restrict us the fishermen who live in this country from fishing for. Cormorants are not native to this land and they are an invasive species. We first started seeing them down the shore about 10 years ago. Their numbers have explode so much that are traveling inland and attack our river systems. They eat all our smallmouth bass, perch, baby stripers, herring, you name it they eat it. They will devastate our eco system in less then two years if we continue to allow them them to rape our fisheries. 

May 16th, Great morning of fishing. 7 Bass two bass 36, two 34, and some nice fat 32's-30's. Brendan fished with me 3 times and ended up with 23 Stripers. Thats a great average for the Delaware river and all his bass where in the 30 inch plus range.

Bait season is just about at the end of it's road. It's to catch them other ways. I can put you on stripers until fathers day. After that we are back to eels and fishing 3:00-7:00 am. 

The river is muddy and more rain is coming 

There is way to much bait in the river right now, this compounded with the full moon and big tides has thrown some fishing off. Over the weekend we ended up landing 15 fish in a three day total. Bite is tough but their are fish out there to be caught. The key is to have the experience to adapt to the changing conditions and be able to work hard and never give up.

Kristen and Randy got into fish early with bait being chased to the top of the water and being thrown in the air. We hooked 10 bass landed 6. All nice fish over 32 and some real nice ones mixed in pushing 36 inches. We must of had 20 run offs and a ton more short bites. It was a great day on the delaware river.

We caught 8 Stripers today in the mix of a rush hour jam. Mo and James landed a 36, pair of 34's and more. We had a about 15 run offs and broke the line on three. We also short release a beast of a fish, may have been the thickest fish I have seen in the upper river all year.

May 7, I ran out of gas today working extra hard for my clients, they were not on the boat! We worked are butts off to pick up 7-8 fish. dropped about 7 fish and broke off two. It's days like this that really makes me hate the attitude of fisherman at Trenton. Monkey see monkey do. When I work hard for fish I don't want you snaking my drifts. If you a guide and can't catch fish and your not one of my boats running then your sol. but what stops them from hawking me then beating my drift up. I guess it falls back to what a good fisherman is. My definition is someone who can find new techniques, be versatile in his style and locations, and someone who does not rely on others to catch fish. I just feel that the lack of respect for ones drifts, anchoring spots, or how people wake the hell out of you at Trenton is terrible. Where did all these fisherman come from anyway? Go back to cat fishing!

May 6