Anthony Farino Jr. first ever Stripped Bass on 9/9/05. 36 inches and 19lbs. Caught in the Fire Island Beach Inlet, off of Sore Thumb. Using Clam.

8/24/2005

Well we had a busy day yesterday - 46 fish (South shore cocktail of
Fluke, Seabass and porgies.) 8 Keepers including Anthony's Doormat -
See you on the water!!

Barry
Life's Bigger

8/19/2005

Chad Richardson caught this Bluefin Tuna on a 9 weight fly rod just off of Kismet Fire Island.

Jim O'Brien

August 4, 2005

Dr. Robert Pollina and his crew of family and friends fished south of the fish tails 70 miles off Montauk on their family boat “RHONDABETH” a 48’ Southern Cross. Within 10 minutes of lines in, a white marlin was spotted and successfully baited with a skirted ballyhoo, the fish spit the large 9-0 hook as did 3 other different white marlin attempts. While lamenting our lost attempts at those whites a large blue marlin crashed a hookless teaser dragged several feet from a transom cleat, ripping the huge skirt right off. She was lit up with fluorescent blue colors and again crashed a different lure, this time the large hooked skirted ballyhoo was just the right size…the beautiful fish ran full bore out in front of the boat greyhounding and jumping several times. We chased her at 30 knots for several minutes before getting the line and huge fish safely behind the boat.

The fish was safely hooked but on a 50TW reel attached to a Stalker outfitter stand-up 5’6” rod! To make matters more ironic, the last chore at the dock at 3:30am was to remove the foot of the fighting chair, assuming we wouldn’t need it, to give more room to fight any tuna stand-up. Nearly two hours later, after a grueling stand up fight marked by deep dives, the beautiful fish emerged behind the boat, sadly she had become tail wrapped causing extreme stress and died despite attempts at reviving her. We floated her into the boat for some pictures before delivering her back to her watery grave, likely making some sharks quite happy. It was a very emotional moment for the whole crew as she sank bill facing straight into the air. We estimated her weight at approx 500lbs with a fork length of 10 feet. The remainder of the long day trip produced several albacore tuna in the 50-60 pound range and a 50 pound wahoo to round out the trip. At 4:45pm, 15 minutes before lines in, we made one last pass very close to a lobster pot hoping to get a large mahi to jump on, as luck would have it, we got exactly that followed instantaneously by a huge blue marlin strike ripping the mahi off the lure. We were relieved that she wasn’t hooked as we planned to return back to Montauk by sunset. Warm water is amazing in producing these types of days in the northeast. We felt as though we were fishing the Bahamas.

Hope you enjoy the pictures and the story, Robert M. Pollina, MD

7-23-2005
I fished Saturday with my friend Dennis on his boat. We did very well bagging our limit of quality fish up to six pounds. Only two shorts were caught and our catch averaged 22" plus a bonus sea bass of a couple of pounds.

Only a couple of skates between the tides. A memorable day of fishing.

Bob

I fished on Monday July 11 with my dad and brother Kevin. We had a good day with some small bluefin tuna and some Blue Sharks. We ened up up just east of the yankee in some nice blue water and were successful. We had 2 blue sharks, one that was about 120 lbs and another that pushed 300 lbs. The second fish took just about an hour to get to the boat. It was a great day and with some time constraints we called it a day early around 2.
Paul Krause Jr

had bought the video two weeks ago and it was awsome. I watched it then gave it to my father for fathers day. He watched it with all his grandkids and they all loved it. I have given my father all the videos you guys have and he has watched them all over and over again. He was a clamer for 3 years going way back out of lindenhurst and is like a sponge when it comes to fishing. He's retired now but I think from watching all your videos he thinks Catain Al is his fishing buddy. Haha. I actually liked the last video so much that my friend Anthony and I booked a trip with Captain Al this last tuesday the 21st. We went on a full day charter and had one of the best fishing days of our lives. Captain Al even posted us on his web page. I couldn't believe there were that many bass so close to home. My next door neighbor is Captain Andy Buglione and when I talked to him later that night, he only had great things to say about Captain Al and what a great fisherman he is. Of course when I told him Captain Al hooked us up with bass up to 42 inches, a big smile came across his face.

Fished on Bob Coleman's 31 Yellowfin, Romp, last saturday in the South Shore Marlin and Tuna 6th annual Inshore Shootout. We snagged and drifted the bunker under some loose pods west of the Roda in 15-20 ft of water. These bass of 20, 32 and 22 lbs helped us take second place. Len Simonetti took first with some nice fluke and 5 seabass over 3 lbs on a piece near Moriches. pictured left to right, Bill Marvin, Bob Coleman , Russ Clark and Andrew Raggio.
Thanks for constantly updating and improving your site!
Andrew Raggio
Vice President, SSMTC

6/18/2005
On Saturday June 18 me and my brother Sean fished under the bunker in the ocean for these two bass. Sean's was 20 lbs, mine was 30 lbs.
-Ryan Brownyard