YANKEE FLEET PATRIOT CHARTER- FUN DAY OF FISHIN!
REBECCA, NICK CURTIS, TRACEY, AND I HAD A BALL FISHING WITH YANKEE FLEET DEEP SEA FISHING! JUST WATCH! LOL
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In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony set aside the rocky land beyond the Annisquam, and named it Gloucester. The new settlers homesteaded and fished, but the area was also thickly wooded, so initially timber, not fish, was Gloucester’s primary export. It was so important that in 1667 settlement in the area that was to become Rockport over a century later was forbidden, in order to protect the forest.
About 40 of these early settlers built houses in the heart of Cape Ann in an area called Dogtown, a place of myth and mystery even today. In the 1700s it was occupied by some of our wealthiest citizens, and provided a safe refuge from both the occasional pirate and marauding French and British ships. By 1830 its last inhabitant had been taken away to the Poor Farm and nothing now remains of this once thriving community but the cellar holes. During the Great Depression local philanthropist Roger W. Babson hired out-of-work stone cutters to carve inspirational sayings into 23 of the large boulders dotting the area. At the same time he donated 1,150 acres of Dogtown to the City of Gloucester for use as a park and watershed, which currently offers rich recreational opportunities to hikers, bikers, dog-walkers, cross-country skiers, horseback riders and nature lovers.
Gloucester also had a good safe harbor with easy access to the rich off shore fishing grounds, so over time, as the trees became less plentiful, the major industry gradually changed to fishing and foreign trade. In 1713 the schooner, which became the country’s foremost fishing vessel for more than 200 years, was first designed and built in Gloucester. By the early 1800s shipbuilding was increasing and the fishing fleet was traveling to the Grand Banks after halibut. In 1879 alone there were almost 450 fishing vessels in town employing over 5,000 men catching more than 91million pounds of cod, haddock, halibut, hake, pollock, mackerel and herring. Sometimes you could not see the water in the harbor for the vessels moored there. But all this came with a price. That same year was devastating for the Gloucester fleet. Thirty-two vessels and 266 men were lost, half of them in a single February storm. In 1883 the young fisherman Howard Blackburn, adrift in his dory in a raging snow storm, rowed towards land for five days, his hands frozen to the oars. He survived the ordeal but lost all his fingers. Despite this handicap he later sailed single-handed across the Atlantic in his sloop Great Western (which can be visited at the Cape Ann Museum). The names of 5,368 lost fishermen are inscribed on 9 bronze plaques where the famous Fisherman at the Wheel statue stands looking out to sea. Gloucester fishermen continue to brave the seas today, making the city the oldest fishing community in the nation.
Gloucester has a thriving cultural heritage too. Books have been written and movies made of and in Gloucester (among them Kipling’s Captain’s Courageous and Junger’s The Perfect Storm), and the city is featured in the popular TV series Wicked Tuna. Rocky Neck, home to one of the oldest working Art Colonies in America, protects the inner harbor. There, artists like Theresa Bernstein, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Frederick J. Mulhaupt and many others found both a home and inspiration.
Family Fun in Gloucester, Ma
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Eastmans Fishing Fleet 2013
A compilation of all the GoPro videos taken over the summer, Come fish with us!
Eastman's Fishing Fleet out of Seabrook,NH
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Gov.-elect Baker meets with Gloucester fishermen
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Eastern Rig Dragger Joffre Shipwreck in the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary
Archaeologists have identified the remains of the eastern rig dragger Joffre in over 300 feet of water off Gloucester, MA in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Joffres extant remains consisted of its lower hull structure, propulsion components, vessel hardware, and fishing gear. The Joffre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more information on the shipwreck visit:
Courtesy of NOAA/SBNMS and NURC-UConn.
Whale Watch Cape Cod 2016
Whales, Dolphin Fleet
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Slide show. Fish. Cod Haddock, pollock, red fish
Best Whale Watching Cape Cod - Dolphin Fleet Review & Pilgrim Monument
Friendly Review of Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch Provincetown and the Pilgrim Monument and Pilgrim Museum in Provincetown. We visited Cape Cod Massachusetts in July 2017 and wanted to go on a whale watch. The Dolphin Fleet is well priced and has a lot of departure times. We saw a lot of whales (9 in total) diving, spy hopping, lob tailing, spout breathing, and a lot of breaching (chin breaching, and whole whales jumping out of the water). The was the best whale watch tour that we could have asked for. (with the exception of seeing a bubble net, but I won't complain) I hope your experience is as good as ours was.
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May 4, 2015 New England Fishing Report with Toby Lapinski
We added a pair of new articles to the website last week. The first addresses the ever-popular topic of proper release techniques. While the concept of catch and release is a good one, it is critical that it be practiced properly. We have provided a list of general rules to follow to best ensure a successful release regardless of your target species.
Next up is a very timely topic in that it addresses the use of clams for spring striped bass. While the lowly clam is considered more for targeting bottom dwellers like cod, scup and flounder in our waters, New England anglers would be well-advised to take a page from our friends to the south and give this technique a try right now. I am sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results.
Connecticut
• Since the holdover striper bite is pretty well-known by now I am going to instead mention the biggest surprise fishery of the year and that has been the excellent winter flounder action being found in places like the Niantic River as well as the waters around Norwalk Harbor. Both Fisherman’s World and Hillyer’s Tackle report some good catches being made, and while you may only retain 2 fish per angler, this is a great way to top off a day of targeting other species as a fresh flounder dinner is tough to beat! If you’re looking for some tips on how to land a flounder, check out the excellent how-to video on TheFisherman.com, Early-Season Flounder Techniques with Captain Al Lorenzetti. Oh, and for a direct link to the video one of those cards that I mentioned earlier is available to my left.
Rhode Island
• From Newport to Watch Hill, striped bass have begun to spread out of their wintering grounds and move into the salt. Fisherman subscriber Gil Bell checked-in over the weekend to report landing a bunch of schoolies to about 26 inches along the oceanfront and Robin from Quonny Bait and Tackle reports bass to the high 30-inch class landed around Charlestown on Daiwa SP Minnows.
Massachusetts
• The Yankee Fleet, sailing out of Gloucester, made their first trip of the year this past week and report finding solid action on haddock with a good catch of pollock and cusk to top things off. They want to let fishermen know that while the cod fishery may be closed in the Gulf of Maine, there are plenty of other groundfish to target this season so be sure to give them a look. Lastly Captain Jason Colby of Little Sister Charters began sailing for flounder last week and while the first trip was very slow, each subsequent trip showed improvement over the last. I’ll be fishing with Jason on Tuesday this week so look out for my report in next week’s video.
Striped Bass in Gloucester, MA. May 15, 2015
New England Fishing // Stellwagen Bank Haddock // Episode 111
Whale watching off Cape Ann
Faith and I had a wonderful time chronicling our whale-watching adventure off Cape Ann (between Gloucester and Rockport) in June 2010. Wait for the fluke!
Whale Watching June 20, 2014
We took a trip up to Gloucester (or Glasta as the locals say) to go on a whale watching tour. The tour took us about 20 miles east of Cape Ann, Mass. to the Stellwagen Bank. Once we arrived at the bank the Humpback Whales were everywhere! We saw at least 20 different whales according to our tour guides. We also saw nearly every single type of surface behavior these whales exhibit including bubble netting, dragging, pectoral slapping, tail slapping, breaching, and many others.
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A tour of Gloucester Ma. Enjoyed finding and re-discovering my old stomping grounds.
fish'n , Gloucester Ma
fishing with my cousin Darren Hart out of Gloucester Mass. 10/27/2009
April 5, 2018 New England Fishing Report with Toby Lapinski
This week marks the first weekly issue of The Fisherman Magazine for the 2018 print schedule. This means that from now through Thanksgiving, subscribers to The Fisherman will receive a magazine in their email and/or mailbox every single week. And while you’re not going to see a random-generated digital chart of where you can expect to find the stripers each week based on the date on the calendar, what you will get is the most accurate and up-to-date LOCAL fishing reports for your area topped off with a selection of timely fishing articles and news items each and every week for the next 34 weeks. Just remember, this is only available for subscribers. If you’re used to picking up The Fisherman Magazine at your local news stand then you’re missing out on 26 of the 38 total issues that we print each year.
Looking forward to the weekend, first up on the agenda we have the final fishing show of the 2018 season, the Northeast Fishing & Hunting Show at the Hartford Convention Center. You can find The Fisherman Magazine at booth #104 which is on the right immediately after entering the main doors. I will be there both Friday and Saturday, and I hope to you as well.
Moving into the fishing forecast for the weekend, for those who prefer popcorn trail forecasts, my 5-year-old son indicates that some big bass can be found somewhere between Manchester, NH and roughly the southern edge of Hudson Canyon. Now he wasn’t willing to divulge the size of the stripers being caught, but you’d be well-advised to grab your rod and get out there and hit the water before the school moves on or gets eaten by Godzilla. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as he updates the map with his real-time findings.
On a serious note, I spotted my first school of river herring last week in a local Connecticut run and got word from several sources that a few other runs across the state also have herring in them. You can check out a short video clip of the herring which I posted on our Facebook page last week. This influx of larger bait in the tidal rivers has spiked the holdover striped bass action with some really good catches made in recent days. The bigger bass continue to fall to night time anglers fishing deep with soft plastics like the JoeBaggs Patriot Fish and Freedom Fish, but as the waters warm the bite will improve on plastic swimmers and even topwater by day.
I am still awaiting the first locally confirmed catch of a winter flounder or blackfish. As I noted in last week’s video, I put out a little bounty for the first photographic evidence of a catch on both species. To recap, I’m offering both a featured reference in a weekly video as well as a special congratulations package for the photo emailed to me at tlapinski@thefisherman.com. To confirm that this is a new fish picture and you’re not rehashing last year’s fish, simply put up 3 fingers on one hand as your “proof” of it being a fresh fish.
I talked to the crew up at the Yankee Fleet in Gloucester this week, and they wanted me to remind everyone that they kick off the 2018 fishing season on April 15 at 7 AM. The primary target will be haddock and last year’s regulations remain in effect. They will then be sailing every say on both 7-4 trips as well as 1- and 2-day overnight marathon trips going forward from there. You can see Capt. Tom this weekend at the Hartford show for some exclusive discounts, or you can buy your tickets right now on their website.
bryce at breakwater
about 1.4 mi into a 3.12 mi swim from Niles Beach to Dogbar Breakwater - Gloucester, MA - June 30, 2012
Andy catching a Cod at Stellwagon Bank, Cape Cod MA
My friend Andy catching his first ocean fish ever, a nice sized Cod. We were fishing in about 200 feet of water at Stellwagon Bank.