Ultimate Kayak Fishing: Fishing With Drew - Ultimate Kayak Fishing

Sunday Fishing;

Nils, Chick, Drew (a kayak fishing visitor from Australia) and I went out Sunday AM on Chicks boat with the intent of getting Drew on as many species possible.

Two Saturday kayak outings were hampered by bad weather and locations. Drew phoned his wife and daughter in New York City and got an extra day by releasing the credit card and sent them shopping. We decided that a power boat would give us a better chance at several species so we made plans to leave Noank at 6:30 Sunday morning.

We left the harbor and motored directly to Race Rock Lighthouse hoping for Albies. We found them and Blues blitzing from the lighthouse to the West end of Fishers. There were lots of boats and one lone kayaker catching Blues and Albies.

The Albies were gorging themselves on Bay Anchovies and the guys with Fly Rods were catching them on almost every cast. With no fly rods on board we were catching mostly Blues on green or white Deadly Dicks with a very few Albies in the mix. Drew caught two species there so after 2 hours we sadly left fish to pursue a 3rd.

On out to Valiant Rock to try for a Striper. No Stripers there, only big Blues. A phone call from a fishing buddy that was on a school of Stripers with Albies mixed in. we packed up and moved to the South side of Pine Island to find the Stripers very accommodating. Drew now had his 3rd species.

We packed up again and motored out to the Dumplings to catch our supper. Upon arrival we met a few of our fishing buddies and anchored among them and proceeded to bounce Green Crabs among the rocks enticing Tattog. Seems that Drew was the best Tog fisherman on the boat as he was the only one that managed to boat any whitechins (2 of them) along with several of those pesky Porgies. Sadly, we had to leave and get our visitor to the train station and back to NYC and his family.

We managed to get our visitor a "Super Slam" of 5 species in one outing and best of all memories of Long Island Sound fishing that will be with him for a long while.

Here is one image to tease you all

That's great to hear Drew had a successful time in CT. I'm sure he was really excited to get onto 5 different kinds of fish.

I can personally attest to the fine hospitality and talent for getting "out of townahs" on fish.

Nils, DonO and DonM are the best!

Drew, please stop by and write up your story soon, and have a safe trip back home.

wow.. that is a great day of fishing right there! kudos to you all for showing Drew a great time! lets hope his CC balance didn't go up too much in NYC! ;-) sorry the weather didn't work out for kayaking on Saturday!

I've got to say, the word hospitality has been redefined as I know it.

To be treated the way I have in the 3 days spent with Nils and the guys, makes me wonder that maybe I did something right in a past life.
My stay with you all in Mystic/Stonington... such a beautiful part of the world, will be in my thoughts for many moons to come.
So many thanks particularly to DonO as well as Chick for their dogged determination to get me on to the fish I was lucky enough to catch.
To Tommy for his efforts on the evening attempt also.(very impressive helmsman ship next to that rip too)
DonM for a comfortable place to stay, good company and some entertaining banter with the others.

And especially Nils.
One of nature's true gentlemen. Letting me have his new Adventure and his fishing gear for as long as I needed, as well as driving me everywhere....I'm so indebted. Oh and such good company.
Here is somebody who has enabled me to have great faith in human nature and to go with my instincts of trust from our very first communication.
There was always a chance we could have let it not happen. However, Nils' gesture to host my visit whilst hardly knowing me, is the measure of somebody special.
I'll look forward to the opportunity to reciprocate in Australia mate.

My own post will be up in a week on one or two of our forums, so I'll keep you all in the loop.
Until then, my best regards to all.
Drew

Well said, Drew.

They are all a very special group of guys.. great talent and sincere generosity of spirit.

Fishing in Stonington is not to be missed. I share your sentiments and also hope to meet you someday.