Giant Tuna off New Hampshire

The Kodiak out of Wentworth in Rye slayer their second bluefin tuna of the year this week. I can't wait to get out there with them next week!

835 pounds

The first one was caught by a 72 year old!

Tuna Fishing New Hampshire

Congratulations to Dick D slaying this 100 inch Tuna at 74 years old! Nice work Mike and Garth on the Kodiak!!

Schoolie Stripers

Catching striped bass on light tackle and 8/9 weight fly rods is always a good time!

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Slamming Schoolies on the Fly

Fly fishing for stripers is always a good time, especially before work on a weekday!

Tuna Fishing

Share the numbers and we share our beer. Tuna fishing in New England.

Marking them...

Dolphin vs Snook

Snook fishing in Florida can be fun. Check out this awesome footage of a dolphin doing some snook fishing of his own!

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Pressure Guruz Lake Okeechobee Bass Busters Tournament Aug 23, 2014 Florida

Lake Okeechobee, Florida and it's famous largemouth bass fishing from Pressure Guruz!
Go git em, Danny Shaw @dannyjshaw22


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Snook Slay from Paul Gozzo

This Florida Snook was landed by Paul Gozzo on a recent fishing trip to the backcountry.

Pressure Guruz South Florida Fishing - Lake Okeechobee- June 19, 2014

A great video of a couple of good ole South Florida locals slaying largemouth bass on Lake Okeechobee.

Nice work @dannjshaw22 and Pressure Guruz!



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Paul Gozzo's Secret Snook Spot

Paul Gozzo loves to find new snook fishing locations in Jupiter and Palm Beach, Florida

Shark Fishing in Florida from Jupiter Beach

This marks day two of a three day shark fishing tournament featuring fishing from the beach only in Jupiter, Florida

Fishing for Pompano in Jupiter, Florida with Paul Gozzo

Mid December Pompano slay! Somewhere in Jupiter, Florida...

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Pike on a Powell fishing rod

Bass Fishing from a Boat by: Paul Gozzo

Last Saturday was the first time in my life that I (Paul Gozzo) ever bass fished from a boat and it was everything I every thought it would be and then some. Growing up in New England I had only fished ponds and small lakes or shallow rivers from the bank or shoreline. So when I migrated to south Florida, I kept up that practice whenever I would try a new pond. My curiosity had been getting to me though and lately I found myself creating a list of things to do in Florida before I move out of town next year and largemouth bass fishing from a boat found its way to my list!



So when my pal Tommy suggested we take a ride out of Sanford, Florida with one of his old buddies, I jumped at the opportunity.

The night before I attended a wedding in Titusville, Florida and had to crack up at myself for dreaming of delicious bass during those wedding moments when people are usually crying; the bride entering, the first dance, the cutting of the cake, etc. Every time I would have a moment not marred down in conversation, I would think of bass. Needless to say, that night, I could barely sleep. At one point I was even laughing at myself at how ridiculous this was, how excited I was, acting like a little kid.

The entire ride to our meeting spot in the morning was dark and vacant. I didn't even listen to music. Instead, I spaced out remembering all the large bass I have caught over the years and where I was when I caught them, who I was with, and what kind of lure I caught the fish on. I had some great thoughts and memories on that ride as it is any time I reflect back on my days on the water, or from the shore, over the years. Fishing has brought me to so many beautiful places and helped me to forge so many wonderful relationships, I will forever be thankful to the hobby of fishing.

We all gathered at the dock a few minutes before 6 am last Saturday.....

And the rest is history.

Another day fishing, this time a little different style (from the bass boat), but the same old story. A great day with images burned into my memory of good friends and fish.



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Paul Gozzo Asks: Fisherman or Angler?

Fisherman or Angler?

“Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”

No, this is not a blog about the famous Biblical truth.

I want to address the question of fisherman vs. angler? See how you match up?

A fisherman “figures it out”. He embarks on a journey to figure out how to catch fish. For most fisherman, the journey begins the day before and often times, weeks out. As Ted Williams, ya that Ted Williams, the Hall of Fame baseball player who was also an accomplished fisherman, once said something to the extent of, “ often times the biggest fish are caught the night before”.

For example, fly fishing for trout in a New England stream or wild Western River requires some knowledge and experience the latter of which is absolutely necessary to actually becoming successful at the fly fishing endeavor. Outside the obvious needs like transportation, rod, reel, waders etc. the fisherman must learn to read the water  to determine the highest probability of where a fish will be and then to study the water to determine where to cast in order to drift his fly naturally by where a fish most likely will be. Of course, all of this is after choosing the right fly, or in many cases the correct version of that fly and appropriate size as well as the size of the tippet at the end of the leader. All of this and more goes into the fishing experience.

Angling on the other hand, is what you do after you hook the fish. A good fly fishing angler will choose both where to cast from, so as to give himself the best chance to naturally present the fly to the fish, and also where he will position himself in the river to then fight and release the fish once it is hooked so as not to disrupt the pool the put the other fish “down” where they will become inactive. That angler thinks of the other fisherman and his potential to catch more fish from the same pool as well as his probability of landing the fish he is actually casting too all before making his initial cast.

On the saltwater, often times it takes 2-3 people working together on a boat to find, hook, and land a fish. Boat preparation takes time and effort. Rod and reels must be prepared including the testing and setting of the drag well ahead of time before the boat even leaves the dock. When a big game fish is hooked, the angle and boat captain will communicate and the boat is used to help reel in the fish. Then of course, a third person is usually needed to net or gaff the fish. This teamwork is fishing. The guy on the rod and reel is the angler.

These days, in our ego driven hey, “look at me and like me on Facebook and pass my picture and love it on Instagram” immediate gratification world, often times people rush to get to the point of that picture so much that they miss the opportunity to fish. They angle. And the two are not the same. I once read a quote that “only a surfer knows the feeling”….well the same can be said here, only a fisherman knows the feeling. The feeling of figuring it out and catching that fish. Hiring a guide who is on the water 300 days a year, who rigs your rod, baits your hook, and tells you where to cast, or even hooks the fish, then lets you reel it in, isn’t fishing. Yes, you are still angling, although it can be argued that a valuable part of the angling equations is missed when you do not actually hook the fish yourself, but none the less you are angling to some extent if you fight and land that fish. Now take your picture and pass it around the world and make sure to leave the part out about how the guide hooked it for you!

Bass Fishing is getting hot in south Florida

Bass fishing in south Florida has been getting better every week for the past few weeks...

Check out this beauty that my friend Matt Stiebel caught the other day. It was his first largemouth bass ever weighing in at about 7 pounds.

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Fly Fishing Videos

This link is to a great site that will lead you to some "films"...not videos...as in footage, not instructional, as in short documentaries.

http://flyfishingfilmtour.com/

Snook Fishing

Snook fishing in south Florida is spectacular!

If you are visiting the area and like to fish, I highly recommend getting a guide and going snook fishing. Or, if you have some of your own tackle, go for it on your own. There are a lot of accessible places to target snook especially in the summer.

Although to keep one, it must fit in slot, and they are delicious, just catching and releasing them is a thrill and something all lifetime anglers should put on their "list."

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Fly Fishing Film Tour (P.Gozzo) Off The Grid

Check out this trailer.....you will want to go see the movie. I have yet to see the movie, but I am sure it is great based off of this trailer. Oh wait, I meant, "film". They are called films if they are artsy correct?

Whatever, check this out.

http://tv.flyfishingfilmtour.com/video/317/Off-the-Grid

The film is called, "Off The Grid"

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Take Me Fishing

Good site.

http://www.takemefishing.org/

Paul Gozzo