So there's this place called Martha's Vineyard. It's a great place. I had never been there until a couple years ago. But I have a friend who has a place down there. So i've started going down there. it's an amazing place.
Incidentally, i started fishing three years ago. Exclusively catch and release fishing. Mostly fly fishing. I'm not a fantastic fly caster, but I'm a decent angler, i'm relatively fishy. I'm not bad at finding fish and fooling fish. I've gotten obsessed with fishing, it's in my blood, and I just never really gave it a chance until 2016. But in the past 3+ years i've done a lot of it and in some cool places too. I've caught fish in all new england states except rhode island, as well as montana, arizona, florida, hawaii, new york, and the bahamas.
In Martha's Vineyard, there's four primary game species - striped bass, bluefish, bonito, and false albacore. You can also catch tautog, scup, and sea robin, and probably other fish, but those are the ones that come to mind.
I was in MV with my Dad and we were staying at Rick's place. We arrived on the ferry friday evening. Rick's place is right on one of the tidal ponds, of which there are several big ones on the island. Rick saw a bunch of birds on the water, which means that they're chasing after small fish, which means that there are bigger fish chasing the small fish. Sure enough, within 20 minutes, both Dad and Rick caught a fish. We were spin casting, which i'm not great at, and I think i'm still learning how to do a fast retrieve with a jigging action to give the lure more action. But what an amazing start to the trip. We were on the board! We've had two other marthas vineyard/cape cod/woods hole fishing trips earlier this year that were not extremely successful, so it was nice to get off to a fast start.
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