Fishing with the Diving Fisherman

Once again, I had the pleasure of having Mike Laptew AKA, the diving fisherman on board today. Mike and I have spent quite a bit of time on the water filming stripers over the last few years. Mike has produced some amazing video that he uses in his seminars and his DVD’s. The fishing has been outstanding lately, so ur hopes were high that we would get some HD quality footage of some big bass.

There had been rumors of bunker in the Niantic River. As everyone knows, there is no better bait on the planet for big bass than a live bunker.  I got up extra early (1:45) to allow ourselves some time to search for them. We looked for over an hour and only saw sporadic activity. Not enough to throw the cast net or snag so by 5 or so we were on our way out from under the bridges in search of plan B, otherwise known as scup.

We went to all the usual places and did manage to get some nice fish in the boat. These fish normally would have made any charter of mine happy but we had set our sights on bigger things. It just didn’t happen today. We had a ton of hits but had a lot of trouble hooking up, they bass were just not very aggressive in the way that they were hitting the baits. Mike worked his magic and managed to get his usual fantastic photos of some of the fish. Here are a few courtesy of Mike Laptew, www.laptewproductions.com