Welcome to your light tackle fishing experience on Nantucket

Capt. Shawn Bristow and Capt. Corey Gammill are Nantucket's premier light tackle, flyfishing guides with 30 years of full-time, year round east coast charter fishing experience from New Hampshire to Florida. Capt. Shawn and Capt. Corey fish Nantucket's unique rips and shoals searching for Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bonito, Flase Albacore and Bluefin Tuna. Come fishing for the day and see what the Nantucket fishery has to offer!

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Giant Bluefin Tuna Caught on Spinning Gear

Just a quick note and some pictures from yesterdays adventure. Congrats to Fred Jordan for battling a Giant bluefin on a spinning rod for 1:25 minutes!!! Fred was the only person to fight this fish in the 90 degree heat! Click on the pictures below to get a better look…

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What we Catch on Nantucket

Striped Bass
Best Action: May-July
Morphology and lifespan:
The striped bass is a typical member of the Moronidae family in shape, having a streamlined, silvery body marked with longitudinal dark stripes running from behind the gills to the base of the tail. Maximum size is 200 cm (6.6 ft) and maximum scientifically recorded weight 57 kg (125 US [...]

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Jul
15

Big Bass and Nice Bluefin

The fishing on Nantucket continues to be fantastic. The striper fishing continues to be very good, with some nice being taken. THe fish have staged in the rips, feeding on herring, sea robins, squid and sand eels. Over the past 2 weeks over 10 fish over 35# have been caught on the Squaretail.
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Jun
30

38# Striper on Light Tackle fishing from Nantucket

Just quick picture of a 38# Striped Bass caught in the early afternoon while fishing with Capt Corey Gammill off of Nantucket. The big fish are starting to show!!!

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Jun
28

Bill Fisher Tackle report for Nantucket Fishing weekend

As hoped for last week, Bass fishing continues to improve.  Water temperatures are rising (to a good level), there is more bait here, and the fish are bigger and more plentiful than last week.  What more could anyone ask for?   Blue skies some say….well they are here now, but our vote is for that early morning fish where [...]

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Jun
28

Fishing Continues to improve on Nantucket

Just a quick update, the tuns fishing continues to be very successful with some big fish being caught. Expect multiple casting opportunties into breaking tuns fish in the 60-75″ range. We have also been getting consitient bites on the troll with at least one if not more on every trip this year. As for the [...]

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Jun
15

Better fishing still to come…

The Bass are continuing to swing around the southeast corner and are now being caught on the southeastern rips (Old Man and Pochick) and off of Sankaty Bluff. On the southeastern rips, Bass of some size are being caught mostly on swimmers, but also on larger Hogy’s and pencil poppers as well. The [...]

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