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Saturday, January 2, 2016

2015 Was a Great Year For Fishing With Southern Tide Guide Service!



As the 2015 Rock Fish season closed on 12/31/2015, I had a chance to slow down and go through my log book and reflect on everything that happened during the season.  Thankfully, I was able to run more trips than I did during the past two seasons & the average size of the fish that we caught was bigger than the past two seasons. Both of these factors bode well for the upcoming years.  Fortunately, we didn't lose many trips due to weather during 2015,  in fact we had beautiful weather right up until we wound in the last fish of the season at 3:15 on 12/31/2015.  I was VERY fortunate to fish with great groups of guys and girls during the past 12 months.  We ran some new groups, some groups that had fished with my Father for years, and I had the opportunity to fish with some family members who had not been out on the bay for many years as well as some of my best friends.  The spring started out slow as the weather was late warming up.  None the less, we managed to pull out some trophy bass before they made their way out of the Bay after having spawned.





   After the water warmed up, we changed tactics and began targeting other species including Bluefish, Cow Nosed Rays (archery) Spanish Mackerel, and Cobia.  We had great fishing (and shooting) during the summer months. 







Reedville Fishermen's Museum Take a kid fishing day









Three Sons

False Albacore

Soon, the summer came to an end, the weather cooled down, and we had one heck of a Nor'easter .   

Before I knew it Striped bass season was back in. This year, we only got to chum for fish a couple weeks, the remainder of the season, we caught the majority of our fish trolling &casting.  


























Now its time to get to work on winter maintenance & get ready for spring trophy season 2016.  Hopefully Mother Nature will be nice to us for the rest of this winter.
I want to thank everyone who fished with me in 2015, and I hope to see you all again during the 2016 season.

Thank You!

Joe Biddlecomb
Captain, Southern Tide Guide Service