Steelfinangling

My name is Craig, and I’m a weekend warrior

Jul 24, 2014 | 0 comments

To me, in the world of fishing there is nothing more satisfying that to hook a large striped bass in the surf, bring it to hand, and then release it. My typical Saturday begins between 3:30 and 4:00 am with a 70-mile drive to the New Jersey coastline to fish in the surf as the first hint of daylight peeks over the horizon. I usually spend a good portion of the morning perched on a 6 foot high wall of boulders, casting to a particularly fishy piece of submerged structure that often holds life when other places don’t. While it’s...

The Power of the Worm

Jun 19, 2014 | 0 comments

Fishing with Marathon guide, Albert Ponzoa is always incredible but this time was different... it was better.It was mid-April and the tarpon were really starting to make their push over the oceanside flats towards Bahia Honda. Team Steelfin was there, armed and ready with 10 and 11-weight fly rods and a baggie full of worm flies. Time and time again, the same scenario wold unfold... Ponzoa told us where and when the fish would come, and come they did. In really big schools of 70-120 pound fish over white sand... images we won’t soon forget. A cast was made, and...