April 13th Rhode Island Trout Opener

 

Hands down one of the most enjoyable trout openers on record for ECC. Big kudos to RI State Hatchery program and there staff that was easily the most and largest average sized fish I have ever seen. Culling through for larger fish I limited... out by 645! Then processed to catch and release tons of nice rainbows and browns until around noon when Erich Erich Medenbach showed up for some camera fun. The bite had slowed as even though there were plenty of fish around they were getting gun shy from the morning bombardment. After two casts will follows and no love E ran back to his truck and came back with a box of shad killers. He tied one on and the proceeded to limit out on fish faster than I have ever seen it done lol looked like Mediterranean Skip Jack fishing! Fitting that Brown Trout are native to Germany as Medenbach and I ran the German two step on them all afternoon! Even after 10 years of fishing hard together it was still as fun as the first sick trip. Then after having out fill of the action we broke out the cameras and got to work shooting some great action of our fish and the fellow anglers around us. I'm strait beat now all I put up are junk cell phone shots, but keep an eye out for some of Erich Medenbachs work later there are some killer shots!See More.

 

Even the next generation got involved:

 Fishing World meet mini me

 Angelina Sprengel

 

 

 

April 1st 2013 A good sign of things to come

Capt Jack scouted some of the states healthy herring runs to see what would be on the menu for the early arriving bass. Signs for a great spring run couldn't look any better check out some of the footage he shot.

 

 

 

 

Feb 14 2013 Capt Jack Makes cover of Saltwater Sportsman

 

East Coast's Captain Jack makes the cover of Salt Water Sportsman. Nice shot of a Mako taken by Capt Louis Defusco and Capt Jack Sprengel on board Kevin Fish's "Karamiss" during the J&B Tri State Shark Tournament on Block Island.

November 27th 2012 Playing with the natives.

 

Took a ride with Outdoor Photographer Erich Medenbach today to try and shoot some Native Brookies. Ran into some nice colorful fish. Would have been better with some more light, but the Freezing Rain, Snow and Freezing North East Winds made for a great opportunity to test our Stormrs in a Woodland Setting. Erich got some great shots of the action I got some sick underwater stuff with the new cam. Good day.

 

 

November 15-21st 2012 Misc Black Fish Trips

Getting cold now and the offshore forecast is terrible so we've been picking away at blackfish along Rhodys South Shore. Also played around with one of 6 new cameras we purchased to shoot next years action! Hope some of you reading the blog end up in some of that footage! ;)

November 12th 2012 Black Fishing in the Aftermath with another Nor'easter on the way

 

Had to take care of my girls earlier this weekend, so I couldn’t make it out to the Canyons with my teammates this time around. That being said my brothers Lou and Derek did a great job out there getting into some nice yellows and a large school of migrating Bluefin. Great work guys! Fortune favors the bold! 

 

 

 By Sat night my ladies were doing better so to salvage the weekend I put a Sunday Blackfish ...

trip together with a “fishy” father and son team and long time “East Coasters” Tim and Charles Underhill. Along to help out was ECC Mate Brandon Lake. In addition to our crew, Ecc Mate Nick and our friend Brian would also be heading out on their boats to help get on the bite.

 This would be Tim and Charles first trip for Tog, so I was anxious to put them on some solid action. Forecast was a bit off so we did a little bouncing on our way out past the reef. Once we got there Brandon and I worked together to get us anchored over some nice structure. Once in place, we crabbed up and dropped. The entire crew was using light tackle Trev S series rods. Only moment into it Tim and Brandon were tight on fish, kicking off a nice one hour flurry of action. Another ten minutes later a few boats schemed in on us and dropped anchors all over putting an immediate halt to the bite.

 As if on queue, I got a call from Nick who was fishing with his wife Allie and keeping an eye out for us. “Jack I’m Bailing them, I’ve already limited out” he said. WOW! Brandon ran up to the bow and pulled the anchor and we steamed about a mile north to Nick’s location. He had found a nice piece of rocky bottom with no large structure but a ton of fish and well away from the swarm of other boats. Next to Nick, were my friends and Clients Mark and Kyle Paparelli on their boat and Brian on his Hyrda. All three boats were tight, Nick’s boat was Quadrupled up!!! We set anchor and slid in between Mark and Nick’s vessels beautifully. All rods in and Wham, Insta-bite! We had wave after wave of action the entire day with beautiful fish.

 

We limited out in no time and were throwing back Keeper sized fish like they were Choggies.

 

 

The highlight of the trip was First time Togger Tim landing a toad weighing in at 10.6lbs on some seriously light spinning gear.

 

 

 A nice way to salvage the nice weekend and get some time on the water with great folks!