Bunny Clark Deep Sea Fishing

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The F/V Bunny Clark (edited May 16, 2014)
Map, Directions & Location (Edited Feb 1, 2007)
Captains & Crew (Revised Feb 1, 2007)
2025 Season Reservations, Rules & Info. (Revised Jan 29, 2025)
2025 Season Schedule & Rates (Revised Jan 27, 2025)
Fishing Update (edited on Friday, November 7, 2025, 0700 EST)
Bunny Clark Guestletters (New Guestletter added Jan. 29, 2025)
Bunny Clark World & State Records List (Edited January 20, 2019)
"Tim Reidsema, Lee Dykas, Jason Ridolfi & Dennis Pietro" Photo Gallery (May 20, 2006)
Short Bunny Clark Fishing Videos(New Mar 6, 1997)
2010 Moon Phases (Revised Jan 30, 2010)
The New England Herring Problem (Who is taking our baitfish?)
Federal, State & Private Fishery Regs & Links
Favorite Bunny Clark Weather Links
Current Month Tide Chart for Ogunquit
2007 Accommodations & Services In Ogunquit Area

The shot on the right is a digital image of Olivia Swenson (RI) holding her 10.5 pound monkfish that she caught with me on the Bunny Clark during the May 15, 2025 offshore marathon trip. This is our second largest monkfish of the 2025 Bunny Clark fishing season to date. Normally, we catch most of our monkfish in the fall. This year we haven't seen very many in the fall. That also could be that we have had very few trips in October this season because of so many fishing trip cancellations due to predicted heavy weather. In the past, the 1980s through the 1990s, we used to catch monkfish all through the year. We also used to catch many larger monkfish, the largest of which weighed 55 pounds and was caught by Nancy Lee Regimbald (VT) on July 9, 1991. Nancy's fish had an on-shore registered weight of 49 pounds 12 ounces. This became the International Game Fish Association's all tackle world record for seventeen years until it was beaten by Robert Solberg on April 12, 2008 with a fish that had a registered weight of 51 pounds 4 ounces. This fish was caught in Massachusetts waters. At the time of this writing, this is still the IGFA's all tackle monkfish world record. I might have met Olivia before this year. But, if I did, I don't really remember her. Her father, Christian, fished with me on a regular basis years ago with her brother. Olivia is a very good fisherman. I couldn't tell how many fish she caught as she was pooling her fish with her father that day. But she never stopped catching fish. She also caught the only two trophy haddock that were landed on the boat that day. She was a good enough angler that if she fished with me on a regular basis, there is no question she would have been competing for the Fisherman of the Year. She was that good. I'm not sure if she had ever caught a monkfish before. They are a very good fish to eat. You get two cylindrical pieces of meat on either side of the tail. Julia Child claimed that it was her favorite fish to eat. She would slice the pieces of meat into "medallions" before preparing it for a meal. The monkfish is an anglerfish that eats it's prey by attracting it close to the monkfish's mouth with a specialized fin ray that, through evolution, has a piece of skin on the end that resembles something the prey would like to eat. When the prey gets close, the jaws open with lightning speed and grab the fish with long thin very sharp teeth. I've caught them with cusk, all different species of flounders and various species of groundfish in their stomach. I don't think it matters what they eat. When reeling the fish in, it's like pulling up a dead weight, as they don't fight that much. Sometimes a halibut or a barndoor skate will act the same. Because we catch so few of them, it's always fun to bring one aboard. There is usually some angler who has never seen one. That makes the trip even more interesting to us. Special fish like Olivia's are the kind of fish we like to see on caught on the Bunny Clark.

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Call: Bunny Clark, Corp. at - 207-646-2214
Write (Mailing Address): Tim Tower, P.O. Box 837F, Ogunquit, Maine 03907-0837
GPS Location to the dock: 70 Perkins Cove Road, Ogunquit, Maine 03907
Email Address (click here): bunnyclarkdsf@gmail.com

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