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)
2024 Season Reservations, Rules & Info. (Revised Jan 10, 2024)
2024 Season Schedule & Rates (Revised Jan 10, 2024)
Fishing Update (edited on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 0600 EST)
Bunny Clark Guestletters (New Guestletter added Jan. 5, 2024)
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

I took the shot on the right on the next to last offshore marathon trip we took during the 2024 Bunny Clark fishing season, October 22, 2024. It was a perfect windless day. What made it even more special was that it was the best day for landings, in total pounds, that we caught on a single trip all season. It couldn't have come at a better time. This trip was also the trip where we caught the most good sized cod of any trip this season. And one of the only times that we caught the Bunny Clark's bag limit on a trip. As most know, we could only start keeping cod for the two months of September and October. The shot on the right is a digital image of Shawn Rosenberger (PA) holding his 21 pound cod, the second largest cod caught on the Bunny Clark on any trip this season. It was the prettiest cod we caught this all year as well. By all accounts, it was a new fish from somewhere offshore, part of what I call the spawning stock biomass, or what's left of it. The fillets had zero worms, the fin morphology was perfect, it was clear, relatively few copepods and it looked completely untouched with zero scars. Cod recruitment into our fishery has been dismal, to say the least, in the last few years. Shawn loves to catch cod. But he also loves to catch any fish. And he is very good at it; one of the best. In fact, he won the Bunny Clark's Fisherman of the Year award five different seasons. There are only two anglers who have won it more often; Fred Kunz (NH) and Tim Williams (CT), who each won during six different seasons. And Shawn could have potentially been part of that elite group this season had he not had a medical issue that held him back for two of his planned weeks here! Shawn was also one of our last anglers to catch a cod over 50 pounds too many years ago. Once very common, a cod that size is almost impossible to find. In fact, any legal sized cod is hard to find these days. The cod population is the lowest I have ever seen it in my lifetime. Once found everywhere, there was no piece of bottom that didn't have cod on it. Many of these spots were spawning spots where some of the largest cod came back to year after year. All of those spots that I know have been decimated. No cod are ever found on these spots now. Modern electronics are to blame. Since 1977, when the Loran C came into being, any boat with a good sounding machine could land within a few feet of these spawning spots where these cod were trapped by spawning behavioral patterns. By being there, we found when the best time to catch them happened and what time of year they would be there. Once the commercial gillnetters found these spots, they put nets there well before the spawning cod arrived and left them there until well after those fish left. Recreational anglers, like us, would also fish on these cod constrained by the call of nature. Draggers would pull nets over these spots. One of my friends caught 100,000 pounds of big spawning cod on one set while dragging. You can understand why there aren't many cod left. At this time, we, as fishery managers and stakeholders, are faced with even lower numbers of cod in New England. More cuts will have to be made to fishermen who target them. And it's likely there will be no cod season next year. So it just makes it all the more exciting when you see a bigger cod brought to the surface, even it you have to release it alive! Special fish like Shawn'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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