Bunny Clark Deep Sea Fishing

To Make a Reservation on-line, Click on the Boat Icon Above

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, April 18, 2025, 0610 EDT)
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 digital image on the right is a picture I took of Troy Galloway (MA) standing next to the Bunny Clark's first mate, Danny DellaMonica, who is holding the fish for the picture. The fish, as most know, is a halibut. This one weighed 76 pounds. In the last fifteen years, we have caught more halibut per season than we ever caught before. From 1975 until that time, if we caught one a year that was big news. Now we catch anywhere from thirteen to twenty-three halibut a season. Some years we catch mostly halibut of legal size. But this is unusual. Mostly they are below forty-one inches overall length, which is too small to keep. The halibut in the shot on the right was fifty-four inches caliper fork length, which with a calculation chart, puts it a pound different from the actual weight of this fish. So even if we were unable to weigh this fish, I would have been able to guess the weigh within 5 pounds maximum. The chart is closer to about 2 pounds in difference just by measuring it. Any bigger, we would have had to weigh the fish in pieces to get the right weight. But, even then, that isn't quite accurate as you lose some weigh by moisture loss in blood, etc. This is the earliest legal halibut we have ever seen on the Bunny Clark . The earliest one before this was one that weighed 150 pounds caught on April 27, 2023. This is also the first time that we have caught a legal halibut on the first trip of the season. This was the first halibut that Troy has ever seen caught on a boat before. And like most neophyte halibut catchers, Troy thought he was caught on bottom. Knowing I was in an area where we have caught halibut before, I asked him if he was gaining line. "Oh, a little bit."; was his reply. He had an electric reel. And when I looked, he was gaining what I considered, a substantial amount of line. So I told him it was a halibut and had ever other angler aboard reel up so they wouldn't tangle with him. This fish took five runs to bottom after getting up to within thirty feet of the boat. And I told him to expect this. Twice I had to take his thumb off the spool and his fingers from tamping down on the line running across the rod blank. When it was finally in gaffing range, I took the lead with one of our regular gaffs to stabilize it so Danny could put the meat hook to it. With Mark Girard on the counter, or second assist, we had our fish. There is little else that is more exciting than catching a halibut for an old groundfishing captain like me. And I would certainly rather see someone like Troy catch one than I would myself, having caught three others on a rod & reel, albeit, of much smaller size. Like every captain's dream, it's my hope that someday we actually land one over 300 pounds, instead of losing them at the boat which has happened a couple of times. Catching a halibut like the one in the picture will certainly give us more practice in the prospects of doing so in the future. Special fish like Troy's are the kind of fish we like to see on caught on the Bunny Clark .

For information and reservations:

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

Schedule & Rates

Information & Boat Rules

For a Link To Our Favorite Restaurants, Please Click To Visit:
Barnacle Billy's and Barnacle Billy's etc.


Ogunquit, Maine.

Parts of all these Bunny Clark, Corp. web pages and, indeed, most of the innovations, means to ideas and tons of help came from Chamber Works, Inc. All rights reserved. If anybody in the world is interested in the internet, web pages or ideas for computer displays, kiosks and advertising, these are the companies to go with. Bank on it, baby! Best Fishes, Tim Tower.