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, August 29, 2025, 0700 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

For fifty years I have totally enjoyed taking people sailing, fishing and cruising. Most of my time with people on the ocean has been fishing. This has been because of growing up in a commercial fishing family, growing up in Perkins Cove (commercially fishing myself and with others) and my love of ocean angling. I loved commercial fishing, particularly harpooning free swimming bluefin tuna. But I really love taking anglers groundfishing or fishing for the bottom dwelling fish species of New England. Of those species I love to chase, the halibut is highest on the list. We don't catch many. In fact, we never caught any when I first started taking people fishing. On my second boat, the Bunny Clark , we saw our first few halibut the first year, 1983. They were all small. Six to ten pounds. We caught our first good halibut in 1984, a 54 pounder, a mile from shore, caught on a bait rig. Since then we have lost a lot of them and caught many more than I expected. To date, we have caught two hundred and seven, not including the halibut under 20 pounds that we saw in the early years of the Bunny Clark . Until about fifteen years ago, catching a halibut was hit or miss. My captains and I never knew where we could specifically go to catch halibut. This changed when I installed the CHIRP sounding machine. With this more accurate fish finding machine, we can actually see where the halibut are over an expanse of even bottom. We have always known, generally, where to find halibut. But actually being able to see them on the sounding machine has changed things in our favor. My experience with Atlantic halibut tells me that this fish only bites at certain times. Even when you find them and actually see them, they don't always bite. This is true with all fish, I know. But with the halibut it's so much more so. I think I know the factors involved but this fish has made me feel foolish more times than not. However, one of the times that I was right in my assumption about the factors being in my favor was the extreme day trip on August 25, 2025. I had five factors in my favor that trip. Plus, I had an angler, Steve LaPlante (CT), with me who knew how to catch them and the desire to chase them that day. And that's all I needed. I knew of three areas where I have had my best catches over the last fifteen years. We tried all three of them that day. We did find halibut on two of the three. On one of these spots I saw one that I knew was a halibut. It was interested but didn't take a hook, that I know of. One other spot I could not find what I thought was a halibut. But one spot, the first one of the day, thankfully, we found a school of them. In total I saw eight halibut there, not including the first halibut that was hooked. That fish was hooked within the first five minutes of being there. Alex Medunitza (ME) was the lucky angler. He was using a jig. I knew instantly that he had a halibut on the line. I had everyone reel up. This was what I call a gift fish. It only made one significant run to bottom. And I'm not sure it even got there. It came to the surface relatively easy where Danny DellaMonica and I were there waiting to gaff it. Both Danny and I struck at the same time and swung it over the side and it the boat. The fight happened on the deck. It jumped around for about ten minutes. Finally subdued by it's new environment and the fight itself, I was able to get Alex to hold it for a picture. This digital image appears on the right. Alex is showing the underside of the fish to the camera in this image. That fish weighed 57.5 pounds, 49" long. A drift later, Steve LaPlante himself hooked one. This fish made more runs. This was very helpful to us as, when it appeared at the side of the boat, it was all played out. As I held it in place, Danny was able to get a hand between the gill plate and the first gill to haul it aboard. We weighed it, took a quick picture with Steve holding it and released it back to the ocean alive. That fish was 53 pounds. I didn't take the time to measure it. A few drifts later, on the same piece of bottom but further away, Troia Burgess (VT) hooked into a massive halibut. The signature on the sounding machine was amazing. But it was really tough for her. I had everyone reel up and I held the rod for her so all she had to do was crank the reel handle. But, never having fished much, it was too much. The rod straightened out and the fish was gone. Halibut have a boney mouth. So if they aren't hooked perfectly well they can spit the hook. That's seemingly what this one did. I don't know how long we fought it. But the head shakes were big and slow. It was just as well, though. Had we brought the fish to gaff we couldn't have boated it without killing it. The federal regulations state that you can only land one halibut per boat per trip. In the past, we have lost huge halibut. Some we saw. Most we didn't. But it's that excitement and that "what if" that keeps one going. Special fish like Alex's and Steve'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

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