Riptide Report: Start Your Engines
ANTICIPATION: “Anticipation, or being enthusiastic, is an emotion involving pleasure, excitement, and sometimes anxiety in considering some expected or longed-for good event.” This word pretty much sums up how most of us are feeling. While some folks have struck...
Riptide Report: Early-Season Warning
The recent bout of warm, sunny weather on Cape Cod, combined with rumors of fresh striped bass and bluefish in waters to the south, was more than enough to prompt a pre-season shakedown of the Riptide. As it turned...
Riptide Report: Gearing up for 2012!
After enjoying the best season ever for Riptide Charters, things have barely slowed down. I’ve been spending the fall and winter getting all my gear ready for what is shaping up to be a super 2012. I’ll get right...
Riptide Report: Chatham Tuna & Buzzards Bay Albies
Share this Article On The end of September and early October have seen some of the best fishing in recent memory. At this time of year, we normally plan to focus on topwater tuna. However, given a warmer-than-normal summer,...
Riptide Report: Albie Assault
Share this Article On As of late, the tuna fishing off Cape Cod has been fair at best for the run-and-gun crowd. The tuna are around, but they seem more focused on the offerings of the troll and bait...
Riptide Report: Double-Shot Sunday!
Bluefins and albies in the same day! The charter for the day was my longtime customer and great friend Dave Nilson. Dave wanted to show his co-worker John, who is from the West Coast, how we fish here on...
Riptide Report: Albies off ACK
Good things happen when you least expect them! The other morning I was heading home around 7:30 when I got a call from my good friend Ken Panacek of Ken Catch Charters on Nantucket. We chat quite a bit...
Riptide Report: Pot Hopping
Over the last few weeks we have been doing a bunch of shark fishing south of Martha’s Vineyard with our sports. While running offshore we have taken advantage of the great light-tackle fishing for exotics along the way. Just...
Ruge Report: Fly-Rod Sharks & Mahi
By Shaun Ruge The following is a detailed account of a great day of fishing on Saturday, August 13, aboard Riptide Charters. It all began when I met my angler, Jeb, at 5:30 a.m. in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and headed...
Riptide Report: Sharks, Mahi, Bonito and More!
The last week has been nothing short of amazing. What is normally the summer doldrums for Riptide Charters has turned into some of the most action-packed fishing of the season. Both Capt. Shaun Ruge and I have run trips...
Terry Nugent has been fishing the lakes, ponds and coastal waters from New England to Florida for over 30 years. In 1998 that experience was put to good use and Riptide Charters was born. As a professional guide, Terry is also the captain of the Navionics Tournament Team. With major Striped Bass tournament top 10 finishes to his name and several top 3 finishes in ASA and FLW events. Capt. Terry has proven successful with inshore species and offshore pelagics from the islands to the canyons. He has guided his sports to a Massachusetts Governors’ Cup and back to back 2006/2007 IGFA World Records for Thresher and Blue Shark.