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Dave Pickering 2024 Seminars

Finesse Approach to Catching Stripers

This all new seminar for 2024 will tackle catching striped bass using a finesse approach. Today’s stripers are primarily feeding on small bait like bay anchovies, silversides and peanut bunker. The seminar will deal with how to fish and use smaller lures to “match the hatch” when targeting stripers of all sizes that are feeding on small bait.

In addition, the show will look at a stealthy approach. Fishing from shore from bay areas to the high surf of the oceanfront will be covered. The use of a kayak to fish in skinny protected waters will also be covered.

With good numbers of larger stripers around southern New England in the last year, this should be an informative seminar as fishermen plan their 2024 fishing.  The seminar is filled with photos and text along with a lot of video footage that was recently shot with a Go Pro camera. Show-goers will be taken right into the action. The author will narrate the show. Nearly all the photos and video are up to date and were taken in 2023.

This seminar runs about an hour. Questions at the end can follow if time allows.
 

 

Dave Pickering is considered one of the East Coast’s most prolific striper catchers.  In his career of fishing over 60 years, he has logged in over 76,000 stripers that were caught and released. Outdoor Life magazine has named him one of the 20 greatest anglers on the planet. He has written parts of several books on striper fishing.  He has also written over 400 feature magazine articles in such publications as The Fisherman, On the Water Magazine and Saltwater Sportsman.  He is an award winning writer and photographer and has been member of the New England Outdoor Writers’ Association for over 40 years.

 

 

Carping Strategies

This new seminar attempts to unlock the mystery of carp fishing here in Southern New England.

The show has something for everyone-for those who have carp fished as well as for those wanting to get into this unique fishery. 

Carp abound in the many lakes and rivers of New England, and their sizes can be tremendous. It is an underutilized fishery, and anglers often use unorthodox methods to catch them.

 

 

 

The seminar will deal with such topics as equipment needs, rigging, baits, places to fish, best times of the year and daytime and nighttime fishing. The seminar will deal with a Euro style approach to catching them as well as a simple traditional approach.

The seminar is loaded with photos and video clips that illustrate exactly how and where to catch these monsters of freshwater.

The show lasts for just about 50 minutes with time at the end for questions from the audience if time permits.

 

 

 

Dave Pickering has been extensively fishing for carp for the last 30 years and is considered a national expert on carp fishing. He has written many magazine articles on carp fishing in such publications as the Fisherman magazine, On the Water magazine and The North American Carp Angler. He has landed and released over 12,000 carp in his fishing career.  He is a member of the Carp Anglers Group, a national carp fishing group, and has served on their Board of Directors for the last ten years.  In 2017 he was awarded the Champion of the Queen Award for his promotion of carp fishing and conservation in the US. He currently holds the unofficial records for mirror carp and common carp in RI.