Capt. Shawn Bristow | Squaretail Outfitters | Fly Fishing and Light Tackle Fishing on Nantucket, MA

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JULY-AUGUST: Mid Season fishing on Nantucket

As the water warms into the low 70’s a new species is added to the list, the atlantic bonita. These tasty speedsters arrive in mid-July and provide consistant fly and light tackle action on the incoming tide. While fishing on anchor you will see these fish run up and down the Bonita Bar inhaling sand eels […]

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MAY-JUNE: Spring fishing on Nantucket

If it is striped bass that you want to catch, then May and June is the time for you to fish. As the striped bass migrate north during the spring their arrival to Nantucket occurs in late May and continues through the month of June. Cast pencil poppers and bombers into rips and shoals as […]

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About Captain Shawn Bristow and Squaretail Outfitters

Welcome to Squaretailoutfiiters.com the internet home of Capt. Shawn Bristow. Capt. Shawn is the owner of Squaretail Outfitters, a fly and light tackle charter fishing guide service based on Nantucket Island. Capt. Shawn fishes Nantucket’s unique rips and shoals, both inshore and offshore, searching for Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bonito, False Albacore and Tunas. Capt. Shawn […]

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About this Site

Welcome to your fishing experience on Nantucket Capt. Shawn Bristow is Nantucket's premier light tackle, flyfishing guide with 12 years of full-,time, year round east coast charter fishing experience from New Hampshire to Florida. Capt. Shawn fish's Nantucket's unique rips and shoals searching for Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bonito, Flase Albacore and Bluefin Tuna. Come fishing for the day and see what the Nantucket fishery has to offer!

Jul

Bonito fishing has begun!!

The bonito have started to show the last couple days. The bait on the south side of the island started to thicken with sand eels in the 2 to 4 inch range. The bar has a far number of blues on it with some others mixed in. The fish we have caught have been large, […]

Jul

Great white shark washes up on Nantucket

By Martin Finucane
Globe Staff / July 16, 2008
This one was for real. State shark specialists have determined that a big fish that washed up on a beach in Nantucket Monday was a 6 1/2-foot great white shark.
It is a rare find for the scientists, who have not seen a great white carcass wash up on […]

Jul

New uploaded Picture gallery

Have a look at a quick slideshow and see some light tackle and flyfishing pictures from nantucket…

Jul

nantucketfishingboats.com

Check it out!!! Want a no bull s*%t resource for your nantucket fishing? Then nantucketfishingboats.com has you covered. Whether you want to see some seals, catch some blues or search for stripers and tuna, one of the captains on this site will get you there. Im proud to be apart of this growing resource, check […]

Jul

Nantucket Fishing Report from Capt. Shawn Bristow for July 10th, 2008

As I look back through the log book for the past 3 weeks all I read is bass, bass, bass. The striper fishing has been great, consistent all day action. Thats not to say the blues have not been mixed in though. The early morning and evening charters have seen the best striper action with […]

Jun

Striped Bass fishing is HOT

The bass have arrived in great numbers!!! We have been finding them in rips, shoals, flat water, shore lines and pretty much everywhere else. Some nice fish have been caught as well. This week alone, the squaretail has boated 2 fish over 30 pounds, one being 36#’s, and 10 fish over 25 pounds all on […]

Jun

Fishing Report for June 13th

Finally the fishing here on Nantucket is getting better. We started to season off very slow, with water temps 5-7 degrees below average. This past weekend the bluefish mabe there arrival with fish being caught all around the island. The blues were averaging 4 pounds with the odd 10#’er thrown in. The striped bass fishing […]

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Spring 2007

The bass fishing here are nantucket is off to a slow start. Cold waters and windy conditions has made the fishing very difficult. Yesterday we managed to catch five fish out of 15 bites, largest fish was 26 inches. With the warm weather expected for the weekend the fishing should slowly get better.

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About Capt. Shawn

Capt. Shawn fishes Nantucket’s unique rips and shoals, both inshore and offshore, searching for Striped Bass, Bluefish, Bonito, False Albacore and Tunas. Capt. Shawn operates his 26ft Regulator out of Madaket Marine on Nantucket’s west end.