NEW SALE PRICE: $9.95 with FREE SHIPPING!!! While Supplies Last! (Please allow one week for delivery.) Back By Popular Demand! LONG ISLAND’S BEST FISHING 2015 CALENDAR POINTS ANGLERS TOWARD THE LUNKERS When does cod fishing peak? Where can you catch big stripers on June’s full moon? What color bucktails fool late summer fluke? Are the trout stocked […]… Read more »

It was an interesting week on the inshore fishing front as snappers, blue claw crabs and triggerfish all increased their presence substantially while keeper fluke consolidated in a few areas but seemed to disperse in others. I had a chance to work the Middle Bay/Jones Beach area last Saturday, trying to turn on some friends […]… Read more »

Black sea bass were the primary topic of my Newsday outdoors column this week, but there was more news than I could fit into such a short piece. The Captree fleet, for example, had some very good action on the Fire Island artificial reef. “The morning tides have produced the most consistent action with sea […]… Read more »

In Friday’s Newsday column I touched on summer weakfishing. The action this year has been pretty good, as noted, but the pattern is different than in years past. Sure, there are a decent number of weakfish in the usual haunts and deep holes inside the bays and harobrs, but there also seem to be a […]… Read more »

With the wind and rain of Hurricane Arthur’s near miss now behind us, the next few days have a lot of potential on the fishing front. Catches picked up as the barometer dropped and the big low approached. Now, with the water freshly churned and full of oxygen, that uptick should continue for at least […]… Read more »

  What a fun trip I had sailing out of Port Jefferson aboard the open boat Celtic Quest with the Ward Melville High School Fishing Club last Sunday. The club has over 40 members and is growing more popular with students every year. “Growing up,” said club advisor, Bob Wilson, “I had the good fortune […]… Read more »

That West End summer flattie action I mentioned in today’s Newsday Column (6/27/14) is no fluke. The bite has been solid with quite a few fish in the 4- to 6-pound class, plus a surprising number of doormats pushing to 8 pounds according to Mark Keller at Bay Park Fishing Station. Best of the action […]… Read more »

By Joseph Albanese     It’s mid-April now and the first shoots of green are starting to push up through woodland lots, deciduous trees have begun to bud and the song of the American Robin is once again a daily treat. The familiar “oggggrrrrrlllllllyyyyyy, oggggrrrrrlllllllyyyyyy” call of Red Wing Blackbirds can be heard throughout local wetlands. Across Long Island spring has […]… Read more »