The eastern flank of the sandy island was slowly disappearing as the tide began to trickle in from the nearby inlet. As an armada of small craft buzzed up and down the main channel, I smiled at the obscurity of feeling very much alone while having the fish all to myself. I was on […]… Read more »

      Without a doubt the 2018 fluke season has gotten off to a fine start. With water temperatures still relatively cool, big fish have stayed shallow, offering the chance to catch the doormat of a lifetime in bay and nearshore waters from New Jersey to Massachusetts. No doubt, they’ll still be plenty of […]… Read more »

    It’s 9:00 a.m., more than half an hour since your last strike. Up above, the sun screams from a cloudless sky, beating down relentlessly upon on the back of your neck. In an hour, you’ll be red as a lobster, sunblock or not. “Maybe it’s time to go home and mow the lawn,” […]… Read more »

          It must have been a small down-draft that caused it to miss. Or, perhaps the small mayfly simply miscalculated. In either case, it was now precariously perched, half on, half off, a small lily pad at the edge of an open pocket. I watched it for a second or two, […]… Read more »

    With more than 1,500 miles of coastline, New York’s marine district offers tremendous opportunities for shore-based anglers to score from spring through fall with many kinds of fish including striped bass, fluke, false albacore, porgies, triggerfish and blackfish. Although much of the marine coast line is privately owned and off-limits to the general […]… Read more »

It was a perfect cast, thank you. You know the type; the one that lands right where it should; the kind you just know will force a strike. Only this cast was made late at night – 2:00 a.m. to be exact – and I knew it was spot-on from sound and feel, not from […]… Read more »

  Where to start? That’s the question that comes into play as May appears on the calendar page. For Northeast anglers the choices are many. On the salty side, fluke are now fair game, stripers and blues are tearing into freshly arrived bunker schools and the first dinner plate-sized porgies are beginning to show. That makes it […]… Read more »

  Fluke season is finally here so let the hunt for doormats begin – and target them with meat! It’s a simple premise, really: Big fish like big baits, and the spring season offers one of your best bets at hooking-up with a summer flattie of trophy proportions. While its tempting after a long, cold winter […]… Read more »