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 »

  Picking up where we left off in part 1,  hook size is only part of the equation when teaser size is the topic. Length and fullness of body should also come into play when making your selections. Both factors are relatively easy to choose if you know the type and size of bait present. […]… Read more »

  Kicking up a bit of friendly controversy amongst the fluke fishing crowd has never been a difficult task. Often, lively discussion can be spurred with just a simple question or two: What’s the best rig? Should you use bait or jigs? Do channel edges, wrecks or submerged boulder fields produce the biggest fish? There […]… Read more »

  The month of May can be a magical time for Northeast and mid-Atlantic anglers. The freshwater lakes are bursting with action, doormat fluke are putting in their initial appearances, and the first keeper stripers begin making news from northern New Jersey to southern Massachusetts. All of this is headline-grabbing action and I have to […]… Read more »

    As was widely reported last week, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) on February 4, 2014 passed a proposal to manage fluke catches in NY, NJ and CT as a single region under a combined quota. In the amendment, an example of how the fishery might be managed was provided using an […]… Read more »