Category Archives: Inshore
The Only Time I Bit The Cork
Thanksgiving 2002. I don’t know why I felt compelled to do it, maybe an insecure need to prove I actually did catch that bass on a fly rod. Although in reality it proves nothing; it could have been a stage … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast
The Drinking Man’s Guide To Drinking
He was a Brit living in Singapore and he smoked cigarettes that smelled like incense. He kept buying us expensive vodka as a reward for our work and, at some point, suggested it would be a good idea to snort … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Travel
MENHADEN: ROCK THE VOTE!
The fishing has been sucking. Here’s a chance where we can all actually do something about it. Rather than mince words, I’ll paste them directly from a mailing by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation: In a matter of days, the Atlantic States … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast, Photos, Save the World
Bass, Menhaden, Everything
The striped bass of the Chesapeake, and therefore the Eastern Seaboard, got a dose of good news this week with a big spike in the Young of the Year numbers. I spoke briefly with my friend John Page Williams of … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast, Save the World
False Albacore and the Blowing of Minds
Uh…(slackjawed) Found via Epic Blitz.
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast, Pimped Content, Video
Karmic Payoffs Do Not Exist
I emailed the forecast late last night to Nick Murray, who responded “Too late to back out now.” OK, then. I’d already bailed on a Montauk trip this week, and got burned by it. Stripers still eat during Small Craft … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast
On and Off the King’s Highway
The delivery captain loosened up and had some stories about things. New Age mystics had commissioned him for a night trip, once, and he lost power, and a strange green light rose up around the boat. Then one time a … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore
How To Release An Albie
–Book a charter for $600 –Or, fill your boat with $600 worth of fuel –Or, mill about on shore with a boost from Trucker’s Friend to keep your wits in case they ever come close enough. –Drive around aimlessly in … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast
INTERVIEW: John Papciak, Montauk Wetsuiter
Even a boat guy like me realizes that if you fish in the Northeast, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t read Surfcaster’s J0urnal. John Papciak is the magazine’s fly guru, and a proponent of one of the most … Continue reading
Filed under Fly Fishing, Inshore, Northeast
