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 Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) will meet to discuss the fate of menhaden (AKA the most important fish in the sea). At the end of that meeting, it will adopt an addendum to its menhaden management plan, which will determine new overfishing thresholds and target fishing rates. Now, more than ever, we need your help. In 32 of the past 54 years, we have overfished menhaden, and its population now stands at its lowest point on record—a mere 8 percent of what it once was!…
Posts tagged “false albacore”
A time ago I took a correspondence course from the Shakey The Mohel School of Film. Anyway, here’s some less than stable shots from an old trip* that at least shows somewhat the blast of chasing false albacore. *(Repurposed from a while back, just because.)
Tagged: backing, false albacore, shakey
Uh…(slackjawed) Found via Epic Blitz.
Tagged: Bad Craziness, Blitz, bluefish, false albacore, little tunny, Montauk
–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 aforementioned boat in areas they are supposed to be, looking for busts. –Curse and throw stuff when the scoped birds are diving over bluefish. Claim that you hate their very existence even though you secretly want to stop and cast to them with a wired-on popper. –Finally see missiles projecting out of the water and slashing through rainbait; trip in your haste to make ready at the bow, knocking your teeth into a bow cleat. Calculate cost of future dentistry. –Load backcast, flub forward…
Tagged: fall run, false albacore, forked tailed demons
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 hardcore ways there is to fish for striped bass: Swimming out to the rocks. He gives a great account of it in the most recent issue called “Confessions of a Wetsuiter.” Intrigued, I decided to email him a few questions, just because it’s so intense and maybe, well, borderline insane? Here’s the interview: Swimming out to the far rocks at night seems like an extreme way to fly fish. What made you decide to try it? There is whole contingent in Montauk (surfcasters) who…
The Camp-site Sports Shop in Huntington, NY, carries The Blitz. Atlantic Outfitters in Port Washington, NY, carries The Blitz. We support them anyhow but are glad they’re carrying.
Those are the hands of Jason Puris of Thefin.com releasing a striper in the surf. Jason proved a huge help to getting our book project off the ground. Tosh Brown took some awesome shots in incredibly harsh conditions and posted some of them here, in a lightbox on his site. Now my job starts. Time to put some real thought onto the page, rather than firing off blog posts. Thanks again to Jason, Paul Dixon, Jim Levison, John McMurray, Mike Warecke, and the Salty Fly Rodders of New York.
Tagged: amateur photoshop hackery, false albacore
Score one for participatory journalism. In 2007 David Kinney, a career newspaperman, dove headfirst into the collective insanity that is the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby. The result is The Big One, an exhaustively researched window into the people and culture that fuel the derby, and the mania that fuels them. It would be tempting to think this was an easy book to write; go fishing and then type it all out. That would be incorrect. Kinney deserves credit for gaining access to a group so paranoid and insular that getting any of them to talk and take him fishing is remarkable. (In fact, reading some passages, you’re left to wonder if the source is on the level or passing along blatant…
Some shaky footage from fishing for false albacore last week. [UPDATE: Reloaded the video after trying to take some of the shakiness out. It was making me sick.] [NOTE: For everyone asking, the rod is a Helios prototype, which is why it has a different reel seat and coloration than what’s in production. And, yes, that is floating line. I had on full sink, but when I hooked my first one the line didn’t clear properly and I got a ridiculous bird’s nest pulled tight by a fleeing albie. I didn’t want to miss out while untangling, so I switched out to the floating–all I had–super quick just to get a fly in the mix. Normally I use full sink. The backing is gel…
Tagged: albies, fall run, false albacore, fishing, fly reel, fly rod, long island
