Recent content by Matts

I ventured to the south shore yesterday on my friend Joe's boat for what has been a hot fluke bite. Beautiful weather, slow drift, light sinkers and constant action. plain gulp worked best (a first for me), but fish kept biting off the tails, so fluke ribbon or squid filled in for part of the...

They can take the lead, but they can't hold the lead. And that's the most important part! apologies to Seinfeld.

I'm chunking for bass in Hempstead Harbor a few weeks ago (July). A rod goes off, I lock the reel and the fight ensues. It heads for the surface as many large bass do. In the midst of this tug of war, I notice a seal head poking out of the water looking at me. My first inclination was: "look, a...

All I need now is a buddy with a Regulator 31

You are usually not fishing on sticky bottom, so there's less concern with losing an expensive rig.

I remember my dad taking a deep breath, then reluctantly shelling out the big bucks for our Penn Long Beach. Still works, but the drag is inconsistent. Prob was never ever serviced.

well that was interesting

Oopsie: Conservation Notes Striped Bass: Slot limit - keep 28-35 inches, release under 28" and over 35"

Are you sure? The FDA requires sunscreens to maintain their effectiveness for 3 years. I learned quite a bit about sunscreen chemistry in a patent infringement case for Coppertone and I don't know why a sunscreen's chemicals, if the bottle is kept in a cabinet, would deteriorate over time. But...

There's about 7 times as many people living on Long Island than there should be, flushing their toilets, fertilizing their lawns, paving over marshes and bogs, putting sea walls on the shoreline, etc.

At 13 billion years old, it's back must be REALLY stiff in the morning!

I believe public nudity is legal in Maine. As a kid, we went to northern Maine each August. It was not until we would take a day trip to Canada that there was anything a teenage boy would be eager to ogle at.

Excellent eeling with Captain Hugh Chancey in Montauk. We started with light's out diamond jigging for sea bass, keeping 3. Also cod, porgies, mackerel, sea robins, bluefish, and a 16" blackfish. Once the tide turned, out came the eels, and we had hookups on almost each drift, with fish pushing 40#

Sorry, no f...in way!

what were the rolling bass hitting? I threw the tackle box at them and couldn't get a sniff.