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Fluke Fishing in the Northeast

The first fish most Long Islanders, like myself, caught as a kid was a fluke.  I can’t remember the limits back then.   Mine was caught on one of the party boats out of Freeport with a bunch of my...

Patience for Big Browns

Two years ago Scott LaRochelle and I were fishing an upper stretch of one of my favorite streams. We had fished a long ways and I was sucking wind and dragging my left knee.  My vehicle was 40 yards...

Early Season Smallmouth

It’s been a long winter! You can say THAT again! But I have some good news for you...the days are getting longer, the temperatures have started to rise and our friends in the south are already slamming those big giant...
surfcaster on east coast

Tunes of the Trade

What’s your fishing soundtrack? Dave Matthews is great for a mako bite in mid June, George Thorogood can get the bass biting on the October moon, and Zeppelin’s In the Evening is the only way to get fish to bite...

Paradise Creek

I can't remember the first time I fished Paradise Creek.  It had to have been nearly 50 years ago with my father.  I remember the stream well because it was where I caught my very first brook trout. I remember...