April showers bring more than May flowers, they bring plenty of striped bass. Always during the second to third week of the month, an inevitable Nor’Easter rumbles through, churning up the waters and ushering in the first droves of bass in full force along the…
Long Island Boating World
April is here and so too with it the start of another open-water fishing season in Southern New England. This was a very mild winter by most standards with, as of the writing of this month’s piece, zero accumulation of snow at my house for…
Come April, most of us have probably gotten some bass by shore in the back bays, creeks, and estuaries on the east end on soft plastics and small surface plugs. To the west large migrating stripers coming up the coast of jersey and down from…
“Over the years you swam the ocean, following dreams that were your own, now you are washed up on the shoreline. I can see your body lie. It’s a shame you have to die………… It’s not that we don’t know, it’s just that we don’t…
This is part two of cruising to Pitcairn Island, the home of the mutineers of the HMAV Bounty and the world’s most remote island. Part one in last month’s Long Island Boating World can be read at www.liboatingworld.com or by emailing tab@tabhauser.com. Last month’s covered…
In 1626 an army of loggers was ordered by the King of Sweden, King Gustav II Adolf, to various estate forests in Sweden where they cut down a thousand of the finest giant oak trees and piled them onto barges. The logs were barged down…
The remains of one of the most famous vessels in history may have washed up last fall at Fire Island National Seashore.A 13-foot-by-13-foot section of ribs and planking from what appears to be an early 19th century sailing vessel came ashore during Tropical Storm Ian…
By the year 2030 the US Census predicts 20% of us will be 65 or older. The New York Times is worried about the prospects of the financial challenge of so many of us living longer. If you look around your marina you’ll probably find…
Bill Sisson grew up along the shore in Watch Hill and describes himself as, “one of a small group of gangly, feral boys who spent hours at the Watch Hill Lighthouse scouring the low-tide rocks for lost fishing gear, terrifying both fish and one another…
“Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge It’s a simple three-atom molecule element that covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface at depthsup to 6-1/2 miles deep.…