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What’s Up With Cuttings Pond?

If you have driven through the infamous Oakdale Merge recently, and glanced to the south, you may have noticed that the once full lake nestled between Sunrise Highway and Montauk Highway has been drained of its water.

Catch ‘em Úp

Are you receiving our weekly email alerts? On Mondays we send out a news update with updated fishing reports, while every Thursday I do a little video forecast for the weekend ahead.

It’s Hurricane Season

It seems kind of early, but “Hurricane Season” officially began on June 1 according to the National Hurricane Center.

Sea Bass: Same Old Song

It’s become a common refrain this time of year and I hear it from friends, readers, captains and tackle shop owners.

Social Justice

According to records obtained by USA TODAY, NFL linebacker Von Miller recently avoided legal action after being photographed posing with a hammerhead shark in April 2018 off the coast of Miami.

In the Bag

Starting June 1, single-use plastic bags are officially banned in the town of Brigantine.

Casting Stones

On April 18, a young man from Pennsylvania fishing with his two young sons on the Jersey side of the Delaware River hooked up with the striper of a lifetime.

Fisheries Back in Washington Spotlight

The national debate over our federal fisheries law, the Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson), returned to Capitol Hill as the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife convened on May 1 for an oversight hearing on “The State of Fisheries.”

Them Apples

Imagine a large apple orchard, where big, juicy apples ripen on trees throughout the summer; an abundance of fruit waiting to be plucked in the fall!

Howdy, partner!

Fishing can be both a social undertaking as well as a way to clear one’s mind in solitude.

Line recycling tubes

What a Mess

Today I went for a short, early-morning outing for striped bass.

Big Apple

Back in 2006, the folks at The Fisherman headquarters in Shirley, NY asked me up to join the Long Island team at our home office.

Striped Bass Do Si Do

Call it the Striped Bass Do Si Do, or maybe a little Hokey Pokey; I’m not 100 percent up on what dance moves the kids are doing these days since I stopped doing the “Running Man” and the “Cabbage Patch” a long time ago, but this feels like little more than a square dance gone wrong to me.