hot spot

The Cape May Rips attract anglers, bass, bucktails and eels to a fall fishery that features big linesiders.

A revitalized angling arena with boundless opportunity for First State surfcasters.

The North Branch often plays second fiddle to the South Branch, but this swim provides great fall trout and smallmouth action.

Cuttyhunk used to be hallowed ground, a place no one talked about and that fewer visited.

Since Ed Walsh and Friendly’s assumed operation of the Jones Beach Bait Station at Field 10, the fishing piers at the shop’s doorstep have enjoyed a revival of sorts.

Surfcasters with albacore experience know that their best shots at hooking up tunny are from vantage points along the local beaches on this sandy peninsula.

When you look at a map or a satellite image, there are some spots that just kind of reach out and punch you in the teeth—Nobska Point is one of those spots.

Located on the north side of South Oyster Bay, Massapequa Cove is nestled between Biltmore Beach on the east and Alhambra Beach to the west.

Located on the south side of Great South Bay, this stretch of water borders Fire Island.

Execution Rock is home to some wild striped bass, bluefish and blackfish action throughout the spring, summer and fall.

This area’s sweeping currents put fish-holding rips – and the stripers that prowl them – within easy range of thankful surfcasters.

Protected from wind in virtually any direction, this busy North Shore harbor produces stripers, blues, porgy, snappers, fluke and flounder.

This scattered near-shore reef gives up sea bass, porgies, ling, blackfish, stripers, bluefish and even a few cod.

Nestled between the Meadowbrook and Wantagh bridges, these fishing piers sit amidst some of the most productive water on Long Island.

Both boaters and shore anglers converge on this productive piece of fishing real estate throughout the fishing season.

For as long as I can remember, Narrow Bay at the western border of Moriches Bay has been a hotspot for local action.