Sports • Published Nov 18, 2024 01 am
Creeping into our lives, most notably via connectivity with computer applications, has been Artificial Intelligence (AI). This phenomenon has been evolving behind the sce...
Sports • Published Nov 11, 2024 11 am
What drives innovations in fishing tackle? Is it fish, forage, change in habitat, technology, or the never-ending drive to satisfy fishers in their quest for new and bett...
Sports • Published Nov 04, 2024 09 am
Let your imagination run wild for a moment. If a six foot tarpon can be caught off a beach in Cape Cod while shark fishing at night in 2023, what challenge can Long Islan...
Sports • Published Oct 24, 2024 12 am
Because striped bass (Marone saxatilis) is one of the most pursued recreational fish species along the Atlantic coast, maintaining a healthy stock biomass is crucial to ...
Sports • Published Oct 13, 2024 10 pm
A weekday opening of fall’s blackfish (tautog) season coincided with cooler air temperatures and a slight drop in water temperatures. Those Northern Lights were awesome. ...
Sports • Published Oct 07, 2024 02 am
The only big loser here will be crabs, as the fall blackfish (tautog) season sparks a high level of enthusiasm. Thursday, Oct. 10 has eagerly been awaited - even more so ...
Sports • Published Sep 30, 2024 10 am
Enhancing and modernizing recreational fisheries data collection through crowd-sourced citizen science, remote sensing, and emerging AI technology via a well thought-out ...
Sports • Published Sep 23, 2024 02 am
National Hunting and Fishing (NHF) Day 2024, a federally recognized holiday, falls on Saturday, Sept. 28. A signed proclamation signed in 1972 recognizes the tradition of...
Sports • Published Sep 16, 2024 12 am
A fisher does not have to be a kid to enjoy scup fever. Similar to snapper bluefish that have always attracted a crowd, young fishers invariably break into fishing the br...
Sports • Published Sep 09, 2024 12 am
A quote from Captain Morgan’s column (Sharks and Stripers are Here, but What of the Bites?) published on Aug. 4 stated “there is ample time for an increase in striped bas...
Sports • Published Aug 29, 2024 11 pm
Striped bass are setting up for an early fall run. It is in the air, and for the moment, water temperatures bear that out. To reinforce that statement, hard tails have al...
Sports • Published Aug 26, 2024 02 am
Long Island Sound water temperatures have been taking a dip coinciding with early cooler air that has been on a gradual roller coaster ride. It does not take much for fis...
Sports • Published Aug 18, 2024 10 pm
Atlantic coast bluefish population (Pomatomus saltatrix) had become overfished and had been experiencing overfishing in almost every year since 1985. Due to management co...
Sports • Published Aug 11, 2024 10 pm
Before you know it, fall will be here, as the equinox arrives on Sunday, Sep. 22 at 8:44 a.m. In about a month, Long Island Sound will wake up from a not particularly dol...
Sports • Published Aug 04, 2024 10 pm
Are striped bass learning and becoming more leery of sharks in Long Island Sound? Sharks in the Sound are not a new occurrence. They have been cohabiting with fish and pe...
Sports • Published Jul 29, 2024 03 am
We in fisheries management look to protect the young class of fish in order to ensure their health in the future and ability to fulfill the biological process of procreat...
Sports • Published Jul 22, 2024 09 am
Invariably, when marine fishers band together for a salty talk, adopted regulations creep into the conversation - sometimes quite emphatically. Even though the health of ...
Sports • Published Jul 15, 2024 03 am
Travel is up! As multi-cultural fishers and non-fishers pour into the country, we sometimes forget how many of our country folk criss-cross the states as well as travel a...
Sports • Published Jul 08, 2024 01 am
With the striped bass slot limit squeezed to 3” (28-31”) in order to decrease mature female mortality, there are considerably more images taken of large fish before being...
Sports • Published Jun 27, 2024 10 pm
July 4, 1776 is a significant date in United States history. It was then that representatives from the American colonies met in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of In...
Sports • Published Jun 24, 2024 01 am
Over the years, people and places change. It is never more evident than when reacquainting past times with fishers that have drifted apart and circumvented the compass, e...
Sports • Published Jun 17, 2024 01 am
Certain species of fish found in the area encompassing Long Island Sound can startle a fisher when their fishing rod bends, and a subsequent hard unrelenting run baffles ...
Sports • Published Jun 10, 2024 02 am
By Gabby Hurlbut
Striped bass fever has taken over the coastal and near-shore waters of New England - particularly the southern regions. More scientifically referred to as Morone saxatili...
Sports • Published Jun 02, 2024 10 pm
Move over striped bass! Is it the mass migration of baitfish up the coast or the warming waters? The striped bass bite has been repeatedly over the top, but a surge of ch...
Sports • Published May 24, 2024 09 am
On May 30, and throughout this weekend, we honored and mourned United States military patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice while serving in our Armed Forces as prayer...
Sports • Published May 20, 2024 03 am
As days turn into weeks, the never-ending flow of fishers expands, and it becomes apparent that those who put in the time catch fish. Those who do not either get lucky or...
Sports • Published May 13, 2024 01 am
Black Sea bass (Centropristis striata) is a fishery that inhabits Atlantic coastal waters from the Gulf of Maine to the Florida Keys with minimal concentrations in Connec...
Sports • Published May 06, 2024 01 am
The striped bass bite continued to intensify, as shore fishers and an increase in boat activity took advantage of the range of linesiders available. Unlike today’s brick ...
Sports • Published Apr 29, 2024 03 am
Put all of your trusted ways of anticipating the arrival of striped bass aside. If you are still anticipating, waiting to wet a line or hear the news, you are missing a s...
Sports • Published Apr 22, 2024 02 am
The swords are rattling for further changes in Atlantic herring regulations, since the stock is viewed by many as severely overfished. Atlantic herring has been in a rebu...
Sports • Published Apr 15, 2024 02 am
Coincidentally, Catch and Keep day fell on the old traditional Opening Day of trout season. Stocking has been top-rate, as multiple stockings have already taken place in ...
Sports • Published Apr 08, 2024 03 am
Have you noticed the number of anglers who have headed out or are returning from fishing adventures in what used to be far away locations? Flights are becoming more direc...
Sports • Published Apr 01, 2024 02 am
By Gabby Hurlbut
For a relatively small body of water, Long Island Sound sure can give up a record tog when it feels like it. We have seen togs suffer through being designated as overfish...
Sports • Published Mar 25, 2024 12 am
Summer flounder, often referred to as chameleons of the sea because they can change coloration to blend with their bottom habitat, have been the cause of many meetings an...
Sports • Published Mar 18, 2024 02 am
60-degree May weather in March, and April showers, appear to have come a month early. Then raise the bar from higher daily lows to recently experiencing more of the mid-5...
Sports • Published Mar 11, 2024 12 am
Optimistically, the 2024 fishing season will pick up from last year, as several of the key species finished off strong. However, people can’t forget having to first survi...
Sports • Published Mar 04, 2024 12 am
A Marine Recreational Regulations Informational webinar meeting, primarily concerning summer flounder and scup, was held on Feb. 28. Much of what was reviewed had been di...
Sports • Published Feb 25, 2024 08 pm
Law enforcement has dogs that are used to sniff out contraband, drugs, explosives, people, and the like. But fish? You better believe it! Word is out all along the banks ...
Sports • Published Feb 19, 2024 02 am
Looking out over the wetlands in winter is much different than rubbing elbows with them during the summer months. Void of most color and quite drab looking in the quiet s...
Sports • Published Feb 15, 2024 12 am
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is one of the schooling fish species that can be fished recreationally during the cold months of December through February. During that...
Sports • Published Feb 05, 2024 12 am
NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center needs your help! Most fishers who fish Long Island Sound and surrounding waters have heard and/or seen the predation that sharks (...
Sports • Published Jan 29, 2024 12 am
A hot topic brought up at almost every fishery management meeting relates to fishing regulations, stock assessments, and surveys. In particular, marine recreational ones ...
Sports • Published Jan 21, 2024 11 pm
NOAA Fisheries Final Rule for 2024 and Projected Specifications for the Summer Flounder and Scup Fisheries for 2025 has been released. In both cases, it calls for coast-w...
Sports • Published Jan 15, 2024 10 am
Currently, there are two stocks of Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) that are managed along the Atlantic coast - New England/Mid-Atlantic, and South Atlantic stocks....
Sports • Published Jan 08, 2024 10 am
Bluefish catches have gained traction in the past few years, up from the paltry numbers and sizes of recreational catches, and prior to National Oceanic and Atmospheric A...
Sports • Published Dec 29, 2023 10 am
Memorable, unusual and rare catches come to mind when scoping out the twelve months of 2023. Taking into account that the year was the wettest on record, and following th...
Sports • Published Dec 18, 2023 12 pm
According to Luke (5:7, 5-11) it is said that commercial fishing businesses were conducted on the Sea of Galilee by fishermen organized into guilds. They provided food fo...
Sports • Published Dec 13, 2023 03 pm
Continuing after enjoying hillsides clothed in unending bouquets of fall colors, we embark into the Christmas season, where leaves are replaced with bright lights and oth...
Sports • Published Dec 04, 2023 11 am
So many notable fishing accomplishments threaded through the 2023 fishing season that if compiled into one logbook, it would be overflowing with photos, comments, and ast...
Sports • Published Nov 27, 2023 11 am
The spotlight continues to be on the status of striped bass, and how the stock assessments will shake out. Ongoing and upcoming public hearings might suggest further adju...
