Do you like to fish? I ask people that all the time, and it’s not surprising to me that lots of people do like to fish. Not surprising, because I like to fish, and it’s never surprising when people like what you like. The flip side, of course, is that it’s always at least a [...]
The spring striped bass season is over and done with. The mackerel have moved on and, with them, the teeming hordes of stripers hanging out to feed on them. There are still bass to be had, but you have to go farther and deeper for fewer. We’ll do some of that, but our summer fishing [...]
It’s been all fishing, all the time around here lately, and I know that those of you who are interested in the garden, the chickens, the turkeys, the pigs, the recipes, or current events can barely stifle your yawns. But, hey, that’s the nature of seasonality! Each month I get to bore a different segment [...]
The mackerel are going to leave any day now, and I will be sorry to see them go. For the last six weeks they’ve been schooling in Cape Cod Bay, about a mile or two outside the channel that leads into Barnstable Harbor. And I’m guessing we’ve caught at least 200 of them. Although I [...]
It was about a week ago that I posted a fish-frame APB. What on earth, I wondered, could I do with all the striped bass carcasses Kevin and I were left with after we stripped them of their filets. And you responded with characteristic resourcefulness and ingenuity. After reading all your suggestions, it was clear [...]
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