Jim Levison Montauk Blitz Photos

Jim Levison has been photographing the outdoors for the past twenty years. For the last eleven years Jim has been guiding salt water fly and light tackle anglers off the fabled waters of Montauk Point, New York in search of striped bass, blue fish and false albacore.

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Check out his salt and freshwater fishing galleries too.

Montauk Bass Blitz

From Peter Correale on Vimeo.

(via: Fishing Jones)

Striped Bass War, 20 Years On

East Hampton baymen and supporters, including Billy Joel

In the Town of East Hampton, the fight over striped bass became a civil war that pitted some of Montauk’s charter fishing fleet against their baymen neighbors. It was an angry time. 

Billy Joel, whose 1989 hit “Downeaster Alexa” told the story of a bayman regulated out of his inshore bass fishery, raised the profile of the protest.

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False Albie Action

I never get tired of watching fat albie action.

And the man in the back said everyone attack

October in Montauk means blitzing blues, bass and albies.

Blitz!

Patagonia colleague Ken Lagerveld recently snapped this great shot of a small slice of a Montauk blitz.