Cue the Gummy Eel

Savvy fly-rodders continue to keep a sharp eye for schools of mullet, and always have a few Siliclones, Bucktail Deceivers and other big flies that resemble mullet, herring and bunker in their fly box, but the go-to fly they tie on before making the first cast is now a sand-eel pattern.

LINK (via: On the Water)

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.

LINK (via: The East Hampton Star)