as for me…I am going to make few casts before work….get my kicks in before the storm makes beach a mess

August is only a memory now, and even those who hang on to the summer  will have to admit that the fall run is around the corner.

New fall, new promise of blitzing fish, new adventures and meeting new people

How about new plugs?

If you haven’t heard of BigFish Bait Co and the man behind the curtain, Larry Wentworth, now you will. Live and in living color… Read More→

Some people will influence your life without ever having a benefit of meeting them. When I joined High Hill Striper Club I was in awe of a then current roster that included such exceptional surfcasters like Fred Schwab and William Doc Muller. Only when I set out to create the clubs first website did I dug a deeper in the fabric of the club and its illustrious history.

One name that stood if not above all, then head and shoulders with such before mentioned surf legends and guys like Jack Frech was Bob Rance. Having caught a monstrous 58 pound 12 ounce striped bass in Montauk in 1964, something that to this day remains a official club record, was enough to insure that his name would forever be associated with the club.

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the plan was to hit the inside the inlet with a 7 foot rod then kill the slack at the inlet jetty, then change in a wetsuit and hit the inlet bar on the drop and if that doesn’t work , hit the oceanfront sandbar in the wetsuit. That some ambitious plan, huh?

Northwest wind laid down the surf, so the only thing I have to worry is the sharks…no big deal

what do they say about best laid plans…..

8 pm

inside the inlet looking for a weakfish with a 7 for St Croix Legend, VS 150 and a 1/2 ounce bucktail with 240s pork rind. The weapon of choice…wind dies and its freaking stuffy…clean water  but nothing doing…rethinking my strategy

9 pm

bump on a bucktail just as I was about to give up on the spot. Then a low teen fish…then the wind starts blowing. After the night before throwing the snakes into a hard NW wind I wanted no part of it.

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