So.

Here I am again burning the midnight oil getting issue 4 ready for Tuesday. A little snip- snip here. Streeeeeeetch -stretch there. The coffee is hot and My wife and daughter are long asleep.

For some reason My creative process will not kick in until the gun is to the head.

Until the deadline is swinging like a large rusted wreckingball.

This drives my friend and partner absolutely bat-shit crazy. I think I take this poor guy to the brink of sanity and back every issue. My wife says I have a “P” branded on my chest. This “P” stands for Procrastination Man. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…tomorrow.

Months of preparation go into every Issue.

Dozens of phone calls.

Hundreds of emails.

Then I swoop down in the final minutes like a Tern over a pencil popper. I peck at it a few times, dodge the trebles and fly away. But my partner is the one working that plug day after day.

Cast and retrieve. Cast and retrieve.

Hopefully one day a big multinational corporation will smack that plug clear out of the water, buy SJ for a million bucks and My friend can retire to Cutty. Or the plug will get worked through a school of Interns to field all the calls and emails. Until that happens I’m sure he will keep casting away.

For all the headaches and stress this magazine is HIS baby. It is something truly unique and to tell you the truth it is AWESOME. So I guess the whole point of the bloodshot, coffee crazed blog entry is to give some long overdue kudos to my friend Zeno. Thanks to You we made it 4 frigging issues!  Come up on the beach, put the rod down and take a bow my brother.

-Tommy Corrigan

1:49 am september 6, 2010

• New England super sharpie Steve McKenna
• New Jersey author and guide DJ Muller
• New York surfcaster extraordinaire Crazy Albert Knie
• New poem by a Montauk sharpie Vito Orlando
• Interview with a one of the today’s most popular lure builders
• Kick butt recipe spread by a NY Chef/Surfcaster Andrew Chase
• John Papciak on current state of striped bass fisheries
• Charles Witek on conservation
• Our resident Rod Guru Lou Caruso
• Profile of a New England sharpshooter
• Expanded Gear Review sections
• More original videos from Surfcaster’s Journal
• and more….

yeah, we been busy while you frolicked in the surf all summer

From our friends at NY Office of  Coastal Conservation Association (http://www.joincca.org/)

Commercial increase still threatens striped bass

               On July 21, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission held a hearing at the DEC offices in East Setauket, with respect to a proposal that would increase the coastal commercial quota of striped bass.  It is a controversial topic, and one made even more controversial by the fact that the proposal is based on neither biology nor economics.

               Currently, the population of adult striped bass is in a state of decline.  Due to some instances of low spawning success in the producer areas, the population of adult (age 8+) striped bass is expected to decline at least through 2015 (and beyond, should spawning success decline further).  The decline is already being reflected in angling catch, which fell by more than 65% in just 4 years, between 2006 and 2009 (preliminary harvest estimates for April-June of this year indicate that a further decline has taken place).  In addition, Read More→

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.

But as great as an accomplishment this was, Read More→