Monday, April 18, 2016

If the fishing is good it might keep voters away from casting their ballots.

There is some observation that she slumped about this time in 2008. She should put on her waders and remind them how important it is to vote to maintain clean water and air and beautiful habitat for Striped Bass.

This fashion statement never makes it to the runway, but, perhaps it should.

Caddis Systems Deluxe Wome's Breathable Stocking Foot Wader, 2-Tone Taupe (click here)

We never see Hillary Clinton on the golf course or on the beach or in fishing streams. She should consider nurturing that side of herself to display it to voters. Maybe she likes scrap booking better, but, certainly she has passion for a sport somewhere in her life. She should consider her profile as a real person with real interests.

April 14, 2016
By Alex Kenney

The striped bass bite (click here) is on again in the Hudson River above the George Washington Bridge. That word comes from anglers near Croton and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge area.
It is welcome news, too, since fishing had slowed due to recent heavy rain and then murky run-off.
Anglers are enticing keepers with bloodworms and fresh bait.
Meanwhile, Capt. Chris, on one of his Island Current trips from City Island in Long Island Sound, continues his successful scouting for winter flounder around Oyster Bay.
And on the other side of Long Island, Capt. Dave Paris on his Capt. Dave III from Sheepshead Bay, plans more of his productive daytime flounder fishing in Jamaica Bay.
But he’s also looking forward to launching his nightly evening striped bass trips with today’s opening of New York’s marine bass fishing season. The skipper’s first destination: clamming in Raritan Bay.....

Sports are a real part of the American economy. Even Little League has an economic value.

April 13, 2016
By Monte Burke

A year or so after I moved to New York City (click here) —a disorienting experience for this obsessed fly fisherman—I came across a book called L.L. Bean Fly Fishing For Striped Bass Handbook. It wasn’t until then, I guess, that I fully realized that these great fish are abundant in the waters surrounding the city. This book became pretty much my manual for pursuing them. It was written by a man named Brad Burns.

A few years later, Burns co-authored another book, Fly Fishing For Saltwater’s Finest, with the late, great John Cole. And just last year, he published his first book about another great species, the Atlantic salmon. Closing The Season is a beautiful tome about salmon fishing on New Brunswick’s Miramichi and Cains rivers, where Burns happens to have some water....

For me it was horses, my middle sister tennis and my youngest sister was ridiculously athletic. She played soft ball from the age of 9 through high school graduation. She went to Kean College and was on the semi-pro softball team that traveled the east coast.

She finally got married and my mother who thinks knitting is an athletic accomplishment (I have nothing against knitting, but, it is not a sport.) thought the sports ventures would end and she would settle down. Not. She married a man that played fast pitch softball all his young life.

As a matter of fact my youngest sister became more athletic after she was married. She played softball and when the season was over she became an ice hockey goalie. So did her spouse. They recently celebrated their 25th anniversary after watching her youngest son graduate from college on a LaCrosse scholarship.

She is about to cross the age 50 mark and her injuries of the past are haunting her, so now she simply privately coaches young high school women into softball scholarships. Everyone of them have left home for college without paying a dime for their education. She is something. But, the point is she is not alone. There are women all over the country athletic and real achievers. They love it. 

Bass fishing. Yep.