I remember asking the old-timers when they thought the first spring stripers would appear. The answer was always the same: “Stripers show up when the lilacs start blooming.” My fishing […]
THE LURE
Casting Flies for Holdover Trout and Nostalgia
At Gull Pond, fishing is a reprieve from daydreams about the striper run
Friends recently asked me what I fish for during the winter months. It was the evening of our odd one-day cold snap, and we were sitting around slurping fresh oysters […]
BACK SHORE JOURNAL
Tern on the Beach
An easy remedy for avoidable suffering and tragedy
We had just returned from voting in Wellfleet on the warmest day of the June heat wave. My wife and I voted for selectmen and for expensive new equipment for […]
