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Sports/Outdoors
Montauk Fishing Season Opens
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Sailing on a windy start of opening day, party boat Lady Grace limited out on fluke up to 71/2 lbs. Miss Montauk reeled in quite a bunch up to 91/2 lbs. and Lazy Bones took up to 71/2 lbs. over the rail. Jack Yee is making his rounds in his maroon Honda. Reports of huge schools of bass near Cartwright’s over
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By Eugenia Bartell “What’s happenin’?” roared Paulie over the surfcasters, the crowd, the music, and the race that were all part of the opening day of the Fluke Season. On one of the most gorgeous days in Montauk thus far this season, the First Montauk Music Festival rocked the Village Green on Saturday from Noon to 5 p.m. Montauk’s Shagwong Bar/Restaurant was the all-day scene for bets on the Preakness, the second race for the Triple Crown. The ocean was filled with an ‘armada’ of fishing boats and Paulie’s Tackle Shop was buzzing. Once again, Paul reminded the surfcasters that the best bait for fluke is fresh, local spearing and squid. Two of the better methods used for fluke, recommended by Paul and ace, veteran surfcaster Marshall Helfand, are Glow Bucktails, tipped with a long strip of squid or spearing or both, and Tsunami plastic squid bodies, rigged on a 4/0 or 5/0 Gamakatsu Octopus hook, snelled to a 4-6 foot 40 lb. Fluorocarbon leader.
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the past week are exactly what the surf rats love to hear. Ditch Plains has been the place for 10-15-lb. stripers. There’s nothing like reeling in that fish with its wide black stripes that decorate its mass of shiny silvery scales. All entries are in for the first Montauk Locals Spring Bass Shoot Out, which kicked off May 14th at 12:01a.m. and will end July 3rd at 10 a.m. With 52 surfcasters and the entry fee of $100, the cash prize for the heaviest bass is $5,200! Paulie’s Tackle is the official weigh-in station. The awards ceremonies will begin at noon on Saturday, July 3 at Paulie’s. Last June, fantastic surfcaster Mike Coppola, who’d had a rough time breaking 40 lbs., smashed it when he reeled in his 55.75 lb bass. On Saturday, Mike brought that very same striper to Paulie’s, skin mounted by North East Taxidermy Studios. Taking almost a year to mount, it was well worth it, for it is absolutely one of the finest works of taxidermy, the most difficult branch of this kind of art. To accurately recreate the anatomy and to restore all of the colorations as well is a major feat. Bass with their tough skins are good candidates for skin mount. After the bass is skinned, the skin is preserved with the natural skull still attached along with the fins and tail. A beaming Coppola, taking a break from Manhattan, with his grammar school pal and fishing buddy, James Mallon, loves escaping to Montauk and the Coppola family home to do what they love best. Fifteen year old Nick Bocchino, the highly respected and admired surfcaster and part of Paulie’s crew, arrived for the weekend after building a lot more plugs during the winter, including a huge 20-inch plug to hang in the tackle shop. What a talented, good looking, extraordinary surfer dude with a fantastic grasp of what Montauk surfcasting is all about. Bocchino, a wetsuiter who “throws eels” said, “I can’t wait to start!” Just a reminder: Fluke keepers, 21” and a limit of two per day, Stripers, 28” and 2 per day. You all catch ‘em up; we’ll catch you next week.
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