Cabin Fever..........(S) -- THE MASPETH STOOP

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Date Posted: 08:53:25 04/28/11 Thu
Author: Jimmy
Subject: Cabin Fever..........(S)

I was talking to my fishing buddy Greg last night about fishing for bluefish, codfish and broad-shouldered blackfish. Years ago there wasn’t a month out of the year when we weren’t fishing for something. Winter found me and my dad fishing for herring on one of the bridges on either the Meadowbrook or Wantagh parkways, near Jones Beach. Cod were also in the winter mix, but having to travel all the way out to Montauk kept the number of trips down to a minimum. As the weather got warmer, winter flounder, porgies and lafayettes came on the scene, although I haven’t seen anyone catch a lafayette in at least 35 years.
“Summertime brought in the fluke, weakfish and stripers, along with copious amounts of blackfish on the north shore of Long Island at Port Jefferson and Mount Sinai.
“The ‘dog days’ of August signalled the arrival of numerous blueclaw crabs on the south shore of Long Island, with much of the action within the confines of Jamaica Bay and Hook Creek. Residents of Broad Channel and the Raunt would brag that they could catch blueclaws by dropping a net out their back windows.
“On good crabbing trips, we were generally able to supply the entire neighborhood of Bushwick with crabs. We had crabs in the bathtub, in the kitchen sink and one time we even had a washtub out on the fire escape with these succulent crustaceans.
“We also did a lot of mackerel fishing, mostly southeast of New York City at ‘Ambrose Lightship.’ Mackerel fishing is hard work. If you had a rig with 8 hooks, going through a school of mackerel you generally pulled in eight fish at a time. We usually brought a bushel basket with us on the boat, plus some burlap bags. These generally were filled to capacity after only an hour or so of fishing. Because mom thought mackerel were too greasy, when we got home most of the fish went to neighbors.
“Living in landlocked northeast Pennsylvania for the past eighteen years, my saltwater fishing excursions have been limited to about one per year. The people here don’t fish the same, and I really don’t care for freshwater fishing.
“Some time in the future I am going to find a place on Long Island, and I’ll be able to get back to my favorite pastime, full time!”(happy)

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