4/11/04 OK, Boys and Girls, I'm back, alive and kicking - or at least alive. For a while though I was getting a little concerned. Two weeks after getting...

5/31/05 Imagine this: Crappy weather all week followed by great weather for a three day weekend. It's hard to believe that I'm talking about Montauk. Usually...

PS It's a little early in the season to start talking about tuna, but after posting this weeks report, I got a call and the following e-mail from Bradley...

6/5/05 The Star Island Yacht Club is holding their shark tournament next weekend, and they've gone back to the old format of fishing on Friday and...

6/20/05 Finally this past week the sharks started to get caught. Nothing exciting, just a couple of bluesharks a trip, but at least it started. Star...

6/27/05 The Montauk Marine Basin held their annual shark tournament over the weekend, and the results are as follows; 1st Place Overall - "RUTHLESS" - 305...

7/11/05 The Montauk Boatman's and Captain's Association held their annual shark tournament over the weekend, and kind of took it on the chin. Normally a large...

Fins n Feathers lodge in Guatemala has closed down, and their boats are leaving the country. The morbidly curious can drop me a line and I'll send a copy of...

8/30/05 It's kind of hard to believe, but all three of this years three day weekends had great weather. It makes me a little nervous, because I always feel...

Check out the 2005 edition of MONTAUK SPORTFISHING magazine at http://www.montauksportfishing.com/mag2005.htm -- Capt Gene Kelly Montauk Sportfishing - 800...

5/23/05 Somebody should poke old Mother Nature in the ribs to remind her that this is the time of the year that it is supposed to start getting warm. So...

5/24/04 It doesn't get any better than this. Bass and fluke are out of control, with everyone catching their limits and throwing back the excess. The...

6/8/04 Well, the weather guy got it half right. The forecast for Saturday was for showers, periods of rain, easterly wind, etc. Wrong! There was a...

7/5/04 There have been scattered reports about tuna, but nothing red hot yet. Locally there have been a few school bluefins taken. (By locally I mean within...

7/5/04 The MBCA shark tournament was held this past weekend, and the fishing was pretty good. There are still enough blue sharks around to provide...

7/19/04 The main body of bluefins that were hanging around locally have apparently moved east out to the DUMP, and very few stragglers were left behind....

8/2/04 Mid-day Thursday, and I was on the boat, getting ready to go out, and listening to NOAA's report for the upcoming weekend. I thought to myself that it...

8/31/04 I'm a day late getting this out because I didn't get the results from the Grand Slam Tournament until last night. They are as follows; PARTY BOAT...

5/7/05 Well, things aren't great, but they are definitely starting to look up. Surfcasters have been picking away at the bass for a couple of weeks now, and...

11/21/05 Time for a little update on the action. Saturday morning after I picked up my bagel and paper at Gaviola's, I took a turn past the parking lot at...