Mike, I am headed to a graduation on Shelter Island this weekend. I looked on the map and it's not too far from Montauk!!! Heres the deal; I will be down there from Sat night to Mon afternoon. I can't load up the surf sticks on the roof cause' headed to a friend of my girls college graduation party in full battle gear will be too conspicuous. I'm thinking about paking the fly rod and maybe my 2 piece Ben Doer schoolie rod, neither suitable for Montauk I imagine. Do you know anywhere in that are, possibly on the Island itself? I'm sure i can figure it out but I figured I'd ask a dirty New Yorker :) Thanks Mike, I looked for your e-mail but must have erased it. Mine is posted. Is Shelter Island uptown? Maybe I'll have to take the Range Rover instead of the Jeep ;)

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SI itself has some awsome fishing, though I usually prefer to go in June.

Try the creeks on the out going, especially at night. South Ferry at night on an outgoing is often good too just be careful of the fast current.

Dave, never been to Shelter Island, let alone fished it. But, it's in the bay and should be just about perfect for the long wand and a light schoolie stick.

The 8-1/2' BD would be useful at Montauk under calm conditions---but, I think the wind will be blowing E or NE thru the weekend in the 10-15 kt range, and those aren't the winds for flat surf anywhere on the north side. But, you definitely want to drive up there and salivate for a few minutes ;)

Yep, Range Rover season opens this weekend. They'll be out there in force. Probably your best shot is to take the ferry to Orient Point from New London rather than brave the LIE follies. Nice hour and a half ride and you can eyeball the structure at Orient as your docking, and get a look at Plum Gut and some of the nice stuff the boaters get to play around in around Plum and Fisher's Island. Somewhere in that neck of the woods, Bob Rochetta boated his 76.

Mike P (05-23-2001 21:55): Somewhere in that neck of the woods, Bob Rochetta boated his 76.

I thought Bob got his fish at Great Eastern?

I heard it was either the Gut or the Race. You have the IGFA record book? It's still the 50# class record, they should have the general area. I'm not sure how accurate my memory is, but I think it says "Orient Point, NY". Which, no doubt, is the port it was brought into. But if that's also where it was caught, chances are it came out of Plum Gut.

I don't have the record book.

I had to laugh last night at a comment someone threw at me on noreast.com As you might have seen, I got into it with a guy from the Cape who claims he fishes eels on 6# test, who thought I was an idiot for suggesting to Patrick that 12# test was "pushing the envelope" for throwing eels. Anyhow, his buddy shows up late last night and told me that the guy has beached many fish that would be IGFA line-class records on light gear, but never submitted the record application because he doesn't want to give up the spots he's fishing---like, to submit an application, you'd have to state that you caught a fish from "the third point north of the parking lot at Newcomb Hollow", or provide the exact GPS coordinates if you were on a boat. All they require is a general area. When Brad submitted his 12# test Atlantic Bonito record application in 1978, all he had to do was state that it was caught on "Martha's Vineyard Island", not from Wasque Point.

BTW---the last time I looked at the book, all of the records for bass on 6# test and up were fish well over 50 lbs--most are over 60. I'd like to see all the 50s that guy is putting on the beach with 6# test.

At the time Bob set a record, a few weeks later he had an article in the LIF about the night he took her. I really think the article said Great Eastern. As I recall, he said his fish finder had marked fish feeding over a large rock. It was on his second or third drift over the spot he got her.

You might, just might get a Cape Cod 50#er to come in on twleve pound test on an eel IF you know your stuff, AND have a lot of capacity, AND can run fast on the beachsand of the Cape, AND you have sacrificed something dear to Neptune - then I'd give you a one in 10 chance of landing it... Odds improve with a boat - 6# test for a FIFTY? Hehehehe....


...... Still Laughing

..... OK - gotta go to the bathroom now.....

Bluefin caught from shore on 6 pound test.....

You may have trouble landing a TEN pound TROUT with 6 pound test never mind a 50 lb bass. Need a video to prove that one. Maybe the fish were all suicidal and swam to shore like whales beach themselves.

good one ditch