If you want to fish Cuttyhunk.... you better start exercising those legs.

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by piemma

Christ. Next year the "new" hot spot will be Fishers Island.

Peimma, You might be right.

[Goose]

There is no way in hell a place like CH would have been kept hush. We knew about it but didn't know about it before Greg. It was a learning adventure for all of us, we where mostly blind, now all the guys have to do is send a few pm's (if they're aren't spilling their gutts on their own) and then people wonder why the eff'in place looks like a christmas tree in the middle of a summer weekend. I along with others walked around island looking for spots...now people want it handed to'um. Its is the site but more so some of the people on it.

[Swimmer]

Cutty is almost like Quick's Hole. For decades I heard about the legendary cows that came from both places. I have never stepped foot on Cutty but I fished within casting distance of shore many times, many times. I have fished Quick's and the surrounding area. Like all places they become popular because some of us have chosen to go there and talk about it later. Its not that many huge fish were caught by the guys here there, but that over the years many guys have spread the legendary word about a few of the cows that were either caught on or very near Cutty. I think I'll have to make the trip before the whole island closes down for good.

[JohnR]

Goose - we all knew about Cutty and wanted to go. Greg was nice enough to get us together for it...

I've run into plenty of people of the years that have fished Cutty from shore more than once, visited friends on the Island, stayed at an Inn, or sailed in to drop anchor in the harbor and have Avon races with the kids.

I don't see how anyone could possibly feel that 20 shore anglers on a weekend working a shoreline AWAY from everyone else could impact that place on 100th of what the Hampton Regatta Club does when they have a sail-a-thon to the "Best Kept Secret Destination" in the northeast. Yes, Cutty is consistantly ranked very high in all kinds of sail and power boat and cruising journals, plus everything from the WSJ to Yachting.

The pressure on that island is immense, the amount of pressure on that Island from surfcasters is miniscule. We, as a group, often look at out impact or success through the common eyes of anglers. Sometimes we see the impact from our perspective yet neglect to consider other major factors, and in this case significantly greater impact of the public at large on that island.

If you put every fishing rag together plus the internet, the total reach must be 5% of the reach of all the boating / cruising / destination mags. Anyone that has seen the harbor fill on a friday night with yacht after yacht trailing in single file at 1 minute intervals should recognize that 20 guys surfcasting (which is probably far higher than the norm) will have negligible impact on that island.

[Swimmer]

I think we should have a fill up the ferry group fishing trip for the spring to the new secret destination. When we arrive we all walk off the ferry like we dont know each other and then meet up at a prearranged "secret spot" to plunder the fishes!

[DJ Muller]

I have fished Cuttyhunk, I have fished the Vineyard, I have fished Jamestown, Montauk, on and on it goes. I have had good nights on the Hunk, but better and "bigger' nights on the Vineyard, on Jamestown, on Montauk too, as well as Jersey. Being in the right place at the right time pays some huge dividends...sometimes. I have also fished some "unbelievable" locales where I have fished a week straight with nothing but dinks. Cuttyhunk is strategically good, but it is not the only "mecca" on the planet. I have come home from there with "little" or nothing. It comes down to...what makes happen for you. the CC canal, the outer Cape, Plum Island...whatever. If you enjoy it and it satisfies you...go for it! And enjoy it. Cuttyhunk is only one of hundreds!