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FAMED FENCE JUMPING EVENT HELD OVER THE WEEKEND: 

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This kinda reflects the suspicion that striped bass have learned to stay out in the EEZ. …

Standing guard in Holgate. 

Thursday, December 27, 2018: It’s a veritable dog day afternoon out…

Tuesday, December 25, 2018: The Atlantic Ocean, LBI Division, gets no flatter than it is today. When surfing, I dubbed it Lake Atlantic. Such fully laid-down conditions have become a total rarity in recent wild-weather years.

Not that there’s a whole bunch to do out there, fishing-wise. A few folks are trying, though. I’m hearing of real small, one-hander bass taking bloodworms.…

Note: The snowys currently hanging in Holgate and other LBI areas mainly eat other birds. I base this on the dozen or so boluses (regurgitated balls) I've opened, though one had mouse material. .…

Friday, December 21, 2018: Let’s see, my vacation began yesterday afternoon. That was right about when it began raining and flooding. My first full day off, as in today, makes yesterday look like a bargain. Island is puddled under, with some bay flooding mixed in. It’s so drab that even a trip to Holgate wasn't worth the journey, although I sometimes use drabness as a photo op, looking for that, uh, drab look. Something about a rain-soaked snowy owl elicits that odd “poor…

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Tuesday, December 18, 2018: Ocean is getting smoothed by west winds. Blowout tides should allow some clamming by tomorrow, as my vacation commences ... knee-deep in mud. Works for me.   

For buggyists, virtually all entry points onto the beach were impossibly sanded over during Sunday’s…

Perfect time of year for these schoolie striper lures. 

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Solitary ... but far from lonely ... Not dead; returned to…

Video: Check out this massive sand buildup, just west of the Holgate Refuge's northern reaches. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuBVcX6Zo0 . 

This is where a load of replen sand has gone. Ironically, the pumped in sand was meant to create an oceanfront beach and it is seemingly…

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I'd advise heading way south ... …

Friday, November 30, 2018: Finally had a dang decent Holgate day. I had actually become fairly disenchanted with the far south end. Yes, that’s me saying that, a Holgate aficionado for over 50 years. But, this fall, it had become an unproductive, even tedious, journey to the Island’s far southlands,…

Frank Ruczynski ...  Striped bass for dinner…

Monday, November 26, 2018: More downpours – and once again of a squally nature, meaning the rain is coming down in bursts, a tad tropics-like. While the wind is tame…