06.09.2014 Outdoors Outdoors: New fishing regulations seen as mostly positive What a difference a week makes! Before May 1, if you looked at the 2014 summer flounder (“fluke”) regulations, you saw a minimum size limit of 19 inches, a...
05.25.2014 Sports Outdoors: Tackling fishing test lines A few weeks ago we got a call from an editor to write a piece on scup, our favorite saltwater panfish, maybe our favorite fish, period. But the angle...
04.13.2014 Sports Outdoors: Dealing with plastics and other waste In our throwaway world, early spring can be depressing. When we travel the highways of the Northeast, the snow-covered winter trash emerges in ugly profusion as the snow recedes....
03.30.2014 Sports Outdoors: Alas, March continues to roar like a lion As we write a late March column, it’s fun to look out a window and see blue sky. In the morning, on the way to work, I hear competing...
03.16.2014 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Rescue animals come with histories The death of a family dog can be tough, even when anticipated. When our 14-year-old rescue Brittany, Bandit, (registered under “Becasse Bandit” — becasse is French for woodcock) had...
02.16.2014 Sports Outdoors: Buses and rails make for good traveling options Winter travel is indeed tricky for the outdoors person, especially if you’ve set up an extensive trip. Headed for the islands to do some tropical fishing? Headed for the...
02.03.2014 Sports Outdoors: Those old catalogs bring back fond memories The calendar on our wall tells us the solstice is only seven weeks away. Spring training begins when pitchers and catchers report in three weeks! Yet, as each arctic...
08.19.2012 Sports Fishing Report The Prime Time III out of Orient by the Sea was “catching everything under the sun,” according to Capt. Mike Boccio on Monday morning. Scup numbers are up, and...
08.13.2012 Sports Fishing Report Warm water (84 degrees in Long Island Sound) hasn’t hurt the scup fishing according to Dave Brennan, skipper of the Peconic Star II out of Greenport. Overall, the fishing...
08.12.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Finding your way the old-fashioned way We were going to a restaurant the other night with old friends who trialed field dogs with us over the years and asked for directions. One of them pulled...