To the west was the mouth of a fertile river (the Hudson) packed with oysters, more stripers, sturgeon, shad, porgies and bluefish.
"It is easy to juggle the numbers to make a particular point, " said salmon activist Scott Levy, director and producer of RedFish Bluefish.
Last summer I kayak fished with him amid 6-foot swells, as all around us hungry bonito and bluefish chased thousands of inch-long sand eels.
Women should follow their own state's advisories and steer clear of older, fattier fish, such as bluefish from bay areas or trout from lakes.
When the water gets cold, from December to March, many head south again, fattening up on bluefish, menhaden and squid near shipwrecks off Hatteras Island and Morehead City.
Standing on the bow of Captain Frank Crescitelli's 25-foot boat, preparing to cast a fly into Jamaica Bay, we expect another hit from a feisty bluefish or burly striped bass.
The fishing tournament, in which captains and their sports try to catch (and release) the biggest striper, bluefish and weakfish from the harbor on bait, artificial lures or a fly, was in its 15th year.
But check this out: the state has Montauk, Long Island Sound and all the southern beaches of Long Island which, together, might make for the best striped bass, bluefish and false albacore fishing in the nation.
Coastal fisherman know that when a flock of seagulls is circling and diving into the sea a school of bluefish is often driving bait fish towards the surface and the anglers hasten to cast their lines into the frothy water beneath the screeching birds.
Welcome to urban angling, New York style, where if you can put up with a little floating trash, an occasional whiff of jet fuel and the cacophony of New York Harbor, you can catch fat, healthy striped bass, bluefish, weakfish--all of them safe to eat, in moderation.
Take too many menhaden and you damage the populations of bluefish and striped bass that feed on them. (Not so, says the company.) At the moment Omega Protein is allowed to fish only in the waters off six states, and two of those have caps on its harvests.
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