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Our columnist, with what he described as a ‘pretty’ false albacore.
We’ve rounded the last turn and are heading down the home stretch toward the last weeks of local fishing for the year.
Historically, the fall has been the best time to get out on the water and chase a variety of fish that have, under normal conditions, always come our way as the waters cooled. The bluefish and striped bass, which usually show up over the summer, were a huge disappointment to almost all of us from Shelter Island, with “catch counts” at all time lows and the fish caught generally paltry in size.
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