Plum Gut Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

09/09/19 10:00am

Fish on: Homeward bound

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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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bluefish, Darrin Binder, false albacore, Florocarbon leaders, Lion’s Club’s annual Snapper Fishing Derby, Plum Gut, striped bass, the Race, the Sluiceway

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08/09/19 4:30pm

Sharing his story of a daring rescue at sea 64 years later

by Mahreen Khan

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MAHREEN KHAN PHOTO U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Sherman Anderson, right, with Coast Guard Auxiliary Officer Ted Webb at East End Seaport Museum in Greenport last Wednesday.

Herman Anderson was just 21 years old when he saved the life of a burly man 14 years his senior whose barge was taking on water near the Plum Island Lighthouse Station 64 years ago.

Last week, Mr. Anderson, now 85, told the story of that rescue to an audience at the East End Seaport Museum in Greenport — just miles from where he served for three years as a lighthouse keeper for the U.S. Coast Guard. (more…)

Clinton Conn, East End Seaport Museum i, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Orient Point, Plum Gut, Plum Island, premium, University of Connecticut

Columns

04/06/19 10:00am

Suffolk Closeup: Turning table scraps into energy

by Karl Grossman

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The recent approval by the trustees of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) for a food scraps-to-energy plant, to be built in Yaphank, links to an original purpose of LIPA — to develop safe, alternative means of power.

LIPA was created by the Long Island Power Act of 1985 primarily to prevent the Shoreham nuclear power plant from going into operation and to further safe energy technologies instead. In its three decades, LIPA has emphasized solar and wind power to generate electricity. The green lighting of the food scraps-to-energy plant marks a move to another form of safe energy. (more…)

Natural Currents Energy Services, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, Orient Point, Plum Gut, Roosevelt Island, the East River, Verdant Power

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04/25/18 4:30pm

History Project: Daring raid by patriots on Sag Harbor

by Steve Wick

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COURTESY PHOTO Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs Sr. led the raid to attack the British in Sag Harbor.

On the morning of May 23, 1777, 170 soldiers from several regiments of the American Continental Army crossed Long Island Sound from Guilford, Connecticut, in 13 whaleboats.

By approximately 6 p.m., they were on the beach at the north end of Hashamomuck Pond, what today is Southold’s Town Beach. They portaged their whaleboats over the beach and slipped into the pond, then rowed its length to the point where it empties into Peconic Bay and passed Shelter Island. (more…)

Antonia Booth, Gardiners Bay, Orient Point, Parker Wickham, Peconic Bay, Plum Gut, Return Jonathan Meigs, Sylvester Manor

Columns

09/25/17 2:06pm

Fish On: Do you believe in miracles?

by Larry Winston

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Mike McConnell with a beautiful striper caught last week off Plum Island.

After impatiently waiting for the local waters to cool and the bait fish to arrive followed by the sport fish, I was heartened by the first forays I made to try to cash in on the promised bonanza. (more…)

Coecles harbor, Hurricane Jose, Plum Gut

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