The Weekly Salvage
The Weekly Salvage
(10.2.24) Fishy News from Around the Northeast and Beyond
The maritime rule of salvage has its origin in Roman law, which dictates that one who preserves or improves upon the misplaced property of another is owed compensation, even if the service was not requested. Let’s get out the internet trawler and get to work…
🎙️| Saltwater Euphoria Podcast - Commercial Fishing, Bigeyes & Swords with Mark DeCabia —> Some very interesting threads being pulled in this pod relating to: 1) technological impacts on the tuna fishery 2) the economics of commercial fishing 3) tuna, swordfish and squid/sandeel migrations. DeCabia definitely gets the offshore juices flowing after some lost time on land this September…say some hail-marys for calm October seas.
🎥 | Bull Reds, Cobia and Tasty Waves in OBX - Salty Crew —> Some of the wildest drone footage of Redfish you’ll ever see. Just Wow.
🎥 | Big Bass Lures of the Fall with Frank Goncalves & SaltwaterEdge
Fishing Reports | OnTheWater - FishermanMag - HullTruth - MAFishReport
Tackle Reviews | GearSay - Saltwater Edge - TackleTour - StripersOnline
False Albie Addicts (SportFishMag) - “The wind honked out of the north on the first chilly day in September. It just felt fishy. Running toward the birds, I thought at first the boils were stripers. But when the fish came up, I knew this was something different: Streamlined muscular fish with green backs slashed through baitballs at an ungodly speed. Composure lost, heart pounding, adrenaline level through the roof, I made several casts, which went unnoticed. About an hour and 30 casts later, I finally came tight, and it felt unreal. Line peeled off the reel so fast I didn’t know what to do. I cranked down the drag a quarter turn and the reel literally blew up, falling to pieces on the ground. Didn’t matter. I was hooked. This was well beyond anything I had experienced before. Straight-up tuna inshore. Mind blown.”
10 Lures for the Cape Cod Canal (OnTheWater) - “There's no place like the Cape Cod Canal where extreme tides and current call for specific lures. On any given trip, 30-plus-pound stripers could be smashing mackerel around your ankles or slurping squid at the very end of your longest cast.” —> Top offerings include : 1) Outcast Lures Long-cast Pencil Popper 2) Super Strike Little Neck Popper 3) Fish Lab mad Eel 4) AG Whip-It Fish 5) OG Hogy Eel on Jighead 6) Hopkins Spoon 7) SP or Hydro Minnow 8) Savage Gear Mack Stick 9) Rapala X-rap Long Cast —> With breaking tides in the near-term forecast and today being the new moon, its never been a better time to test your bilingual curse-words mettle in the Big Ditch. According to my staff astrologist, this new moon falls in the zodiac sign of Libra, which shall bring us anglers (and all you cat ladies) a new sense of balance and equilibrium. Plus, to make matters even more spicy, it also coincides with a partial solar eclipse, marking new beginnings and change. So, balance and change, yin and yang, Pabst & Blue Ribbon, you get the picture. Good luck chuckin’ and windin’ this week.
Fall Run Madness (AnglersJournal) - “I like the people I meet late in the season, on the rock piles and beaches, at launch ramps and in parking lots, the ones who keep fishing even as the pulse of fall weakens. We’re part of a small group who keep at it due to temperament or for reasons we may have trouble articulating even to ourselves. After enough seasons, you stop asking why you are fishing after Thanksgiving and just continue to do it. One more tide, one more week, one more fish, you promise yourself. The number of anglers shrinks by the week, eventually with each tide. It’s smart to pace yourself, especially if you fish late into the year.” —> Spell-binding writing to inspire the push into the Striper silly season, the window when the wheat separates from chaff, and grown men become young boys chasing the last whisper of the migration. A must read.
Two Kodiak trawlers caught 2,000 king salmon. Now, a whole fishery is closed. (AlaskaBeacon) - “Federal managers shut down a major Alaska fishery Wednesday after two Kodiak-based boats targeting whitefish caught some 2,000 king salmon — an unintentional harvest that drew near-instant condemnation from advocates who want better protections for the struggling species. The Kodiak-based trawl fleet has caught just over one-fourth of its seasonal quota of pollock — a whitefish that’s typically processed into items like fish sticks, fish pies and surimi, the paste used to make fake crab. Bonney and federal managers declined to identify the two vessels, but a co-owner of one of them, the Evie Grace, confirmed that it had harvested more than 1,200 kings in an event he called a “lightning strike.” Up to that point in the season, the most king salmon that the Evie Grace had caught in a single trip was 53, and its total harvested over 11 trips was 270, said Kent Helligso.” —> And I thought my Monday in the excel mines was shitty. “Hey honey, how was work?…Oh you know, just shut-down the entire coastal Salmon fishery. Looks like I’m off tomorrow.”
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