White Water Blog

The 12 Days of Fishmas: Holiday Gift Buying Guide

The 12 days of FISHmas. Check out this gift guide if you're having trouble finding presents for the fisherman in your life. Inshore, Offshore, Surf, and Fly - this gift guide should make your holiday shopping a little easier for you!

Dec 13, 2020
Bryce Poyer

2020 Season Wrap-Up: Looking back, and looking ahead.

Looking back, I think it’s safe to say that 2020 certainly won’t go down as one of the best years in the history of the world. What started off as a refreshing start to a new year quickly changed as COVID reared it’s ugly head in late winter.

Dec 11, 2020
Bryce Poyer

For Late Fall Action: Diamonds Can't Be Beat

With the fall blitz in full swing as we enter November, anglers are heading to the surf both day and night to battle migrating stripers that, we hope, won’t let up until sometime after Thanksgiving. While many think of late bass explosions as concentrated in the suds, there’s another run of bass a bit further off the beach that sees the linesiders carving through vast schools of sand eels that stay outside the wash

Nov 19, 2020
Bryce Poyer

Late Fall Blackfishing

Blackfishing is one of those intangible lines that separate the wanna-bes from the real fishing experts. Learn to catch blackfish consistently and you can learn to catch any other fish in the sea. Show off a couple of bulldogs, as the biggest blackfish are known, and nobody will question your angling ability. The words “luck” and “blackfishing” are rarely used together while “skill” and “blackfishing” are frequently linked.

Nov 04, 2020
Bryce Poyer

2020 Fall Inshore Preview

It may have taken an extra week or two to get started, but there’s no doubt the fall blitz is beginning to kick in on Long Island’s East End. Heading toward mid-October, action is rounding into prime from with stripers, bluefish and false albacore chasing lures for anglers fishing from boats or the shore. The bottom game, too, seems ready to explode with plenty of porgies already on tap, sea bass still in play, blackfish moving inshore, plus ling, hake and a few codfish on
the offshore grounds.

Oct 14, 2020
Bryce Poyer

"Social Distancing" While Fishing

There’s been a lot of internet chat of late about social distancing through fishing. Some of it is, of course, tongue in cheek, but some of it is serious, too. So, that begs the question: Is it safe to go fishing under the threat of the coronavirus? The simple answer is, “That depends.”