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MARCH 2009 2 NoreastSaltwaterMagazine COVERING NY, NJ, CT and RI THE JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST SPORTFISHING Departments Features 4. Editor’s Waypoint By Sal Amendolia Whining & Dining During Hamptons Restaurant Week - Part I 16. 6. Dusty’s Angle Here are some reviews of popular eastern Long Island restaurants By Dusty Rhodes visited by an author and feature writer who enjoys eating as much as writing. By Robert Banfelder 8. For Your Information By Steve Byrne Anglers Away: Pez Vela - A Hidden Fly Fishing Treasure 24. 10. Salt On The Fly If you want sailfish, but are game for any challenge, Pez Vela is a fly By Anthony Alessi fishing paradise and one of the best kept secrets around. By Guy Nelson 12. Salt Lines By Steve Byrne 30. Anglers Away: Tropic Star Fishing Lodge Tropic Star might very well be the number one fishing lodge in the 13. Quick Fixes world. It is best known for its black marlin but you never know what will hit your offering next. By Richard DeMarte By Captain Zac Grossman 14. Surf Side By John Skinner 34. Kick-Off 2009 With Barnegat Bay's Winter Flounder Winter flounder season is right around the corner. Captain Kent tells you how and where to catch these tasty blackbacks in Barnegat Bay. 28-29. Trophy Pages By Capt. Kent Madsen By Steve Byrne 51. Nor’east Galley Tackle Buyer's Guide By Eileen Plaia 40. Why Not Buy Yourself a Present this Season? Here is the lowdown on some new and innovative fishing gear. Go 52. Treasure Trove ahead and treat yourself this season, you deserve it! By Chris Grech By Chris Grech 53. Parting Shots Materials for Getting Started in Fly Tying - Part II 46. Read this very informative piece detailing everything necessary to help you obtain the fly materials you really need to get you going on this great hobby. 54. Publisher’s Page By Robert Banfelder By George Scocca Cover Story With all of the excitement over the amazing codfish bite continuing at Montauk Point, it would be easy to forget that we have the winter flounder and striped bass openers right around the corner. Although blackbacks have become more difficult to find and catch each year, there's something to say about being on your first fishing trip of the season, having fun with your buddies and the mates on your favorite party boat. No matter what the expected result may be, come the flounder season, many of us need to be at the rail, waiting for that first horn to toot. We are eternally optimistic and quickly drop our lines over proven flounder grounds, putting our faith in the experience of the captain at the helm to find us some fish. Some of us, independent diehards that we are, like to do the searching ourselves and use the spring floun- der season to get our own boats and miscellaneous marine gear prepped and on the water as early as pos- sible. Whichever is the case for you, in this "new" Nor'east Saltwater March issue, you will especially enjoy the feature article on page 34. Captain Kent Madsen takes you to Barnegat Bay in search of those tasty flatfish and shares tips, locations and techniques that will greatly improve your odds at catching those elusive floun- der, no matter where you decide to drop your bait. Good luck and good fishing. MARCH 2009 NoreastSaltwaterMagazine 3 EDITOR’S WAYPOINT Editor’s Waypoint STORIES AND INSIGHT FROM OUR EDITOR IN CHIEF THE JOURNAL OF NORTHEAST SPORTFISHING Time for Some Changes PUBLISHER & PRESIDENT George R. Scocca 2009 is going to be a special year for Nor'east Saltwater magazine and all of its Editor in Chief readers. This year we will celebrate our 20th year in publication and starting with this Sal Amendolia March issue, we have introduced a new and redesigned monthly magazine. In this Fishery Management issue and every subsequent one, we have a greater number of exciting and informa- Dusty Rhodes tive fishing features than we have ever published before. During the off-season, our Creative Director Angler's Away section will be certain to bring you to parts of the world that you have Ronnie S. Smith always wanted to travel to and fish. We will bring you back to home sweet home via V.P. of Marketing our normal entertaining fishing features, when that long awaited fishing season Rob Pavlick begins. They will all provide great reading as well as lots of fishing know-how from Advertising Sales some of the most informative and interesting feature writers and field editors out John Baier there today. Proofreader Linda A. Avignone This new magazine contains both old and new departments that we know many of you have enjoyed in the past and will enjoy in the future. Old stand-bys, like our Webmaster James Sullivan famous surf fisherman, field editor, feature writer and author, John Skinner, will pro- vide us with his Surf Side column that you look forward to, each and every month. Contributing Editors: In addition, John's weekly online Surf Fishing reports will appear on the Chuck Barbato Noreast.com web site when the fishing season kicks off. The infamous Dusty Chris Grech Mike Wright Rhodes continues to provide us with the latest news in Fisheries Management via his Glenn Kleinhans good news/bad news Dusty's Angle. Steve Byrne, field editor, feature writer and John Skinner Sean MacNeal guide extraordinaire, continues to keep us informed on important events happening Karim Farid out there in the fishing world via his For Your Information department. Steve will Steve Byrne also continue to keep all you anglers out there happy by putting together the wildly Rob Caluori Anthony Alessi popular Trophy Pages, featuring photos submitted by you, friends, family, bait shops Richard Pannone and captains each and every month. We have brought back the sorely missed Salt Robert Lee Frank Ruczynski Lines, which will provide you with selected "how to" types of fishing questions and Mike Plaia answers from our Nor'east members. As in the past, timely discussions will be Ben Treadwell Greg Hazley selected and copied for you from our Noreast.com web site's Discussion Boards, Eileen Plaia and published by Steve for your reading pleasure. Salt on the Fly is back as a col- Richard DeMarte umn with our veteran Fly Fishing field editor Anthony Alessi keeping us informed on what's what in the world of Saltwater fly fishing. When the season kicks off, Nor’east Media, LLC 525 West Jericho Tpke. Anthony will no doubt provide some informative reports in this column as well. Smithtown, NY 11787-5020 Phone: 631.863.0170 Fax: 631.361.9737 Some new additions to the magazine are The Nor'east Galley, where feature Nor’east Saltwater is published writer and gourmet chef, Eileen Plaia, talks about some of her favorite fish recipes monthly January to December by Nor’east Media, LLC, 525 W. Jericho and shares them with us all to enjoy. Every once in a while, other Nor'east members Tpke., Smithtown, NY 11787. Nor’east will share their favorite recipes with you too. In this month's magazine, you will find Saltwater, Volume 20, Number 03 ©2009 Nor’east Media, LLC. The another new addition entitled Quick Fixes. These informative tips have been provid- design and contents of this publica- tion may not be reproduced in any ed by Richard DeMarte, captain, junior pro angler and regular feature contributor to manner without the written consent of our Nor'east Saltwater magazine. This column will offer you simple solutions to the publisher. We will consider for MARCH 2009 publication all submitted photographs. some seemingly complex, fishing related problems. (leave it up to the new genera- All material will be handled with care, although we are not responsible for tion of anglers to think of these things) For those of you who enjoy a review of new loss or damage. Photographs will be fishing tackle, rods and reels, boats, motors, etc., our informative Product Features returned only when received with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. and new Treasure Trove series will be worth your attention. These product features 4 NoreastSaltwaterMagazine EDITOR’S WAYPOINT By Sal Amendolia [email protected] as well as the monthly Treasure Trove column will be done by none other than our "straight shooting" product editor, angler and feature writer, Chris Grech. Manufacturers of Wet or Dry Exhaust System for Over 36 Years In this monthly, you are also reading another brand new column entitled "Editor's Waypoint" where I finally (after 4 seasons!) get an opportunity to pro- REPLACEMENT vide you with my own two cents on what is going on out there in the life of the MANIFOLDS & average saltwater angler. In future issues, I'll talk about lots of things, and, when- RISERS ever I can, share some neat fishing tricks that have been tucked away in my log books and files since I started fishing over 60 years ago. In season, I'll also do my best to point you to some good fishing areas via "What's Biting, another new column which will be a summary of fishing report highlights for all the regions covered by our "best in the business" field editors. Their weekly on-line fishing reports will continue to be available every day at our Noreast.com web site once the new season begins. And oh yes, heaven forbid I forget, you will continue to hear from our great publisher, George Scocca, via his Publisher's Page, whenev- Manifold & Exhaust er he has something on his mind that he would like to share with you.