Summer Nights with Stripes

This was the rainiest Spring in many years. NorthEast wind patterns held temperatures down and kept us all wet most days of the week. Truly a flats guide's worst nighmare. Sand Eels responded to the salinity change with each downpour by holding in slightly deeper water or at the salty end of an inlet to open ocean. Bluefish invaded the bays en masse with a brief cameo of large weakfish that dazzled anglers one day and disappeared the next. Lots of big fish have still held close to the Montauk beaches and the Cape Cod anglers are getting shots at more cows than in many recent years. Salty’s invaded the North Fork after a week of steady rain to find fewer, but larger Stripers willing to play and it was the ladies that seemed to have the magic touch this year. Tight lines and good times were the  memories of this annual event. Now we settle into dawn/dusk or late night fishing patterns with dark flies and a low and slow retrieve. Be sure to cover those headlamps with red plastic tape (or turn them off completely). Look for notice of last minute trips in the Forum section of this site (members only). We will have all the latest information about where the fishing is HOT, HOT, HOT!!! Read on for the latest club news……

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The "Salty" Flyrodders of New York, the sole remaining chapter of the original Salty Flyrodders of America, was founded in 1966 by Neil Druger.

He enrolled four pioneer members: Lou Rossi, Dom DeSalvo, Erwin Zobel, and Hammond Fox. From this humble beginning, the club now boasts a membership list in excess of 200.

Monthly meetings are held at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, NY on the first Monday of each month with the exception of January, July, and September, when they take place on the second Wednesday.