More striper! This time, Kevin’s.

Another day, another striper!  Kevin caught one just a hair bigger than mine, and he grilled it for dinner.  Our friend Amanda joined us, and we had it with roasted potatoes and asparagus.  To go with it all, I made a sorrel cream sauce out of wild sorrel I purloined from our friend Rick’s yard.  [...]

The keepah

As good as it gets

Last night I caught my first striped bass. We went out with our friends Bob and Mad Dog at about 5:00 yesterday afternoon, just as the tide was coming back into the bays on the south side. Mad Dog, whose real name is Suzie and who earned her nickname by being a mad-dog fisherman, had [...]

All in the same boat

Kevin at the Cotuit cut

The stripers are here.
Every year, at about this time, the waters around Cape Cod fill with striped bass just arrived from down south, where they had the good sense to spend the winter. The striper’s combination of being tricky to catch and excellent to eat make it a favorite of local anglers, and every Tom, [...]

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