~ ，， \": hat is the lure of saltwater fishing? For every
.; ~! angler there may well be a different answer， but
there s never been any question in my mind as m
.，~. - why 1 vastly prefer the call of the sea. Basically， it s
the variety a size of the species plus the uncertainty provided by
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boundless waters.
Any freshwater body of water， no matter how large， is severely s t~g u.，g Reef at M，mt~mk，
New Y.rk - a per[e~ t cimc t~，
restricted. Most have physical boundaries， and even rivers are restricted tr，，Uf，，，I，，eampedb，t~s
by their fresh waters that fl~rm a barrier to most of the world s fish life. u，he. Ihe de i， r，ghl.
AI too often these days there is a senSeworld.OfThereartificialitYseemsabOUtto befreshwatera certain I~ii
fishing; in many cases the freshwater angler seeks hatchery-raised fish
not very wise in the ways of the!
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important element of sport fishing lost when we no longer seek that
which nature alone provides. However， that is not to say that great !
freshwater fishin~ does not exist， i .
My own angnng adventures started as a youngster growing up in I
Merrick， a village on Long Island only about 20 miles from the border I
:， of New York City. Merrick was still quite mini in those days. A 10- [
year-old could be trusted to ride his bike to a pond where the g c r es of
，~ fishing awaited in the form of a stunted population of sunfish that
rarely exceeded four inches. Those sunnies were tempted to worms
-. which we dug ourselves， and the tackle was even more basic - a
bamboo pole with a few feet of string， a float and a tiny hook. The
capture of a \"huge\" 7V2-inch sunfish one day sent my buddy and I
b
scurrymg back to his house in order to throw it on the bathroom scale，
where， alas， mv monster did not register at all!
That was probably one ot the factors which expanded my horizons
to the tidal creek into which Camman s Pond flowed through a pipe.
White perch and alewives were lured to the fresh water for spawning
purposes in the spring， and those fish appeared absolutely gigantic in i
comparison to the sunfish. Then again， there were eels in that tidal [~_ -
creek that could weigh well over a pound! From there we went to local ...ovL The audtor， AI
docks that provided a variety of young-of-the-year species during the Rislori， with a verx la~;qe
\" summer that fascinated us. In addition to the targeted \"snapper\" blues， h.rse-eye jack， a re.~ldent ，，f
there were also baby weakfish and even such tropical species as grunts rhe reefs and i，t~h，rre
channels of blor~/，1， and
- plus the occasional eel or ugly toadfish. . ，*re o，mm，，nly d~c
Eventually we graduated to primitive and very inexpensive rew~lv- f3aM.~as.
. mg spool reels that backlashed on every cast， but Bill and 1 would
~，~.. spend the family days at Jones Beach by wading into the surf as far as
~;\" we could go before attempting to cast over the first breaker vaith a
~，hort boat rod. Then we d have to pick out the backlash be!ore a
~k~wfish would strip our precious bait from the hook.
~.~] ..~It wasn t until I was an eighth-grader that I was presented with a
~.~ollxe-made bamboo surf rod by a kindly neighbor. Another neighbor
q~ ~0uld take me along on Saturday morning surf-fishing trips， but it was
~{~t:ill all small fish until 1 landed a lO-pound skate - a trash fish to
.!~&nyone else， but the greatest treasure of nay life to that point. There
was surely nothing to compare in the freshwaters of Long I.qand[
~\" My boat fishing started before that catch， though it was just a
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