They’re hooked
Down on a popular stretch of West Chop Beach, on the final day of the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby last year, four women cast their lures out toward a pair of...
Can you dig it?
One of the best things about living on the Island is you can live just about every which way there is. Want that suburban, nuclear family lifestyle? Done. Work on a humble farm and...
Derby days, and nights
By Lucas Thors
For 75 years, the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby has been a shining example of how special the Island is, and that isn’t going to change.
But there will be some...
A day aboard the Skipper fishing charter
It was 10 am, and the faint rumble from a starting engine hummed as it pulled away from its slip in Oak Bluffs Harbor. Capt. “John-O” Potter stood alert in the wooden wheelhouse aboard...
Aquafarming on the Vineyard: No one said it would be easy
From left, Jeremy Scheffer, Will Bronson, and Noah Mayrand with 10 or 12 102-count bags of Spearpoints ready for market.
As the pressure on natural resources grows worldwide because of population growth, so is there...
Leftover derby fish is donated to Island senior centers
“It’s the time of the fish,” Ann Tyra says, as she and four other volunteers finish up bagging the fish, and wait for the clock to strike 9. That’s when the distribution starts, and...
Perseverance and good karma lead to this year’s Derby wins
Trish Lyman reacts to the winning "click." — Stacey Rupolo
When Trish Lyman of Edgartown bought a guided trip with Danny Gilkes at an auction to support an Edgartown school field trip this spring, the...
Fishermen tell us how (and why) they cook their catch
Stanley Larsen aboard his dragger, Four Kids, in Menemsha Harbor. – Lynn Christoffers
Steve Amaral, Surfcaster; Derby participant for 71 years, Oak Bluffs
What got you started fishing?
We all grew up in my father’s fish market, Amaral’s...
