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  • Surfcasting with Lures How-to GF TV Video

    Surfcasting with Lures How-to GF TV Video

    Surfcasting, saltwater fishing from shore, is easy to do, and a great way to learn how to catch fish. In this how-to video we use lures at the beach to fish for striped bass and bluefish. Ocean fishing like this is not complicated, and i’m all about simple is good.

    We went surfcasting at Fort Tilden Park, on the border of Queens & Brooklyn in New York City; its pretty wild to be in the city, yet on the ocean, weird dichotomy there between the urban business and the calm of the ocean surf.


    A couple of things I learned about ocean fishing on this trip:

    • Bring along water friendly shoes like those sandles with big holes in them, or don’t wear shoes at all if its warm enough
    • Apply sunblock, the bigger the SPF number the better. Even if its cloudy, you should protect your skin.
    • Make sure you have the proper permits and are allowed to be fishing where you are fishing. I’m big on following the rules, that’s why they are there.
    • Pay attention to bag limits and eating limits. Around NYC, the fish have accumulated some chemicals in their flesh that you don’t want to eat large amounts of.
    • Buy used surfcasting gear on craigslist, our suggestion is 10- 12′ lightweight rod and spinning reel. I used braided line for the first time in this video and it worked well.

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    A big thank you to my friend Brian and his dad Jack.

    We’ll do more fishing videos in the near future, i’m all about eating food that is locally harvested. What are your surfcasting tips? Let us know below:

     

  • More on Fishing and the Great Outdoors GF Radio

    More on Fishing and the Great Outdoors GF Radio

    Mike finishes up his how to fish for largemouth bass talk, ice fishing is just getting started, and there is still time to go out on a river and go fishing. Mike talks more about what kind of fishing lures for when, and why you shouldn’t put your tackle box in the back of your truck.

    We tell you why you should wear blaze orange clothing when hiking in the woods in the fall. We then move on to viewer voicemail, and answer a question about why are there cracks in a listener’s new drywall taped corners.

     

    photo by jeltovski

  • Beaver Lodge Canoe Trip

    Beaver Lodge Canoe Trip

    Yesterday after the giant storm of 20 inches at the end of October was really a great day it was super puffy clouds out there blue sky about 50° and I said hey let’s take out the canoe. So we put the canoe in the Ford F150 and drove down to one of our local ponds.

    Were we went canoeing isn’t really a pond, though it’s called a pond, not sure why, it’s 145 acres. This area was originally a little beaver pond, the beavers had dammed up a small creek, and it became a very large marshy area. The state came in and made the dam into a spilway and created this really great lake perfect for canoeing. There are a lot of tree stumps and dead trees in the lake and this keeps powerboats out.

    This lake is our favorite lake to go canoeing and the water shallow, is really clear, it’s really quiet and there’s almost never anyone else out on this lake where there.

    parking the canoe to investigate the brook

     

    We were on the far end of the lake and we heard this babbling stream that I had not heard before so we canoed over to the shore, which is full of brambles and Mountain Laurel and wild blueberries, and we hiked through the brush and found this really cool little brook. I think is called a vernal stream, it was really quite active because was all the snow melt from the 20 inches of snow we had in October. While checking out the broad we run across fresh signs of beavers harvesting trees and took some pictures. Beavers have front incisors that are constantly growing so they need to constantly eat wood.

    There are a few beaver lodges in the lake and we always the check them out, and you never see the beavers, they  can hear us coming, we’re pretty clunky with the canoe, banging the paddles against the side of the canoe. We came across one of the beaver lodges right in the middle of the lake and another that is against the shore of the lake.

    I thought it interesting that beavers will actually build a beaver lodge on the side of the lake rather than the middle of it.

    We learned a bunch about beavers on Wikipedia. What I thought was the really cool is that the preferred food for beavers in the summer are water lilies, and this lakeis full of water lilies, so there you go, the perfect place for beavers.

    Canoeing is a great outdoor activity that doesn’t really cost that much money you can get a inexpensive used canoe, a few life preservers and you’re set to go.

    Where do you guys like to go canoeing your area?

  • The visual of Mike dancing : GardenFork Radio

    The visual of Mike dancing : GardenFork Radio

    Call our listener line: 860-740-6938 This time the Mike & Eric fishing show, Preparing for thanksgiving, Mike’s domestic car problem, using Guidestar.org to find out about nonprofits, James Lipton, and Roxbury Russet apples