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For Montauk, It’s Lighthouse vs. Surf’s Up!

2006-11-14T07:24:00.000-08:00

MONTAUK, N.Y., Nov. 10 — The Montauk Point Lighthouse was commissioned by President George Washington and completed in 1796 and may be the most recognized landmark on Long Island. If left unprotected, it could also be a few good storms away from falling down its steadily eroding bluff into the ocean.

So the Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on a $14 million plan to save the lighthouse by building a sea wall of boulders to protect the bluff. But a group of surfers say the boulders that would save the lighthouse would ruin Alamo, the world-renowned surf break just beyond its shadow, and they have a counterproposal.

Dude, just move the lighthouse back.

“I know the lighthouse people feel the current location is hallowed ground, the spot George Washington built the lighthouse on, but we as surfers feel the same way about Alamo,” said Tom Naro, the chairman of the eastern Long Island chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. “All of our research and science has grown out of protecting the wave, and it all indicates that moving the lighthouse is a much better and cheaper option in the long run.”

Yum! I never get tired of watching this!!

2006-11-10T08:44:00.000-08:00

Striped Bass!!!

Montauk 11/4/06

2006-11-07T08:43:00.000-08:00

Got out to Montauk for some surf fishing this past weekend. I must say it made me want a boat! The fish were thick for the boat guys but too far off the beach for the surf guys. A STRONG NE wind would have been nice to push the bait in. I ended up with a few small bass....... It looks like we have some North wind coming later in the week but does not look like it will be strong enough. I'll be out tonight looking for fish at Breezy Point. Will report back....

Goldfish!

2006-10-19T08:27:00.000-07:00

goldfish

Kerry Heffernan's Whole Roasted Striped Bass

2006-10-18T10:44:00.000-07:00

Whole Roasted Stuffed Bass ON EPISODE 3!
Serves 6
From Kerry Heffernan.

1 (15-pound) wild striped bass (scaled and cleaned)
Salt and pepper
Butter
1 medium loaf sliced white bread
2 shallots
3 stalks celery
4 eggs
1 cup half-and-half
1 bunch fresh chopped marjoram
1 bunch fresh chopped tarragon
4 cloves garlic, chopped
3 pounds crabmeat

Season the fish inside and out with salt and pepper. Smear butter on outside. Dice bread and toast in a 350-degree oven until lightly colored. Cook shallots and celery in a little butter until soft. Season well with salt and pepper. Increase oven heat to 450 degrees. Toss bread, shallot-celery mix, eggs, half-and-half, herbs and garlic
until well-combined; fold in crabmeat. Gently stuff bass with the mixture evenly along its length, adding more toward stomach cavity. Tie every 3 inches with twine.

Place in roasting pan. Roast for 15 minutes, reduce temperature to 325 degrees and roast for 30 minutes more. Fish is done when thickest part is firm and opaque. Remove string and slice fish crosswise into
11/2-inch slices; cut each in half to make two portions.

Fall Run In Full Swing----Get out there!

2006-10-05T08:37:00.000-07:00

For all you fans of Guide House. Now is the time to get out to Montauk. Albies, bass, and blues are all over the place. Click on the guides page to book one of the Guide House guides! www.guidehouse.com/guide.html

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2006-10-04T08:44:00.000-07:00

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Back by popular demand GUIDE HOUSE on ESPN

2006-10-04T08:09:00.000-07:00

Starting Saturday October 7 at 9AM on ESPN2!

Guide House: Texoma??

2006-08-08T12:58:00.000-07:00

Just saw this in the Herald Domocrat :

.......In fact, over the next two hours, Steve and I enjoyed the greatest striped bass fly fishing trip of our lives, something straight out of ESPN Outdoor’s hit television show, “Guide House: Montauk,” which chronicles the wild and crazy autumn blitzes of feeding striped bass along the New England coast.

Who needs a Montauk blitz when you’ve got Lake Texoma?

http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2006/07/14/sports/sports03.txt

Guide House guides fish the Redbone!

2006-05-24T08:49:00.000-07:00

THIS SUNDAY ON GUIDE HOUSE: MONTAUK
The Redbone, a two-day tournament that raises money for cystic fibrosis, comes to Montauk. All of the guides areentered, but some are more serious than others. Captain Paul Dixon isfishing with Bob Rich and legendary Florida Keys fly tier and artist Tim Borski. The forecast is for gale force winds and rough seas butPaul and his anglers take a calculated risk to find BIG striped bass.Foe more info check out www.guidehouse.com & www.redbone.org

Behind the wheel for Montauk's fall run

2006-05-20T04:23:00.000-07:00

Guide House Montauk profile, Part 3
Behind the wheel for Montauk's fall run

By Brendan McCarthy

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tv/news/story?page=g_tv_Guide-House-Montauk_McCarthy

Growing up on the ocean at the helm of numerous boats — all the way back to when my father would help me see over the bow — could not have fully prepared me for the task of guiding clients on the waters off Montauk Point during high season.

Guide House Montauk profile, Part 2

2006-05-16T18:25:00.000-07:00

Dredging in Montauk By Matthew MillerSpecial to ESPNOutdoors.com

Dredging is a term that we use in Montauk to describe the way in which we use sinking lines to fish flies deep. This is not sightfishing, although sighting fish and bait can play a part, as we will see.
Normally I use lines in the 350- to 450-grain weight range, as I find that these lines give me adequate depth and will cast well with the 9- to 10-weight rods that we typically fish with during the fall.
Fly choice depends on the bait.
In the spring and fall, when I would most use the dredging method, the bait is usually large herring, shad and bunker, so the fly of choice would be a large deceiver or herring fly. If the bait is smaller, match the hatch accordingly.
Other choices include flies that will have a neutral buoyancy, thus holding their position in the water; heavily palmered flies, like a Seaducer or even a Gartside Gurgler, which most people use as a top-water fly (but with a foam body that makes it a useful choice for deep water, as well). MORE - http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tv/news/story?page=g_tv_Guide-House-Montauk_Miller

ESPN2: Extreme adventure in Montauk's blitz

2006-05-08T13:45:00.000-07:00

Greta Gaines, extreme snowboarding pioneer and musician, visits "Guide House" to chronicle the search for striped bass blitz off Long Island

By Lynn Burkhead ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor — May 5, 2006
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/tv/news/story?page=g_tv_ESPN2_Guide-House-Montauk_060505

At first glance, flyfishing might appear to be the apex where drably dressed anglers, a long graphite wand, a small tuft of feather and fur, tumbling cold water and a hungry trout all intersect at a point in time. Call it genteel sport with the symphony warming up in the background.For extreme sports pioneer Greta Gaines, however, flyfishing is a sport that is … well, it's extreme.

Forget the walk in the park stuff with soft music in the background.
We're talking adrenaline rush, crashing waves, smashing strikes, hard pulls and gnarly music straight from the ESPN X Games.

Gaines, a woman whose resume includes extreme snowboarding, making music, and motherhood among other pursuits, will stop by for a visit on this week's "Guide House: Montauk" episode on ESPN2.

Guide House/Newsday

2006-05-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

On the tube.......If you can't wait for the fall run of stripers in Montauk, check out the new reality show "Guide House: Montauk" which premiers on ESPN2 April 30 at 10:30 a.m. The program looks at five fly-fishing guides as they "do battle on the water and in attracting clients" during October, all while living in the same abode. The guides - Paul Dixon, Amanda Switzer, Brendan McCarthy, Matthew Miller, and Bryan Goulart - are introduced in this first of nine half-hour episodes and hit the water with some frustrated (and frustrating?) anglers who have trouble hooking into keeper bass despite the bubbling blitzes. "This show is about hardcore fishing and the people obsessed with it," executive producer Jason Puris said. "The pressure on these fishing guides to perform is intense and, oftentimes, their egos get in the way. We let that drama play out on the screen."

Real World: Montauk

2006-05-08T13:36:00.000-07:00

American Angler: April 2006By Zach Matthews
www.americanangler.com

It was bound to happen eventually, so it should come as no surprise that the reaity-TV craze has hit fly fishing. But wait, you say, how can you make a reality-TV show about fly fishing? Aren't all the fly fishing shows on TV already about reality? Easy-you add a fake environment. The folks at ESPN, the masters of adding competition where none existed before, have come up with Guide House: Montauk, a fictionalized "real house" where top guides live in close quarters during the famous East Coast striper run.....What better place to feature good-looking anglers guiding hot-ticket clients in a charity fishing tournament or two? Who knows, they might even find a way to keep score. No word yet on whether any of the guides will be handing out roses or be voted off the Point.

The Fly Life With Howell

2006-05-08T13:33:00.000-07:00

New York Magazine April 5, 2006 In Montauk! On ESPN2! - http://www.metronewyork.com/news/intelligencer/16590/
By Shana Liebman

Thanks to high-flying fly-fishing memoirists like former Times executive editor Howell Raines and writer Peter Kaminsky, the sport has become glamorous enough for its own reality-TV show. Jason Puris, 35, son of advertising guru Martin Puris, “pitched the idea to someone at a birthday party who immediately made a call.” He says Guide House, which will air on ESPN2, is “like The Real World for fishing.” It follows five Montauk fishing guides who all share a house. “As opposed to most fishing shows, which is two rednecks in a boat, this show really gets in the minds of these people,” says Puris, revealing the guides’ thoughts on clients like Raines and actor Ed Burns. Of Kaminsky, Captain Brendan McCarthy said, “I’ll take his roast-leek-and-potato salad before counting on him to bring home fish for dinner!” Kaminsky says McCarthy “may have been being ironic.”

ESPN2: Delivering briny, high-octane angling

2006-05-08T13:29:00.000-07:00

Hard-core angling enthusiasts and new viewers alikewill be drawn to Saltwater Sunday's programmingBy Lynn Burkhead: ESPNOutdoors.com associate editor
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/tv/s/g_fea_ESPN2_Saltwater-Sunday_lineup06.html

...."Guidehouse Montauk," where the stressed lives of fishing guides putting clients on Long Island's famed autumn striper blitz are chronicled; and "Mad Fin," a fishing tournament with a different — and serious — bite........"I do think that the category is growing because you can not have success and yet still have had a good day," Bowen said. "You can have had a really bad day on the water in saltwater fishing, and yet you can still have had an explosively charged, highly entertaining experience."Bowen knows firsthand of what he speaks. "I recently went out and fished for nine hours during the fall blitz at Montauk," Bowen said. "I didn't catch anything, but it was still a thrilling experience." A thrilling experience that many anglers can identify with thanks to a steady breeze, the roar of pounding ocean waves, the aroma of salt in the air, and the electricity of striped bass and bluefish on the move as they chase vast schools of baitfish off the east end of Long Island in the annual autumn feeding frenzy. "I got skunked. But, nonetheless, it was one of the most exciting days of my life in the outdoors," Bowen said.Legions of saltwater-angling enthusiasts know exactly what he means.

Guide House at Miami Boat Show

2006-05-08T13:24:00.000-07:00

ESPN Outdoors presents Celebrity Night in the Big Game Room on Friday, February 17th from 5 – 7:30 p.m.

You’ll meet celebrities from Guide House: Montauk - Paul Dixon and Amanda Switzer,

Also on hand will be Jason Puris, Bob Rich, Tim Borski, Jeremiah Natchigal, Chirs and Melissa fischer, Matt Eastman, Brett McBride, Tred Bara, Manny Puig and Norm Isaacs. Plus our own Carey Chen and Guy Harvey. Keep your eyes open – you never know who will show up!

Guide House: Montauk Starts Sunday on ESPN

2006-05-08T13:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.midcurrent.com/news/archives/002651.html

If the show is anywhere near as good as the advanced billing, it will keep a lot of anglers home on Sundays this spring. Here's what Brendan McCarthy, one of the featured guides sent us: "Created by Capt. Brendan McCarthy and Jason Puris, the series chronicles the day to day life of 5 fly-fishing guides, living under the same roof, during the 'Fall Run' off Montauk Point. Besides great fishing for Striped Bass, Bluefish and False Albacore with their clients, the guides also sit down with some well-known fly tyers, cook with some famous chefs, chat and fish with people like Ted Jurasik of Tibor reels and even participate in a RedBone Tournament. The Chefs include the likes of Tom Collicio of Bravo's Top Chef, Kerry Heffernan of 11 Madison Park-NYC and Colin Ambrose of Estia's Little Kitchen-Sag Harbor NY. Fly Tyers like Tim Borski and Dave Skok participate and Howell Raines and Peter Kaminsky, writer of The Moon Pulled up an Acre of Bass, come and fish as well. Gretta Gaines, Snowboarder, Singer/Songwriter and ESPN personality even sings a few songs for the cast back at the 'Guide House.'"

Guide House: Montauk

2006-05-08T13:12:00.000-07:00

http://flyfisherman.com/northeast/GuideHouse/

ESPN Outdoors has announced the start of a new Outdoor series named Guide House: Montauk beginning in 2006. Created by Capt. Brendan McCarthy and Jason Puris, the series chronicles the day to day life of five fly-fishing guides, living under the same roof, during the fall run of stripers and bluefish off Montauk Point, New York. [For more information on Montauk fall fishing, see "Montauk Bass Blitz." The Editor.]

Besides great fishing for striped bass, bluefish, and false albacore with their clients, the guides also sit down with some well-known fly tiers, cook with some famous chefs, chat and fish with people like Ted Jurasik of Tibor reels, and even participate in a RedBone Tournament. A new approach to outdoor programming, ESPN’s Guide House:Montauk reveals a behind-the-scenes look at a diverse and energetic cast of characters with the backdrop of an incredible fishery during its peak of the year. Look for it on Saltwater Sundays on ESPN Outdoors this coming season.

2006-05-08T13:07:00.000-07:00

Guide House: Montauk premiers on April 30, 2006 on ESPN2 @ 10:30 a.m.