On Saturday, May 21, I will help host the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club Striped Bass Catch and Release Tournament. It began 30 years...

John Charles Phillips II died on Thursday, March 10. But for the mysteries of Google algorithms, which picked up on a reference to East...

I like shrimp. I am not alone. Oceana, a nonprofit that promotes responsible fishing, reports that shrimp is the most popular seafood in...

There is a lot to learn outside the Vineyard summer cocktail circuit. (August 2010) The political pundits will be lathered up this week....

My first reaction was, Huh? I wasn’t sure what to make of what I saw on Tashmoo Pond. A diminutive figure of a man in a black wetsuit and...

The sound was deafening. Caw. Caw. Caw. Hundreds of crows, swirling black shadows in the darkening sky, called to each other overhead as...

Amid life’s uncertainties, it may be reassuring to think that we will leave some good memories behind once we depart this earth. I...

The return of river herring to Martha’s Vineyard this spring is one of the rhythms of a natural world unaffected by a pandemic that has...

Some of the best Martha’s Vineyard striped bass fishermen are solitary individuals who steer clear of any stretch of beach where they...

I started to think of black mamba snakes. The mind tends to wander after a couple of hours of tedium while sitting in a tree stand during...

I did what any man would do. I yelled for my wife. “Norma, look at this,” I said, “It’s a tick.” Norma agreed. It was a tick.

With so many strawberries to eat it was only natural that I would think about making strawberry ice cream. So I turned to my cooking bible.

Striped bass eat squid. Bluefish eat squid. Italians eat squid. What's not to like about squid?

Social media is a welcome alternative to Netflix binging, and baking bread, if you can find flour or yeast.

'At one point, I thought, this is it. Mentally, I said goodbye to my wife, goodbye to my kids, and started down the mountain.'

But make no mistake about it. A Tom with love on his mind is no chicken.

“I’ll tell you, those were some of the best men that the United States Army ever had in one spot, in one fight."

Jack was not afraid to go toe-to-toe with indignant property owners who stood in the way of public fishing and boating access.

It is a long cast to the Republic of Kiribati. But long casts are one of the qualities of the venerable Roberts Ranger.

‘No! No! No! Get the big gaff. Get the big gaff. I don’t wanna lose him!’”