![]() ![]() Once in my 18-foot Tashmoo I ran down the basic information I give everyone who steps into my boat for the first time, irrespective of age or boating experience. I decided that the best strategy would be to trailer my boat up to West Basin, pick up Laurel and her guests, New Yorkers Marc Bryon-Brown and Florie Seery, at the Menemsha dock, and try the flats inside past the channel that leads into Quitsa Pond. If you catch one small bass and the night is a disappointment, take someone fishing who has never stood under a starlit sky on a dark beach waiting for a rod to bend under the weight of a fish, and your perspective will be renewed. ![]() There is no need to set the bar too high. I think most of us who live on the Vineyard enjoy introducing people to the Island’s charms, be it fishing, a drive on the beach, or a walk on a conservation property, in part because it is so easy to have a good time. Might I be willing to take them crabbing or clamming? she asked. Last week, my friends Laurel Durst and Ed Strong, longtime seasonal Chilmark residents, hosted a couple from New York City and wanted to do something with them unique to the Vineyard. I raise the issue in this week’s fishing column because I may hold the key to someone’s marital happiness (and it is not his finger, or a bluefish). Were I to lose my wedding ring, I’d better come home with a Derby-winning bluefish that bit my ring finger off. ![]()
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