White Water Blog
Last-Minute Additions for Your Spring Arsenal
After what seemed felt like a longer winter than usual this year, spring is finally banging at the door for real. No doubt the next few weeks will see thousands of Long Island anglers kick-off their saltwater season with the arrival of striped bass along our shores, porgies paving the bay bottoms, weakfish stalking the channel edges and big-headed “racer” blues wreaking havoc from the inlet to the back bays.
- Bryce Poyer
Hook Sizing: The Great Mystery
4/0, 6/0, #4, #6, 4x, 2x, what do all these hook labels actually mean? Well unfortunately it’s not as simple or universal as we would like it to be. When it comes to hook sizing (nothing to do with strength) there is a scale. The bigger the number....................
- Bryce Poyer
Spring Preview, 2025: Shinnecock & Peconic Bays
It seems like it’s been a long time coming but the 2025 inshore fishing season should be kicking into high gear soon. We’re lucky here at White Water Outfitters to be right in the center of the East End’s early spring bite.
- Bryce Poyer
Spring Family Fishing Festival at Belmont Lake State Park Scheduled for April 5
Long Island’s biggest freshwater fishing event each year is the Annual Spring Family Fishing Festival at Belmont Lake State Park, scheduled for April 5 this spring. With a festive atmosphere, parkland surroundings, and the lake loaded with freshly stocked trout, it’s fun for the whole family.Â
- Bryce Poyer
It's Time for Stockies
Even though trout fishing is allowed on a year-round basis in some Long Island waters, late March and early April are considered by many sweetwater fans to be the true start of trout fishing season.
- Bryce Poyer
DIY Florida Tarpon, Part II
Picking up where we left off in Part I, when it comes to structure fishing, big tarpon love bridges and docks both big and small, so those should be obvious points of attack. Of course, here you’ll have to figure out if the fish are holding high in the water column (near the surface along nighttime shadow lines or parallel to abutments and just off the bottom, for example)
- Bryce Poyer
