Tag: Caroline Collatos

Two young anglers proudly hold up a bluefish caught during the August Blues Nantucket Fishing Tournament.
Nantucket Voices

Dog Days of Summer

Ah yes, the dog days of summer. The fishing has been, well, tough. My friend and boat charter captain Corey Gammon says that the fishing has been “opportunistic.” We spoke recently, and Corey told me, “Yesterday we did nothing at Great Point, and today it just went off. Fish everywhere!” Yes, Corey is right. I’ve had good days and bad days and going half-mad days, to borrow a lyric from the late, great Jimmy Buffett. My best day of the past week was when I had to cancel my charter clients due to extreme wind and rain. I went out and fished into that wind on an empty beach and caught some big, fat bluefish. You can’t catch ‘em from the couch, right?

Island Science

Summer Visitors in Nantucket Waters

They don’t sip CRUcumbers at CRU or wait in line at Juice Bar, but they’re back every summer. A month ago, on Friday July 18, just in time to kick off Shark Week, a 1,653 pound great white shark pinged 50 miles east of Nantucket. Named “Contender,” he is the largest male white shark ever tagged by research group OCEARCH in the Western North Atlantic. While well offshore, his appearance is a timely reminder that sharks, too, summer on Nantucket.