The Bergall and the Baseline

<p>When the fishing stops the internet takes over. In the Northeast, winter drives us anglers indoors and with computer instead of rod-and-reel we bounce the sinkers of our minds over the depths of our pastime. Tackle is browsed, trips are planned, and the sites of the few &ldquo;open&rdquo; boats still fishing are perused to see what&rsquo;s coming over the iced-over rails.</p> <p>In years past the &ldquo;whose-fishing-and-what-are-they-catching?&rdquo; peruse would often be a &ldquo;gosh-I-wish-I-had-been-there&rdquo; experience. A brace of nice green codfish held up by a beefy dude in&nbsp;<a href="https://fishingreports.vikingfleet.com/2024/01/24/wed-jan-24-winter-cod/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Montauk</a>&nbsp;or maybe a shot of a &ldquo;<a href="https://www.noreast.com/threads/snowshoe-flounder.60790/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">snow shoe</a>&rdquo; flounder &mdash; the big spawner sized editions of&nbsp;<em>Pseudopleuronectes americanus &mdash;&nbsp;</em>gripped around the middle and shoved toward the camera might have made our fingers twitch with line-less envy. In much earlier times I might have done my perusing offline, making my fingers inky by looking through the flimsy winter editions of &ldquo;<a href="https://www.thefisherman.com/magazine-long-island/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The Long Island Fisherman</a>&rdquo; to see who was catching whiting (a.k.a. &ldquo;frost fish&rdquo; a.k.a. silver hake).</p> <p><a href="https://4fishgreenberg.medium.com/the-bergall-and-the-baseline-f7c138a18ccf"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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