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8/27/2024 I was running late and texted Pete that I wouldn’t arrive to the Marine Basin till 3:20am which gave me 10 minutes before I was officially late! Grabbed my gear out of my truck and noticed that Pernickety Pete was approaching the fuel dock for my curbside pickup. Before stepping aboard I checked the time, 3 minutes to spare, 3:27am. If you’re on time, you’re late! We had seven lines set before sunrise/graylight. We trolled till 7:30am and switched over to jigging, no luck. Captain Pete set a course for the Ranger Wreck and once again set up to troll. Everything was in our favor, pristine water, whales, dolphins, tuna grass and tuna chicks, but nothing was taking the lures we had set up behind the Mary Alice. Then around 10am one of the big international reels started to scream! Fish on!!! To our surprise the Mary Alice would land her first white marlin. It was the first marlin I’ve ever seen close-up, I was psyched. We snapped a few pictures, and the beautiful Marlin was on her way. Then about an hour and a half later, the second big penn international reel started to sing and Mike strapped on a belt, and reeled in a nice yellowfin tuna. At that point, I’m sure all of us thought that we could put a couple more tuna fish in the boat, but that was not to be. With the crew in agreement, we ended looking for tunafish and decided to head Inshore with the hopes of catching some fluke and seabass off Cartwright. We landed a couple short fluke, which were released and a handful of porgies and seabass. FDNY lineup: Captain Pete Carey L42/M1, Kevin Profitlich R2, Mike Healy L42/E45 and Tommy May E89/E326/M9. Hope you enjoyed the video

8/24/2024 Captain Jon DiVello of the Greenport 33’ L&H Walkaround fishing boat “Hard to Get” departed at 4:30am enroute “The Dip” 80 miles out with his brother, Spearfisherman Joe DiVello and Spearfisherwoman Angela. Both Joe and Angela are free divers, no tanks.! Also in attendance, fishing rod and reel were weathered angler Greg Petree and cousin Edward. After the 3 1/2 hour journey, they fished through the night and into the following day, before heading home Sunday evening. They were back at the dock around 9:30 pm Sunday. Hope you enjoy the video, Tom.

8/26/2024 “Double G” Gunner & Grady take the Southold Dog Park By Storm

08/23/2024 Captain Scott Novick & Crew of the East Marion Fishing Boat “Naida” returning from their early morning Montauk Trip

8/14/2024 Dolphins lead the Mary Alice to the tuna fishing grounds. Pushed off the dock and were underway at 3:30am. Great day fishing 25 miles south of Montauk, NY. We trolled and jigged, but trolling worked out best for us. Caught two smaller bluefin, but failed to find a larger bluefin. Everybody went home with fish. Arrived back home to Montauk around 4:30pm, fueled up, cleaned the boat and fish. Long day, arrived home around 9pm and hit the crib, where I slept like a baby! Hope you enjoyed the video

Playing around with the iMovie on my phone, so what better subjects than the coolest dogs in town, Gunner & Grady!!

🇺🇸 8/11/2024 Retired FDNY brothers team up to support President Donald J Trump at the Greenport NY to Montauk NY Flotilla. Couldn’t ask for a better day to spend with family and friends at the flotilla, the weather was absolutely perfect. Hope you enjoyed the video. 🇺🇸

7/23/2024 Retired FDNY Battalion Chief Larry Blieka makes an appearance aboard the Southold fishing boat Margaret O’Leary

7/23/2024 Retired FDNY Battalion Chief Larry Blieka makes an appearance aboard the Southold fishing boat Margaret O’Leary

6/7/2024 Jerry and his brother Ray fishing the “Gut”. Caught a couple strippers and hightailed it out of there as It started getting a little crowded. Beautiful day on the water

8/2/2024 Fishing boat Mary Alice makes her first offshore trip 30 miles south of Montauk for an action packed day of tuna fishing. As we made our way back home, we ran across a pod of whales and dolphins that put on a spectacular show. Hope you enjoy the video

8/2/2024 The Mary Alice departed Montauk Harbor at 1:30am and set a course south, distance 30 miles. At 4:30am/gray light, half an hour before sunrise the crew had lines set and Captain Persnickety Pete set our trolling course. During the coarse of the day we alternated between trolling and jigging. We managed 2 smaller slot bluefin tuna and released several others. We had a larger tuna on, that might have been our larger slot bluefin, but we lost him. That’s why they call it fishing and not catching! Overall a great day fishing aboard the Mary Alice, complete with her new paint job and upgrades. On our way heading home approximately 10 miles south of the point, we stopped to view a pod of whales. There must’ve been 20 whales in a half mile radius and boy what a show they put on for us. As we laid dead in the water viewing their acrobatic show, two large humpback whales crossed our bow. Captain Pete backed down, to allow them safe passage. What a way to wrap up the day, amazing! Great boat, great captain, great crew! Hope you enjoyed the video

8/2/2024 The Mary Alice departed Montauk Harbor at 1:30am and set a course south, distance 30 miles. At 4:30am/gray light, half an hour before sunrise the crew had lines set and Captain Persnickety Pete set our trolling course. During the coarse of the day we alternated between trolling and jigging. We managed 2 smaller slot bluefin tuna and released several others. We had a larger tuna on, that might have been our larger slot bluefin, but we lost him. That’s why they call it fishing and not catching! Overall a great day fishing aboard the Mary Alice, complete with her new paint job and upgrades. On our way heading home approximately 10 miles south of the point, we stopped to view a pod of whales. There must’ve been 20 whales in a half mile radius and boy what a show they put on for us. As we laid dead in the water viewing their acrobatic show, two large humpback whales crossed our bow. Captain Pete backed down, to allow them safe passage. What a way to wrap up the day, amazing! Great boat, great captain, great crew! Hope you enjoyed the video

8/2/2024 The Mary Alice departed Montauk Harbor at 1:30am and set a course south, distance 30 miles. At 4:30am/gray light, half an hour before sunrise the crew had lines set and Captain Persnickety Pete set our trolling course. During the coarse of the day we alternated between trolling and jigging. We managed 2 smaller slot bluefin tuna and released several others. We had a larger tuna on, that might have been our larger slot bluefin, but we lost him. That’s why they call it fishing and not catching! Overall a great day fishing aboard the Mary Alice, complete with her new paint job and upgrades. On our way heading home approximately 10 miles south of the point, we stopped to view a pod of whales. There must’ve been 20 whales in a half mile radius and boy what a show they put on for us. As we laid dead in the water viewing their acrobatic show, two large humpback whales crossed our bow. Captain Pete backed down, to allow them safe passage. What a way to wrap up the day, amazing! Great boat, great captain, great crew! Hope you enjoyed the video

The Mary Alice departed Montauk Harbor at 1:30am and set a course south, distance 30 miles. At 4:30am/gray light, half an hour before sunrise the crew had lines set and Captain Persnickety Pete set our trolling course. During the coarse of the day we alternated between trolling and jigging. We managed 2 smaller slot bluefin tuna and released several others. We had a larger tuna on, that might have been our larger slot bluefin, but we lost him. That’s why they call it fishing and not catching! Overall a great day fishing aboard the Mary Alice, complete with her new paint job and upgrades. On our way heading home approximately 10 miles south of the point, we stopped to view a pod of whales. There must’ve been 20 whales in a half mile radius and boy what a show they put on for us. As we laid dead in the water viewing their acrobatic show, two large humpback whales crossed our bow. Captain Pete backed down, to allow them safe passage. What a way to wrap up the day, amazing! Great boat, great captain, great crew! Hope you enjoyed the video

6/28/2024 While speaking with my cousin Amy, I mentioned to her that we missed the family beach vacations. With that said her and Fernando invited us to their Jefferson County North Carolina Mountain house for the weekend where we celebrated Marie and Billy‘s birthdays. Marie knew we were coming, but Billy had no idea, it was a surprise. We rolled up playing “White Trash” by rapper Tom MacDonald. Thanks for the invite, we had a great time!

7/23/2024 Well, I finally got Larry Blieka aboard the Margaret O’Leary for some Northfork fishing. Thank God I don’t have a GoPro, and had to put the iPhone away during the netting operation. Three tries at the net, or was it four? You’ll hear some laughing in the video as I had to put the phone in my pocket. Funny stuff! We managed a couple short fluke, none of which were keepers, and this short stripper shown in the video. Great day underwater!

7/23/2024 Retired FDNY Chief Larry Blieka teamed up with Tom’s Guide Service today. The weather report was a little bit different than the weather we dealt with today. I knew we’d be fishing the flood tide, but thought we’d be looking at light variable winds. That was not the case, we had 15 mile an hour winds out of the east, same direction as the current. We deploy a sea anchor and still used 10 ounce weights. We managed a bunch of short fluke and one striper measuring 27 inches, which was returned, as it wasn’t within the 28 inch to 31 inch slot. Great day on the water, with a couple firehouse stories to boot.

7/21/2024 Matt Ketchum of Peconic Gold Oysters loading up his work boat

7/13/2025 We were underway from Goldsmiths Marina around 7:30pm complete with two hero’s and beverages from Roma Pizzeria in Cutchogue. We travelled east about 1.5 miles in Shelter Islands North Channel and rounded Conklin Point where we set anchor in Pipes Cove. From the Margaret O’Leary we watched a breathtaking fireworks display. Hope you enjoyed the video

7/10/2024 Captain Phil is one of Long Island’s Northfork Fisherman. In the early 80s, I’m guessing 1980-82, Captain Phil served aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Woodrush WLB-407 home-ported in Sitka, Alaska. I served aboard the Woodrush also, but departed shortly before his arrival. My guess, is that while Captain Phil was stationed in Alaska he got the idea to start smoking fish. That’s only my guess, you’ll have to ask him. So if you find yourself in East Hampton, New York, keep an eye out for Captain Phil at one of the local markets. Hope you enjoyed the video.

7/5/2024 Sailing Schooner westbound enroute Greenport NY

7/5/2024 Sailing Schooner Bonnie Lynn West Of Bug Light heading back to Greenport

7/2/2024 My friend Brendan Fogerty harvested some clams for a family get together in Jefferson, North Carolina that we attended. The small littleneck clams, we used for dinner one evening, and the bigger ones I just got around to shucking today. The cherrystone clams I will use for linguine clam sauce tonight, and the chowders I will salt and use for bait. Shout out to the Ohio/North Carolina Crowd, we had a great time in the North Carolina Mountains. Thanks for viewing

6/25/2024 Joey D into a nice Stripper aboard the Nancy Ann. Thanks for sending us home with fish Joe!