White Caps In The Bay While Fishing

by John Telfer

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White Caps In The Bay While Fishing

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John Telfer

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FAA WATERCOLOR MARK DOES NOT APPEAR ON FINAL SALES
While fishing in Manhassett Bay, New York, located on the north shore of Long Island for some blues and stripers on a charter fishing boat, we decided to stay within the Bay as the bait fish were running from the Long Island Sound right into the Bay and right behind them were large Blues and Stripers. As we began to set our anchor the Bay became unusaully rough as between the tide rushing in and the winds picking up we found ourselves getting smashed on both sides of the boat by large white caps that were unusually high for this area and were hitting the boat and splashing us pretty good, along with throwing the boat in the air with the swells and dropping us down. We stayed for about another hour and a half trying to fight off the white caps and swells and set our lines but between the winds and the rough water that was developing it was impossible so we pulled up anchor and made a short day of it. Manhasset Bay, New York, is an embayment in western Long Island off Long Island Sound. Manhasset Bay forms the northeastern boundary of the Great Neck Peninsula and the southwestern boundary of Cow Neck (Port Washington Peninsula or Manhasset Neck). On the north side of the bay there are three points, Barker Point at the entrance, Plum Point coming the furthest into the Bay, and Tom's Point in the back bay. On the other side, Hewlett Point forms the entrance nearly a mile from Barker Point.[1] Hart Island lies in the Sound just outside the mouth of Manhasset Bay.
The Manhasset Bay area was first inhabited in the 17th century by the Matinecook tribe of Algonquin Indians.[2] Then the Dutch and the English settled around the bay in the 17th century because of the proximity of fish. The Bay was called Schout's Bay by the Dutch, and then Howe's Bay by the English.[3] Subsequently, due to the presence of cattle raising, it came to be called Cow Bay, and the local neck, to the northeast, "Cow Neck". It finally became Manhasset Bay in 1907.
In the 1920s it began to switch from the cow-and-fish industry to support services for commercial boating[3], as it is considered to be one of the best harbors on Long Island Sound with little tidal current except at the entrance and average tidal displacement of only six feet.[4] By the 1980s it was full of marinas and yacht clubs. The Sands Point Seaplane Base on Manhasset Bay was at one time the main airport for passenger service between New York and Europe. At the beginning of the 21st century, it had about 16% of all the marinas and yacht clubs in the whole of Long Island Sound.
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June 15th, 2012

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